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Splunk Enterprise Review
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is super easy to deploy, use, and allows users to easily and efficiently manage systems and networks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Email alerts are only as good as the people that receive them, which can render the tool not as useful if there are the only alerts created.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to efficiently manage risk within technology systems and applications.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
People still matter! Don’t rely only on the system alerts generated by Splunk. Continue to investigate and any and all anomalies.
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Splunk for Data Analytics
What do you like best about the product?
Robust features and adaptability and ease of customization
What do you dislike about the product?
There was a bit of a learning urge for new users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working in a group that supports and troubleshoots issues for a large number of users, we needed an application that would allow us to view and predict issues that surfaced. We had no way to find root cause within our division. Splunk allowed us to pool data from critical services and analyze it to gain insight on issues and proactively find issues.
Splunk Enterprise Log Hunter
What do you like best about the product?
Searching for specific logs with multiple sources is great! Narrowing by timeframes is excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
Log retrieval can be lengthy if looking for over 30 days.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Checking firewall logs and user logs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Setup sources and background data carefully.
Awesome software very easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, UI’s are awesome, simple user focused application, reduces data management time. Exports are clean and able to be shared with customers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up new applications within splunk, sometimes this is tedious, but over all not too bad.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data management and reporting
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it to its full potential
Help with your deep dive
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can create a dashboard for the specific report that I need to pull
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I find that splunk if offline or is not capturing complete information
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving frequently locked out users and are able to pinpoint the location
Reliable, flexible, feature rich but quite hard to learn.
What do you like best about the product?
- UI options for data visualization are good. Quite flexible charts.
- Transactions feature is really great (even though hard to know it even exists).
- Alerting is extremely useful and very reliable.
- Transactions feature is really great (even though hard to know it even exists).
- Alerting is extremely useful and very reliable.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Slow and sluggish.
- GUI not quickly responsive.
- Proprietary query language not intuitive. Steep learning curve.
- GUI not quickly responsive.
- Proprietary query language not intuitive. Steep learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Metrics, Monitoring, Alerting, Analysis
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Splunk does its job but it requires an investment in that the learning curve is not flat. It has its own query language. Most features require studying to even know they are there. Regardless it is for sure a powerful tool once learnt.
Splunk everything
What do you like best about the product?
Powerful tool yet easy to learn, configure and manage.
User community is very active and a great resource for questions and help with any issues one might encounter.
User community is very active and a great resource for questions and help with any issues one might encounter.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike. Support is readily available, either from Splunk or the user community, should there be any issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Splunk gives us the capability to monitor anything and everything that needs to be monitored. It also provides an easy way to correlate events from various sources and come up with a complete picture status of the system or applications.
Useful but clunky
What do you like best about the product?
You can query a lot of different types of data.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's slow and learning the language is not intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Seeing what APIs are being hit
Analyzed you data
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is a very simple and easy to use tool that Helps you and your team to analyze the information. Any data from network, servers, application. etc.
The best part I like about Splunk is that it is easy to deploy.
You can a simple utility call Splunk lite to push your data from your servers to the main Splunk engine.
The way Splunk indexes your data is very good. Which in returns good analytic results.
The report created by Splunk is very accurate. which helps my company to determine the improvement we need to do in our infrastructure.
The pricing model is very simple and reasonable.
They have very good well written online Knowledgebase articles to help use Splunk to its full use.
The best part I like about Splunk is that it is easy to deploy.
You can a simple utility call Splunk lite to push your data from your servers to the main Splunk engine.
The way Splunk indexes your data is very good. Which in returns good analytic results.
The report created by Splunk is very accurate. which helps my company to determine the improvement we need to do in our infrastructure.
The pricing model is very simple and reasonable.
They have very good well written online Knowledgebase articles to help use Splunk to its full use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The trial version of Splunk is very limited it only gives 500 MB do daily data indexing. As a result, it may prevent you to get an insight of all the potential you can get through Splunk.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Splunk helps me and my team to analyze customer log data and helps us to find our pointers of the actual problem. This in return helps us to get back to our customer much quicker, thus improving overall customer satisfaction, better quality of work and improved work process.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely a good tool for your enterprise. If you would like to improve quality of your current process.
Immense information available
What do you like best about the product?
Customization of queries allows us to retrieve detailed information - ability to extract information and quickly view it or export it for future reference or to provide to the customer
What do you dislike about the product?
Not clear enough if query is not formatted properly; needs more feedback and to be more responsive when customers are trying to search to save us time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retrieving data/activity logs for customers to help troubleshoot; realized benefits are that certain inputs allow us to retrieve extremely specific information
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