The solution has enabled us to be more proactive, so we can identify and respond to an issue before there is a failure
What is our primary use case?
We use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to get an overview of what's happening in our customers' infrastructure. We're monitoring our servers, network, IoT devices, etc. We're a service provider, so the solution is installed in one place.
How has it helped my organization?
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has enabled us to be more proactive. We can identify and respond to an issue before there is a failure. It has helped us significantly. For example, if somebody is attacking us we can detect that there is an increase in traffic and investigate to see if it's legitimate. We can block them or take other actions before it becomes a problem.
What is most valuable?
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring gives us complete visibility without the need for storage. We can visualize our infrastructure. Where is the traffic going? Are there any attacks? What are our vulnerabilities?
What needs improvement?
Splunk could be better integrated with configuration manager solutions so we can automatically resolve issues without human interference.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have used Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring since 2015.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Splunk is scalable. It's easy to add more devices as needed.
How are customer service and support?
I rate Splunk support an eight out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before Splunk, we used multiple vendors, including Cisco, SolarWinds NPM, and WhatsUp Gold.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment process isn't complicated. We installed Splunk on a VM and started it. We have a team to deploy and monitor it.
What was our ROI?
Splunk is worth the investment. When an incident happens, you need reports immediately, and Splunk is the best monitoring solution for this.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Splunk is expensive, but it's the best solution for the job.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring a nine out of ten. Splunk is a responsive piece of software. It's user-friendly and easy to get the data you need. I advise people to take the time to learn how to create reports and analytics.
Splunk Observability Cloud
What do you like best about the product?
It utilises great intelligence for monitoring, one can find out the logs for other third party involvments also.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lenghty process involved for the outcome in searching of logs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Logs from different platforms are correlated qnd the results one xan see in a very user friendly manner.
Splunk Observability Cloud Review
What do you like best about the product?
I loved the user experience while using Splunk Observability Cloud. Everything is well situated and easily searchable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The AI assisted troubleshooting is not always accurate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Splunk Log Observer helps investigate infrastructure logs in minutes instead of hours. It provides nice graphical representation of Logs.
Splunk Observability
What do you like best about the product?
It is helpful to a certain extent. It helps in correlation, drilling down the events from raw logs. Its search index is very helpful in hunting.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hunting for any event is slightly tedious process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping in anlysing the queries and the events.
Splunkd
What do you like best about the product?
Centralized log management for all windows, Linux, network logs
What do you dislike about the product?
Splunk IT Cloud doesn't have anything to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Centralized log management tool to store the historical logs.
Splunk IT cloud with Azure
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk IT cloud seems very helpful while working on Azure cloud. Redis data, response time, cpu and memory for the required data helps alot in monitoring. Writing query and river flow structure monitoring seems helpful to me in comparison to other monitoring tools
What do you dislike about the product?
Cribil changes has always troubled me. Also sometimes, creating query with rex has little issues. Main trouble is regex while creating my own field doesn't seems to be working proper as I did yesterday.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring over the other tools is quite not familiar and flexible for the users. Data for each second gives you good view and clearance regarding the logs in performance testing. So it is actually helping much better
Amazing product.
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk dashboards having deep insights of issues in applications and can be integrated with multiple applications
What do you dislike about the product?
It's little costly and training's are not available on topic based.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The best feature of splunk real user monitoring are finding issues easily and fixing them
Splunk Observability Cloud (SignalFX) - All in one solution for Cloud Apps
What do you like best about the product?
The best feature of Splunk Observability cloud is providing the traces of the application in near real-time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Less Log retention time becoz after sometime some if the traces are not available for post mortem
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Splunk Observability Cloud is kind of one-stop solution for application monitoring by providing traces and giving multiple aspects of the app by simply setting up dashboards, which helps us to give a 360 degree view of the cloud app and infra. This helps us to give a thorough check of the Cloud related issues and take corrective actions.
Splunk is my go to tool for all things observabilty!
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk observabilty cloud enables me to get detailed insights and analytics. We have relied on its intelligent alerting for all our applications. Splunk also provides efficient logging capabilities!
What do you dislike about the product?
The main concern for me is the cost. Splunk tends to get very expensive for large application logging. Since many applications ingest large amounts of data, Splunk increases the overall expenditure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Splunk is the go to place to get an overview of the end to end application stack and especially for a micro services driven architecture, Splunk enables to track the flow E2E. Another biggest problem Splunk helps solve is troubleshooting! Due to its immaculate logging and alerting, troubleshooting becomes easy.
Empowering Insights, Simplifying Troubleshooting with Splunk Observability Cloud
What do you like best about the product?
In the world of log monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting, Splunk Observability Cloud is a great tool.
It combines the greatest aspects of in-the-moment log analysis, individualized alerts and communication tools, enabling IT teams to proactively handle issues and enhance system performance.
Splunk Observability Cloud has is an essential tool for any organization serious about managing the health and performance of its systems with its straightforward user interface and unrivaled scalability.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although the platform offers a good selection of pre-built dashboards and visualizations.
creating customised visualizations may sometimes require a significant amount of work and skill in the Splunk query language. It's bit tedious to learn initially for a new user
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping us daily monitor the applications any change in Infra or application server is notified and it helps in solving and identifying problem beforehand and give a good expirience to end user using application