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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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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
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
Splunk Enterprise: Product Review
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is a fantastic tool that we depend on. It isn't just development work we rely on Splunk for, but we also use it for testing engineering changes as a standard before production releases. From ease-of-use, forwarding data from a variety of data sources, and E2E data correlation, Splunk has been able to package software that does it all!
What do you dislike about the product?
Recent versions of Splunk can be a bit chatty in terms of messages that are displayed in Splunk Web. I'm finding a lot of questions coming from the business teams like, "I'm seeing this error - what does this mean?", or "This error message came up when I ran this search in the dashboard, can you please have a look?". Most often messages that display are not directly correlated to what the Splunk users are performing. I may have missed it, but it would be great to pass something off to the business teams that they could reference if a particular set of error messages occur. Any infrastructure-related messages would ultimately be handled by the core Splunk team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most rewarding and challenging problems I've solved with Splunk are E2E monitoring solutions for our core customer transactions. Never in the history of the company has this been implemented. For the first time, we were able to correlate data across multiple systems, and ensure (at least a ) 99.5% success rate. This is higher today,
Very reliable log management tool
What do you like best about the product?
Reliable and robust methods to manage application and service related logs on prod
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning curve required for newbies in the team
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Excellent monitoring and alerting allows peace of mind
Spunk is a good data miner
What do you like best about the product?
It's pulls all the data and shows it in a report
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI could use an update. However it works great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Show data in reports
App-Analytics is what I use it for
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface and the querying syntax
What do you dislike about the product?
Since I am still learning it I will need more time to find andwer to this
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Checking logs, finding patterns in log files etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go for it. Try and then decide. Definitely worth trying.
Best tool for insight
What do you like best about the product?
Log analysis, visualisation , application performance monitoring
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not a feature to dislike on splunk
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Slow user experience
Very powerful
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to create custom dashboards and monitor logs
What do you dislike about the product?
All features are extremely good do not dislike any
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Logs monitoring
Debugging
Dashboards
Debugging
Dashboards
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