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Allows for quick review of multiple log events
What do you like best about the product?
We can troubleshoot an issue end to end with all of our logs in one console. Creation of dashboards allows a quick view of potential issues before they become impacting.
What do you dislike about the product?
The search language can be a challenge for the novice user.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our support staff has been able to reduce MTR with the help of dashboards and quick searches across multiple
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Great tool, steep learning curve
What do you like best about the product?
Powerful log analytics tool and solid user interface. Seems to be an industry standard. Widely accepted by the IT and IT security community. Great presence in their market and industry. Knowledgeable sales people that understand the technical and business applications of their product instead of handing it off to their developers / product managers / business analysts to answer more complicated questions.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve for the Spunk querying syntax is somewhat steep. I'm not sure how much the support is really geared towards beginners or those that are not familiar with logging tools. The support that is out there for learning the tool is great but the support that is out there for learning the actual querying syntax is, in my humble opinion, lacking. It might be great for those familiar with querying tools, etc. but for those new to IT tools, management, administration, etc it is not the easiest to pick up. I would recommend looking at the tutorials and youtube videos then finding somebody who is already familiar with the tool and having them walk you through it just for the basic features. That alone would help a bit
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Capturing logs, analytics, indexing, and correlating in real time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Understand the admin and user requirements, technical understanding, and tangible application. It is a great tool and is used by many but ensure that it actually tailors to your business needs. Specifically, where does Splunk provide value where open source or other free tools cannot provide. Furthermore, if it provides the right support then adopt-ability increases greatly. There are many other free / open source tools, so do you due diligence to understand what you really need and what tools can meet that need. A lot of vendors have value added features or just outright great features, but make sure you answer the following questions: 1) can your users learn and apply this in the needed environments? 2) How long will it take to realize it's value? and 3) can you do without the particular feature, etc.
Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
I think Splunk is pretty easy to use and economical
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be difficult without proper training
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I don't recall any problem
Good tool for log tracking
What do you like best about the product?
Good UI, search options, ease of use, fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
A little slow in searching long log files.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Searching production server logs.
Powerful Log Analysis
What do you like best about the product?
Search syntax, ease of data normalization, reporting
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost (compared to open source ELK stack)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data management, analysis, data collection and correlation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great product and would recommend it. Also would recommend elastic's ELK stack as an alternative if open source is an allowed technology
Spunk can do logs and more
What do you like best about the product?
Search and dashboard functions. Performance during reach in millions of records
What do you dislike about the product?
Not easy to set up. Might be expensive. Hard to integrate
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Log seaches
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get your data volumes first
Good for querying logs
What do you like best about the product?
Alert options and dashboards are the best
What do you dislike about the product?
Splunk Querying language needs learning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Docker container logs in one place.
Splunk review
What do you like best about the product?
It’s good to debug production issues with ease
What do you dislike about the product?
It is sometimes slow especially for larger time intervals
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Debug prod issues
Using spunk for work
What do you like best about the product?
I think it is great for the novice like me to get started and use right away
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a little bit difficult to use and get the full benefit out of it without some database background
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
data search/report
Recommendations to others considering the product:
it's great product if you know what you want
Robust Search and Correlation Capabilities
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Splunk is the ease of setting up forwards and ingesting multiple sources of data from structured to unstructured. Splunk does a great job of correlating events and search capabilities are robust as long as you know the search commands. The ability to setup alerts is helpful and the out of the box filtering capabilities are useful for new analysts.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about Splunk is the slight learning curve at the beginning. Once you get the hang of how to do searches, searching becomes second hand. The product is also pricey, but you do get your month's worth so there is value in this product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The business problems we are trying to solve with Splunk Enterprise are event correlation and incident management. Splunk gives us the ability to search across multiple data sources from one easy to use interface. The benefit of this is that we no longer have to log in to multiple data sources to query relevant date relating to an incident. The robust search capabilities are the biggest benefit we have realized.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For consistency, it would be helpful to deploy the forwarders via group policy or your software deployment tools. Splunk can also pull logs from systems as well. Make sure that you have enough space depending on how much data you wish to cache.
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