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We do so much more than just what's listed
What do you like best about the product?
The versatility. We ingest some of the worst looking logs and force them into a usable form, generating reports and dashboards that business users make decisions from. At times I use Splunk as a clearinghouse for terribly formatted data that I don't even directly use, taking data that makes my BI team cry, reformatting it, cleaning it up and shoving it into a database for them to use further down the pipe. In the more standard uses, we use it to correlate various pieces of information from across our environment to identify when weird things are happening so we can better address them. But two of its primary strengths are the quality of the documentation and the thriving and active user community (answers.splunk.com, User Groups, their Slack channel and so on) who are always willing to help out if you need it!
What do you dislike about the product?
There's can be a significant amount of complexity, some of which is due to the domain across which it works, but some of which hasn't been smoothed over yet by Splunk. This is mostly not in the core product but in some of the Apps, which just need a little work. See comments on the community above, though - there are replacement apps and lots of help available on the Slack channel and in Answers!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The quick ability to make sense of new data has changed how we react to many situations, speeding up responses to complex questions we may have. The ability to correlate all the disparate events thrown out by all our devices and distill them into a small set of events that are actually unusual is one of the cornerstones of how we react to anomalies.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Splunk Fundamentals I is a ~8 hour free online course that gives you a basic understanding of how Splunk works, I recommend signing up for that and using that as your springboard. There's a free download of Splunk Enterprise that enables all features for 30+ days, you can switch it to a free version after that which costs nothing. Then get into Answers and into Slack in the Splunk user group channels and start playing around!
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splunk enterprise
What do you like best about the product?
Easy interface and presents the metadata in such an organized way and make troubleshooting a whole lot easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
the way to deploy app. it work fine but is just a little redundant. I dont like the fact that if you put one app in the deploy directory and deploy it will install that app and remove all the others. no matter how many. I think that's a design issue and needs to be fixed/.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we use it to monitor logs for almost all our servers.
Excellent Product
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use Splunk offers makes using the tool a breeze. You don't have to be a developer to get your hands dirty going through machine data and finding good use cases for the tool
What do you dislike about the product?
As your data ingest grows, so does the cost. This can become pricey if you're not careful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrity monitoring, trend data, and workstation data issues are the biggest uses we have for Splunk. The quickness in finding the information you're looking for was a massive benefit
Yes it’s always working
What do you like best about the product?
It sits by idle- or it seems to be but any and every change to your system will be logged for ease of recovery
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. A very well thought out solution for any business
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick automated Rollback
Nice software to log the issues
What do you like best about the product?
You can access all the logs and filter through very easyly
What do you dislike about the product?
It needs to be more user friendly so that a person with no experience can still access it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Logging any error into splunk and analyzing it
Splunk Search
What do you like best about the product?
It allows one to search through numerous records using key word searches.
What do you dislike about the product?
If not familiar with Splunk, the phrases or key words necessary to do a search can be inconvenient.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to search through a number of records to trouble-shoot issues.
Great Monitor Tool, Take it Slow
What do you like best about the product?
I am using Splunk now to monitor the logs from my backup server. The fact that it can import in logs from another host is great. The love the reporting for the logs as it provide an easy to use ad-hoc query which output a readable format for you to understand. You can actually go beyond logs and into monitor your network for spikes in processes and resources. What makes this unique is knowing which host and users are associated with the processes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's very confusing at first because there's so many tools and links. It's not simple so do read up before you tackle this product. This product costs a lot of money for what it delivers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are looking for a platform to monitor our network usages from users and hosts. In addition, being able to import logs for a readable format. The application saves us time in research and allows me to focus on other tasks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is a free version, but it's limited. You can decide to invest in this product. It's very expensive so keep that in mind.
Good Product for collecting ,monitoring logs.
What do you like best about the product?
It's much easier to configure, compared to tools like ELK, and the search is quick to look for logs based on specific time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not so many plugins for rails and open source tools like apache2,Nginx,...
Monitoring a specific file status in linux environment seemed hard since the splunk enterprise was installed in windows environment.
Monitoring a specific file status in linux environment seemed hard since the splunk enterprise was installed in windows environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Log based alerts for DDOS attacks,Http response based alerts ,Database errors.
Review
What do you like best about the product?
Transparency in reporting to monitor server problems
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't have a UI friendly interface for the end users and it's not that intuitive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to monitor problems with the hardware and troubleshoot system issues
Sr. Database Administrator
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk provides a great ease in reading the logs. It helps us analyze the metrics on a regular basis to troubleshoot production issues. We have been using Splunk for quite a few years now and it has always been a great tool use to analyze the data patterns and alert us on all performance related issues and pattern matching.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much of dislike on the product. It's more of how much I can help reviewing the production to help it enhance its ease of use.
It would be great to have multiple levels of automation setup within splunk where in it allows users to choose what exactly they want by looking at the earlier patterns and usage of the product. By showing this suggestions, it will be easy for the users to make sure they take into consideration the suggestions shown by splunk to make a wise decision whether to go ahead with the suggestion or implement a new one.
It would be great to have multiple levels of automation setup within splunk where in it allows users to choose what exactly they want by looking at the earlier patterns and usage of the product. By showing this suggestions, it will be easy for the users to make sure they take into consideration the suggestions shown by splunk to make a wise decision whether to go ahead with the suggestion or implement a new one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using splunk to log all our web and application logs. Using this log we are having a great ease at the time of post mortem an issue to take a look at the pattern and troubleshoot accordingly.
also for any issues which pop-up during the connection timeouts, we are able to pin point which user its creating problem and take the necessary steps.
Splunk is helping us choose and make our lives easy by ease of use.
also for any issues which pop-up during the connection timeouts, we are able to pin point which user its creating problem and take the necessary steps.
Splunk is helping us choose and make our lives easy by ease of use.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its a great product
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