Splunk Cloud [Private Offer Only]

I have been working in my current field for two years.

My use cases for Splunk Cloud Platform  involve various applications that enhance data management and security.

I use it to streamline operations and improve analytics.

What I appreciate most about Splunk Cloud Platform  is its intuitive user interface, which makes navigation and data analysis efficient.

It has a favorite feature in its reporting capabilities, allowing me to generate insightful reports easily.

What I find challenging about Splunk Cloud Platform is that it occasionally has a steep learning curve for new users.

The platform could improve by offering more comprehensive onboarding resources and tutorials.

I have been working with Splunk Cloud Platform for six to eight months.

Regarding stability, Splunk Cloud Platform performs well with minimal lagging or crashing issues.

Regarding scalability, I find that Splunk Cloud Platform is highly scalable, accommodating growing data needs without major issues.

I have had to contact technical support for Splunk Cloud Platform before, and my experience was quite positive.

If I were to put the technical support on a scale from one to ten, I would rate it an eight for the support.

The initial deployment of Splunk Cloud Platform was somewhat challenging but manageable.

It had complexities that required careful configuration.

As for alternatives, I have used other data analytics tools before, but none quite match the capabilities of Splunk Cloud Platform.

I definitely prefer Splunk Cloud Platform more due to its superior features and support.

I think the app ecosystem for Splunk Cloud Platform is robust, and managing updates within this app ecosystem is relatively easy.

Splunk Cloud Platform's visibility into multiple environments offers excellent monitoring capabilities, whether I am using it in the cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid environments.

I leverage it primarily for cloud infrastructure.

Regarding Splunk Cloud Platform's zero-setup feature for AI models, my impression is that it is truly innovative and simplifies the integration of AI into my workflow, although I have not used it extensively.

Regarding the pricing, I think Splunk Cloud Platform is on the higher end, but the value it provides justifies the cost.

I would rate this product an eight overall.

I used Splunk Cloud Platform  for seven years. We built use cases for one of our pharma customers, Regeneron Pharmaceutical from the US. We created numerous use cases for their operations, including keeping medical records with details about medicine inventory, doctor information, and many other elements that we stored and presented.

I appreciate the expansion capability of Splunk Cloud Platform . We can forward any kind of data to the cloud endpoint that they provide. This allows us to forward any kind of traffic to that endpoint. There is no need for maintenance. If an error occurs or Splunk health is not good, we can raise a support case and they will handle everything. There is no need to maintain infrastructure either, as they keep the infrastructure very stable, which is a good thing.

If you want to make Splunk Cloud Platform more reliable, there will be some issues. For example, if you want to allow some IP or renew some certificates, you need to raise a case and it will not be immediate. It will go through the process and take three to four days. Sometimes, the technical support case persons are not sufficiently technical. I have experienced this where they are not technical enough or not understanding the issues.

The app ecosystem is good, but if you want to upgrade any kind of apps or receive support related to the app, you mostly need to raise a support case and the Splunk team will handle it. However, if there is a problem with your custom apps that you need to deploy on an indexer, that becomes an issue. You can upload it from the search head, but sometimes there are DMC issues. DMC mostly fails sometimes, so we cannot deploy from the search head cluster or indexer. For custom apps, you need to go through all of these processes, which involves a lot of process.

I used Splunk Cloud Platform for seven years.

Stability with Splunk Cloud Platform is very stable. Sometimes we face an issue with latency. For example, when we are ingesting 10 TB of data and there is a sudden increase, we need to increase the storage at the cloud end. Sometimes this will take time because it is not on our end but on the cloud end. That is the only issue. Everything else is good.

Splunk Cloud Platform is very flexible in terms of scalability. If you purchase something initially and later have increased requirements, they can scale up and scale down your environment. That is one good feature. We just need to raise a simple support case, and based on that support case, they will scale up and down our environment. That is good.

I reached out to technical support many times regarding operations. If you want to perform any kind of operations, you need to reach out to the technical support. They are very good and their responsiveness is fine. Everything is good. However, as I mentioned, sometimes they might not have proper knowledge or sometimes they are not sufficiently technical. They are not understanding sometimes.

I used New Relic  for log collection. However, New Relic  is not a part of Splunk. It is a very limited scope product, not widely used like Splunk. There is no competitor to Splunk in the current market right now.

I do not think we need to do anything for initial setup. We just need to request the cloud team, and they will prepare an instance and everything for us, and they will give us a URL to access the cloud. After that, you need to allow firewall access based on what is in your company. That is all. Then you can access the environment. It is very simple and we do not need to configure anything.

Maintenance is not required at all in the cloud. A team of four or five people is more than enough to handle the full cloud infrastructure. I managed the cloud around 10 TB ingestion per day with only four or five people. That is more than enough because we do not need to take care of hardware and other components. However, if you have on-premises, then you need more than 30 people to maintain all of the parts.

