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Positive experience using Splunk
What do you like best about the product?
Relatively light weight and quick. Fairly easy to use and navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Expensive. Bit of a learning curve with querying
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to problem solve issues in production through quickly querying logs
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Fully featured and performant
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk provides a convenient mechanism for gathering numerous system and software logs. The ability to search historical and real-time logs is a key capability for our monitoring. The custom field extraction and reporting are also a great feature for analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
Splunk relies on a Perl-based regular expression structure. I can regex just about anything I want in a python regex and routinely am frustrated by Splunk's support of only Perl regex. This translates into a lot of lost time trying to figure out how to get my custom field extract to extract only what I want extracted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We see benefits in two key areas.
First, automatic detection and notification of errors in our volumes of logs. With a distributed system churning out logs from numerous components, it is impossible for a human to review those logs, detect anomalies, and correlate errors across them. With the use of Splunk Enterprise, we are able to set up intelligent searches that detect error custom error conditions and generate alerts to our operators for triage.
Second, a significant reduction in effort to perform analysis of software performance and usage. Through adding custom log messages in our software and custom field extraction in Splunk, we are able to generate detailed performance information that can be viewed in real-time or over custom historical periods. Similarly we are able to analyze our logs to determine how our system is being used. These features are critical to our operations and are a huge cost savings in time and effort.
First, automatic detection and notification of errors in our volumes of logs. With a distributed system churning out logs from numerous components, it is impossible for a human to review those logs, detect anomalies, and correlate errors across them. With the use of Splunk Enterprise, we are able to set up intelligent searches that detect error custom error conditions and generate alerts to our operators for triage.
Second, a significant reduction in effort to perform analysis of software performance and usage. Through adding custom log messages in our software and custom field extraction in Splunk, we are able to generate detailed performance information that can be viewed in real-time or over custom historical periods. Similarly we are able to analyze our logs to determine how our system is being used. These features are critical to our operations and are a huge cost savings in time and effort.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Splunk is an excellent solution for simple to complex systems for log retention and analysis.
Used everyday for 3 years
What do you like best about the product?
It's extremely fast, and reasonably easy to use. Dashboards can be setup to work in realtime, which is fantastic for tracking live events.
Responsive service and generally updates were good.
Responsive service and generally updates were good.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not quite fully fledged as a database tool, or our version wasn't anyway. Sub-searches had a 10k limit, so that was occasionally a problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly used to test the product beacons are working properly, and for any live events analysis.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a straightforward front end which should be suitable for most purposes.
Handy tool to spot errors in logs
What do you like best about the product?
The search query that uses wildcards , filters and time sorting
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that you can't extract the full stack trace , or view the log file containing the error at the exact timestamp
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When a hosted customer reports an issue, I save time by not going through all the log files for each server, but I just look for a specific key word in spline to extract the exceptions
Splunk occasional user
What do you like best about the product?
The quality of data that stores within splunk and can be searched in so many different ways. It's the only way we can take very granular customer data and pull it to analyze.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not user-friendly if you're non technical. You have to learn how to operate Splunk in the way it reads and that's not intuitive at first.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to keep track of customer data for a longer period of time and be able to store the massive amount of data that requires outside of our system.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Large cost, it's worthwhile to make sure you need large amounts of data stored outside of your product/data warehouse and the cost/benefit analysis is worth that. Also need to make sure users at your company are aware of how to use this tool which requires some time and effort.
Splunk is very handy when it comes to tackling Production issues.
What do you like best about the product?
Its so intuitive and you can search based on so many different criterion, like request ID, hostname etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Haven't explored it in that much depth that I would dislike anything about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work in Mobile Solutions team and it helps me identify upstream issues in my app.
Best tool for log management
What do you like best about the product?
Best tool to analyze the application logs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need easier and intuitive way to dashboard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Splunk to analyze the logs from more than 400 retail stores. It makes our life much more easy to analyze and alert us on any potential issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best tool if you need a good tool to analyze and alert on your logs.
A great performance analysis product
What do you like best about the product?
One of the most common problems when working in medium or large companies is to be able to analyze certain types of cases and certain problems occurred in a given period, however, without knowing what was causing the problem because certain items and factors may be manifold due to the use of different technologies involved simultaneously on the same subject or on the same transaction.
Inside a complex infrastructure is not easy to analyze which single component (for example, application, database, server, network device, etc..) was the cause of a problem often it requires analysis by different departments, thanks to the use of Splunk the control management and the analysis of the issues is centralized in one software.
The analysis are facilitated through the use of various detailed dashboards.
Very convenient are the automatic alerts and triggers.
Inside a complex infrastructure is not easy to analyze which single component (for example, application, database, server, network device, etc..) was the cause of a problem often it requires analysis by different departments, thanks to the use of Splunk the control management and the analysis of the issues is centralized in one software.
The analysis are facilitated through the use of various detailed dashboards.
Very convenient are the automatic alerts and triggers.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost of the product is high.
The usability for novice users is not really easy, but reading a little bit of documentation and studying a bit the syntax of the search the user is able to do a lot of query.
The usability for novice users is not really easy, but reading a little bit of documentation and studying a bit the syntax of the search the user is able to do a lot of query.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By using Splunk we can monitor several different technologies and network equipment, the activities of the databases etc. via Splunk has been possible to determine the cause of a fault at a given moment.
Splunk Use
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use. Help documentation . Online resources.
What do you dislike about the product?
Has a bit of a learning curve. Limited number of experts available in the market.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application access management . Network Management and vulnerability management . Training programs are also limited.
Really good for identifying the production issues
What do you like best about the product?
Every time when we have production issues, the 1st thing is to open the splunk and check the error messages.
The other feature is also nice: keep tracking the production environment health status periodically. We did find some potential issues which our client did not report and fix them before our clients finding.
The other feature is also nice: keep tracking the production environment health status periodically. We did find some potential issues which our client did not report and fix them before our clients finding.
What do you dislike about the product?
The way of displaying the error log sometimes take time to scroll it when opening the item.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Checking the production health status.
Quickly identifing the errors
Quickly identifing the errors
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Quickly identifing the errors, periodically checking the production health status and performance. It works really well
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