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Splunk is Made for Ops!
What do you like best about the product?
It's scalable. We started with a small standalone installation with a very small data set. Over time, we grew our Splunk environment to a clustered multi-site installation that is used by multiple departments.
What do you dislike about the product?
As your installation matures, understanding the intricacies of how Splunk *works* will require full-time attention (and manpower). Folder structure, permissions, and app installations, as well as keeping up with the dizzying release schedule will require some time devoted to Splunk.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Splunk for operations reporting, monitoring, and analytics.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Plan out your deployment fully before you start. It's somewhat easy to scale, but it's easier to get it right the first time.
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Best enterprise solution for querying data
What do you like best about the product?
- Ability to query data
- Dashboards
- Different modes to query data, this helps decide how much information you choose to see which at times is useful when reviewing several days worth of logs.
- Ease of use
- Flexibility for the most part,
- Dashboards
- Different modes to query data, this helps decide how much information you choose to see which at times is useful when reviewing several days worth of logs.
- Ease of use
- Flexibility for the most part,
What do you dislike about the product?
- Unable to query data past 30 days, but this looks like a limit imposed by my employer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Log Analysis
- Dashboards
- Charts
- Splunk is one of many tools we use to help us capture key information with not only data but also meta data, this proves to be real helpfull when investigating client side issues.
- Dashboards
- Charts
- Splunk is one of many tools we use to help us capture key information with not only data but also meta data, this proves to be real helpfull when investigating client side issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
- Great software for log analysis
Excellent Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is simple and clean, the amount of sort features on the log results is fantastic
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a bit slow in running queries and also doesn’t always capture the data it’s supposed to
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Software integration issues in XML
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Continue to explore and create queries
Excellent Dashboard
What do you like best about the product?
Extremely powerful tool combining analytics from different sources, multiple dashboard views
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard to say anything negative. Works great for our application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data analytics
Good tool for log analysis
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to visualize all logs from Various server instances.
What do you dislike about the product?
I donot dislike anything about the splunk
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
E2E order tracing across various layers
Monitoring Network Traffic with Splunk
What do you like best about the product?
I like Splunk's speed when querying millions of logs to find specific data points. Combined with the online support pages that help with any type of query, Splunk makes searching through data easy. Additionally, the ability to start a search and have it sent via email upon completion allows for productivity to increase due to the fact that I do not have to sit around waiting for my query to complete. Lastly, the export feature is extremely convenient for digging through large amounts of data easily in Excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you click to expand a search result and then attempt to scroll while this result is still expanded, you will get yanked back up to that result repeatedly until it is closed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been able to verify the number of users that are using each route out to the internet, and then use that information to determine the use of one system vs. the other (i.e. proxy traffic vs. firewall traffic). This allowed me to solve the problem of bottlenecks on one by focusing more traffic through the other. The benefits of this change are increased speed for users and more safety of our information and systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Splunk Enterprise will change the way that an organization is able to look through its traffic logs. A search of millions of records takes very little time, and each query can be customized to find and show only what the user wants.
Analytics for the rest of us
What do you like best about the product?
Practical data ingestion implementation, multiple data sources and types.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still editing config files without version control?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Manufacturing related problems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do your homework and quantify business impacts when dealing with systemic problems.
Splunk has been a great platform to learn, support, and use at my company.
What do you like best about the product?
From the users sides, it is a single platform that can provide everything a company needs without needing to go between different platforms that host different bits and pieces of the data needed to support a customer facing service. From the support side, my day job, it is very easy to built out new environments, set them up as we need, and support their ongoing usage.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish I could get more people at my company onboard with the concept of a single platform is better than multiple platforms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All kinds including base event log index, along with schedule reports and alerting into Email, HipChat, Slack, and EMF, dashboards, and workflow auto-remediations.
Making Your Logs Usable
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to manipulate data in Splunk is unparalleled. Splunk’s powerful and flexible query language can morph difficult to understand log formats into usable data. Correlating data across different systems via one interface will allow you to know your environment or identify incident data in ways you never imagined.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a definite learning curve to starting out. However, there is a quite a bit of documentation out there to help you get started. In addition Splunk documentation, the community (Splunk answers/slack channel/user groups) can help get you moving along a lot faster.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving over to Splunk has enabled our organization to utilize log files that were previously being collected and not reviewed. With Splunk now these logs are constantly reviewed and used to provide insight to who is using applications and how they are using them.
Highly useful
What do you like best about the product?
Log analysis, dashboard to run queries , pretty flexible tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Need people with technical knowledge to make changes, add new dashboards
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Backend system monitoring and troubleshooting
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