Splunk Cloud Platform pricing is very costly. If we did it on-premises, it would be cheaper because we would just need to purchase a license. However, Splunk Cloud Platform is very costly. But if you use it properly, then you can get value from it. Maintaining an infrastructure on-premises would be expensive as well.

Splunk Cloud Platform pricing is very costly. If we did it on-premises, it would be cheaper because we would just need to purchase a license. However, Splunk Cloud Platform is very costly. But if you use it properly, then you can get value from it. Maintaining an infrastructure on-premises would be expensive as well.

Visibility with Splunk Cloud Platform is very good. We do not use only cloud because we have a heavy forwarder at our end that will forward the data. This is a hybrid deployment on our end. If you have on-premises only, then everything is on you. With on-premises, we have full visibility of the environment, including what is indexer and what is search head. However, in the cloud, we do not know where this is deploying. They are saying that they are deploying only on AWS . If something goes wrong with AWS , then our full Splunk Cloud Platform goes down. For enterprise on-premises, we have full visibility and can see what is affected and other details. Visibility is less in cloud and more in on-premises. I have not tried that feature. My overall rating for this product is 9.

I use Splunk Cloud Platform  for both IT alerting and incident management in my training.

I use it to find threats and strange behavior of applications or networking. I mostly use it for networking, strange processes, and behaviors. I use the alerting mechanism.

I appreciate the syntax that Splunk Cloud Platform  uses because it is not KQL.

The whole product is really good, and I did not have much difficulty using it. The alerting mechanism is good to have, but in my personal training, I did not use it much because I did not need it that much.

The visualization feature in Splunk Cloud Platform is a pretty good feature because I did not need to go to any other vendors, for example, any.run or VirusTotal . This speeds the whole investigation up.

It is worth reconsidering the syntax language and changing it to KQL. The company would benefit from using the KQL language in queries. Pricing would be better.

My experience with Splunk Cloud Platform is three months.

I have not heard a lot of problems or disconnections, so I think nine is correct. That is also nine.

From what I heard, the technical support is pretty decent, so eight is okay.

I have tried Elastic, Sentinel , and I think that is all.

I cannot tell if the deployment is easy or complex. I cannot tell how long it took to deploy because I did not deploy it. I just started the session, and everything was already prepared for me.

I had some tasks to find, such as some strange processes. That was one big task to perform on Splunk Cloud Platform system. There were several of these tasks, but that was an example.

I have not tried the machine learning tools yet. I did not integrate Splunk Cloud Platform with any tools. In my case, it is just me using the solution, but I know the whole platform because I am using Cyber Defender platform for learning. The whole platform has a lot of people, but in my case, it is only me.

I cannot tell if it requires any maintenance, but I do not think it is really rough to do it.

My overall review rating for Splunk Cloud Platform is eight.

In the data and analytics domain, I work with Splunk Cloud Platform  where we handle system logs and large scale data. I use Splunk Cloud Platform  to monitor applications. I analyze logs and then build dashboards that provide real time insight for our technical team.

Splunk Cloud Platform is fully managed, so we do not need to handle infrastructure. The next thing I appreciate is its powerful search using SPL. It is easy to build dashboards in Splunk Cloud Platform and its visualization is also solid.

The alerting mechanisms of Splunk Cloud Platform have definitely helped in proactive issue resolution. Alerting is one of the most prominent features of Splunk Cloud Platform because we have set numerous alerts for daily ingestions. Health monitoring of Splunk dashboards is another valuable feature. We have alerts for thresholds, alerts for users, and alerts for failed logons. For example, if someone is trying to log in more than five times and failing, we have alerts for that as well. This is very useful for us.

Machine learning tools of Splunk Cloud Platform have helped to predict trends in our data. Using machine learning libraries, it is easy for us to analyze data and predict our upcoming data. This makes it pretty straightforward for us in daily operations using the machine learning toolkit.

One aspect I dislike about Splunk Cloud Platform is that cost can become high as data ingestion increases. The initial learning curve for SPL and cloud setup is also difficult for some new beginners.

I have been using Splunk Cloud Platform for the past one year.

Regarding stability, Splunk Cloud Platform does not lag or crash. It is highly scalable and stable for us.

Splunk Cloud Platform is very scalable for us because we conduct day-to-day operations in Splunk Cloud Platform itself. We are increasing our team both horizontally and vertically.

The technical support regarding Splunk Cloud Platform is good because they are always helpful. Whenever there is an upgrade, we notify them and they upgrade it for us. Everything is straightforward and simple with them. So far, we have had no issues with them.

Since Splunk Cloud Platform is a fully managed service, there is no need to handle servers, upgrades, or maintenance. Everything is managed by Splunk, which makes it pretty straightforward for us to use and complete every everyday task. There is no infrastructure management required and it enables faster development. It is highly scalable for us.

For new users, my advice is that if you are looking for a SIEM  tool and you can afford it, then Splunk Cloud Platform is the best SIEM  tool you can use because it is highly scalable and solves our day-to-day operations and use case. Everything is available within a single platform. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.