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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.
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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.
Very useful
What do you like best about the product?
Imagine you have 10 servers running and you need to debug a exception. Wondering how you can login to each and check ? This is where Splunk is extremely handy. It has awesome data analyzing tools. The dashboards are extremely customization friendly .
What do you dislike about the product?
The queries is difficult to understand to start with. The overall UI itself looks extremely complicated when someone new to it starts using it. But yes, powerful tool will have some complexity , wouldn't it ?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do log analyzing using Splunk. The server logs are collected which makes searching for exceptions easier. The Dashboard is being used to know the latency of the API's which can be easily presented in any meetings.
Splunk makes it easy to trace bugs down.
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can search by each type of field, and find the cause of errors.
What do you dislike about the product?
It has a fairly steep learning curve, but once you learn it, it's powerful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to view our application logs, and find the cause of errors.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it out and see if it can help you analyze your logs.
Easy monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is awesome because it has comprehensive and flexible search functionality.
What do you dislike about the product?
When I think of what I dislike about Splunk, nothing comes to mind.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use splunk to monitor our system. We put logging in our code that we can search on in Splunk if something goes wrong to find out more information.
Easy to use for small companies
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is very user friendly and on the analytics side, the visuals created are very elegant!
What do you dislike about the product?
As you scale does the price and it can definitely get overly expensive and the more data you need to index, the higher the CPU cost is. Also some of the querying requires a bit of a learning curve
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Log processing and querying and analytics on these logs
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would not recommend Splunk For small to medium sized businesses since there are better and cheaper tools out there
Log Aggregator
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk has an easy to use interface that can hide how powerful the software can be. It is useful for anyone monitoring anything.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is very little I dislike about splunk. I suppose the only thing I think they could improve is make it cheaper so we don't have to worry as much about our data limits.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to monitor our platform.
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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