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Machine data management and analytics
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Rohit V.
Primary/Secondary Education,
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The product installation is simple and easy to understand. The configuration of this product for a multi-node cluster is intuitive and easy to learn. Automatic suggestions popup while filtering over indexed data.
In case of analytics, there should be at least 2000 entries.
GOBINATH G.
Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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It is used to monitor the application and alert us for any issues. We can track security rated issue's
Splunk gives data analytics on the application usage. And it is great tool to monitor software applications
Users need to learn SPL search processing language
Md Muhibbul C.
Computer Software, 10,001+ employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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Excellent. I would be more interested with learning Splunk Machine learning tool as well as using it's cloud support in AWS or Hadoop based applications
Extensive support for creating dashboard, ability to write queries to capture application logs and support to automate alert system along with Service Now incident creation.
Sometimes cause issue to create false alert or miss alert because of the difference of fraction of seconds in data.
Jyostna S.
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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it has got a very stable search engine and teh results are almost automatic and takes no time
- easy queries - Robust -Never fails -Resilient - easy to use and alert configurations based on the resultants and error queries
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Anonymous Reviewer
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Information Technology and Services, self-employed
Used other for less than 6 months
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We aggregated security logs and transnational data into Splunk to combat fraud to much success. Highly recommend trying it out.
The best part about Splunk is that it is incredibly flexible. Any type of log can be aggregated and its awesome to build correlation. Any thing you want to know from your data can be found with Splunk.
The ability of Splunk comes at a cost, literally. There is a free edition but if you are using it in an enterprise environment, especially if there is more than one department uses it, it will be pricey. However given the functionality its still a good value for many enterprises.
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Banking, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I use Splunk at work place to track log files and investigate Production issues.
I like the speed and ease to search contents.
i think cost is a factor for some organizations
Anindita B.
Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used monthly for 2+ years
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It gives us proper logging data for any product and also the fact that it shows data on a timely basis. Also can import data.
Nothing to be specific, it can be made for interactive maybe
Shahab V.
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Splunk is an easy to navigate, search and monitor data.
Bad customer service. Was once locked out of my account and never got back in.
Tommaso B.
Financial Services,
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I like the ease of use and installation, and how processes large amounts of data
I think the price for the amount of data handled is too high
Stephanie N.
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This has been a very valuable tool for my company. It's well thought out from security to usability. I feel I'm not getting full use due to the lack of support and training resources/references available.
Beautiful design, that makes event logs fun. Intuitive design.
Repetitive adjustments, I wish you could save a default time format. Resources.
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Telecommunications, 1,001-5,000 employees
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Splunk is amazing, but you need to have : the use case, the platform, the logs and a team to use it
With Splunk, sky is the limit, this is also a disadvantage, you have too many possibilities
Very hard and complex to configure, be ready to have sleepless nights !
Nazeer S.
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Splunk is nice tool to analyze the logs, visualize the transaction, creating auto alerts, creating Splunk's Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, creating dashboards. It is very powerful to analyze the logs. Splunk performance gets impacted if we search for data over a long period of time. License is bit costly.
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Sumant M.
Computer Software,
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It is easy to use for a novice person. Results are fast. Great product with handy features. You can get insight about your data within few clicks.
I did not find the documentation really much useful as a student. Usage cost was really high for me.
Nakul S.
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We used Splunk as a 'google for our app logs'. It worked very well, the only problem was that our budget could afford only so much GBs of logs and every now and then we had to flush the logs.
simple and easy
costly
Ajit D.
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I have used the software as a developer, architect, DevOps manager, Business Applications user and implemented in several use cases for multiple organizations. Splunk always deliers
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Suresh P.
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Splunk is a such a cool tool. trust me, it makes everyone life so easy. Once you get access to it, you will start rocking with that tool.
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Anonymous Reviewer
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Used monthly for 6-12 months
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Splunk gathers a ton of information. It detects just about anything you want to know when it is configured.
Creating reports that will display the information you need is challenging and the output format could be improved upon.
Juan N.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for less than 6 months
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In general I think is a powerful tool but a little confusing to use at the beginning although I really enjoyed the fact that I was able to installed it in Linux, not every BI tool that I've tried will let you do that.
The charts and visualizations that you can create in general have a good look and it has the minimum functionalities expected as a user (export, filtering, search, etc), I spent some time trying to understand the interface and functionalities but once I started to load some data and use the search I was able to see the capabilities of the product.
I did not like the limitations of the free version like the size of the data you can upload but I guess is still fair to be able to use it for free.
Ankit S.
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Telecommunications,
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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1. Easy to deploy 2. Lot of plugins are available which simplify monitoring work 3. Good readable logs
I will not recommend it for the larger systems due to it's complexity, in smaller systems it works well.
Alex L.
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We used Splunk as part of our compliance and delivery for email marketing. The tool itself requires some industry knowledge and a day or two of hands-on training, however, once you get the hang of it's pretty easy and very useful in order to dig into consumer/user data.
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Tanuvir S.
Management Consulting,
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The product is neat and simple to use with a great customer support
Nothing much, maybe the pricing model. Other than that, I think it's a great product
Denham M.
Biotechnology, 11-50 employees
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Great visibility, and deep info good reporting.
Setup and configuration, to get onboarded makes me reconsider the software.
Parag M.
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering,
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Nice analytics UI. Nice support system. Healthy user community.
The amount of time it takes to load, performance-wise could be better
Anonymous Reviewer
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Wholesale, 501-1,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 6 months
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Enables me to monitor for fraud and cyber security threats and risks
It is great to use but it is expensive. But worth it.