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Splunk Review
What do you like best about the product?
A simple, flat process to index the data in their native format. This allows allows the platform to be highly scale-able; It can grow with the amount of data it is needed to process. The system can run in dynamic parallel to your environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still have to read through many documentation to find the answers and at many times I can't find it. Not highly customized, would be helpful if they can provide more customization tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Realtime logging and alerts makes Splunk our primary notification system.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A powerful tool, built lightly (doesn't require a DB) which will help in log collection, reporting and retention.
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Splunk great software Product
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use when it trying to search specific information/data
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost is definitely a factor but overall it's a great product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring our various production applications. Once of the many benefits is that it saves times when errors occurs
Great Data Analytics With a Bit of a Learning Curve
What do you like best about the product?
The add-ons are the best. Some of the information and feedback that the add-ons are able to compile based on all the data that gets injected into Splunk is beyond awesome and very helpful
What do you dislike about the product?
To start there is a pretty big learning curve in my opinion. The breakdowns in the left hand nav bar definitely helps. But slow to learning the search language.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to correlate errors and find out what and where they are coming from has allowed us to solve alot of issues lightning fast
Splunk the Best Data Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk searches through millions of logs in matter of minutes. Its the essential tool I use at work.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be ever confusing to use at first. Maybe make a better UI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us search through millions of logs to help us with internal investigations.
Very powerful software, but also very pricey
What do you like best about the product?
The power and flexibility when it comes to extracting information
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost.. the pricing model is $/GB and the costs just rise exponentially if you happen to have the necessity of working with many big logs!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Advanced monitoring and real time analysis of infrasctructure problems
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't try to collect verbose or otherwise "heavy" logs as costs will rise quickly.
Dashboard
What do you like best about the product?
What I like about the product is its use for the api dashboard. You can customize your search query and add it to the dashboard and get email notifications everyday (the way we set it).
What do you dislike about the product?
Missing integration with known IDEs (Netbeans, IntelliJ, JDeveloper..)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
logs in one common place for all the services you have. Search is easier and you can customize it as per your needs.
Amazing
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to look up logs and historical records of the same
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much and the software meets its expectation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Get logs
Highly powerful, steep learning curve
What do you like best about the product?
If the data is in your logs, you can find it with Splunk. Sometimes I'm just searching for a key phrase in the last 30 days and I can get the answer back within seconds. At other times, I'm using a regex to extract a fraction of complex line and then graph that result to find anomalies and, again, the answer comes back within seconds. Splunk is incredibly powerful and I am constantly learning new things and new ways to use it.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve is incredibly steep. You essentially have an empty search box and you have to know what commands to use (and how to use them) to really get anything useful out of it. It has an alerting feature but it's a little...quirky. There doesn't seem to be a decent way to create live alerts--instead you can have a query run every minute but don't allow it look back more than 1 minute because otherwise you'll get duplicate results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted a way to access all of our logs and notice trends. This limits the number of people who need access to production instances and we can also store many terabytes of logs and access the results with ease.
My experience with using Splunk Enterprise.
What do you like best about the product?
Dashboards is very helpful. It gives us a lot of insight into what is happening. Also the alerting feature is also helpful. It helps to send out an email if there is an increase in threshold etc. Setting up file based forwarders is easy. Field extraction is also really great. It helps to analyze the search results.
What do you dislike about the product?
It will take a while to learn the SPL (Splunk search processing language) but after it is learnt, it helps to get a lot of helpful searches. Event correlation is not very easy to grasp. Also the search UI is not very intuitive. Sometimes Splunk is not very fast. And also sometimes events timeline doesn't respond well. Patterns can be improved to have more intuitiveness. More formats can be supported to export the results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Splunk to analyse our system and software logs. We also setup dashboards and custom alerts. We forward our application logs to splunk to analyse and find root cause of the problem. Monitoring the applications using Splunk alerts gives us peace of mind.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's definitely worth considering. But there are also other new vendors who recently entered the market and are worth checking out.
Very Powerful, Very Complex
What do you like best about the product?
Its easy to pick up and do short/simple queries, and once you get the hang of it, it is an incredibly powerful too. It doesn't really care what it is being used to search through or for, just point it at something, and it will do its job.
What do you dislike about the product?
Splunk is easy to learn, hard to master. Getting from the simple searches to the advanced stuff is very challenging, especially if you teach yourself, but well worth it. Another downside is I wasn't able to find a way to publish records automatically to Jira. It would be incredibly useful to be able to push search results with test reports to Jira tickets
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Log searching and monitoring in our production environment. Using a tool like splunk, even without advanced knowledge, is a million times better than manually searching through logs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Pay for some kind of training for your people. They will be able to get much more out of it than if they are self taught.
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