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Great Doftware
What do you like best about the product?
Simple easy to use analytics. Visually very pretty and easy to navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Current Splunkbase apps need help. Most of the apps simply don't work out of the box and are more templates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
TCO, Systems monitoring, Fraud, internal fraud, etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do it! Best in breed stuff.
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How can you not have Splunk!
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk allows access to all the operational data. It lets you correlate events and set up alerts to help with future issues. It allows for metric tracking and analysis and provides easy to use dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
Dashboard design is restrictive. The layout is pretty fixed unless you have admin rights to create style sheets. The UI only lets you do half of the options, you must go into the simple xml for full range of options. Creating drill-ins is not intuitive. Limited out-of-the-box charting options for time series.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Operational Monitoring
Splunk Enterprise For the Win
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is so easy to use that you will find yourself using it as the first step in every project or problem solving venture. The speed in which answers are realized is amazing and invaluable to fast paced teams or companies.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is never enough time to implement all of the ideas we have for using Splunk! (this is an 'us' problem, not a Splunk problem)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Splunk to identify , predict, and resolve issues across multiple products. We are also using Splunk to track items across multiple products, databases, external sites, and files in a easy to understand format for every level of user.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the leap! At least download the free version and get an idea of just how much Splunk can help you.
The jack of all trades...if you want it to be
What do you like best about the product?
As I said in my title "The jack of all trades...if you want it to be" Splunk is so powerful that sometimes it's hard to know where to start! Start small and don't overwhelm yourself, you'll quickly come to appreciate Splunk and all it can do.
What do you dislike about the product?
Many small and annoying bugs. I can work around all of them, but sometimes I burn an entire day figuring out how.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data insight.
Splunk is a game changer
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk Enterprise has allowed us to easily sort data from multiple sources in easy to manipulate and view dashboards and reports in way we could never do before.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I can say that I dislike about Splunk is that it has made our customer think that our job is a piece of cake because of how quickly we can answer their questions!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Consolidated log review that has allowed us to answer questions faster than ever before and identify issues and metrics that we could not have done easily before the implementation of splunk.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You won't be sorry
Transcendental Meditation as Software (TMaS)
What do you like best about the product?
Oh, to begin at the start is akin to creating pottery from clay. Forming the vase of data from the clay of disparity, one can simply design such meaning and substance from meaningless data, and share amongst peers and enemies alike.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, the rapid evolution causes internal strife, but nary is it a problem, as support and documentation rules all.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Verily, we beseech thee to not find a benefit. Optimization of Continuouse Integration, Notification of downtime and reporting of such, monitoring the temperature for optimal Feng shui, among other glorious and grand moments, one must have a sense of pride and accomplishment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consult professional services and the community. http://splk.it/slack . Find a user, ask them questions, and join the revolution!
The most versatile data mining product I know of
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk takes in any data in almost any form (as long as it is human readable text) and allows searching, manipulation, transformation, calculation, etc. and then presents it in a multitude of ways to make the data tell a helpful story. That is superior to products that make you set up each type of data in a set format. We have data that varies greatly even among similar software products.
What do you dislike about the product?
Bugs, though to be honest, I haven't run across many, and they seem to get fixed pretty quickly. I've run into some that usually have a workaround, which makes it easier to deal with the bug.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Splunk for many purposes. Developers use it to find coding problems, operations uses it to find operational issues, managers look at reporting and forecasting.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Learn as much as you can before implementing a large installation, or use professional services to get you started. You can keep from making lots of bad mistakes by doing so. Many people go into the implementation making simple, but critical mistakes that can be hard to rectify. These are things that are documented, but people don't take the time to find out about them, so they make those mistakes anyway.
Quickk and easy set up and useful for simple testing
I read one review that said that THP was not supported on the instance, but I checked on mine and it was properly configured. I did have a couple of errors that showed that there may have been some files that were not verified as being Splunk installed and that the instance fell below the suggested minimums for running Splunk, but I was just using a Free EC2 instance to try things out.
The web interface came up quickly and with out problems and I was able to install apps quickly and easily. I added some data and had things working well quite quickly. I would like to try a larger AMI instance, but for the testing I did. It was quite usable.
Splunk is just couple of clicks away!
I've been using Splunk Enterprise on premises for few years.
And it is hands down the best product I've come across in 15+ sysadmin years.
No, really, I've seen some really nice pieces of software but none of them comes even close. And the Splunk AMI just makes the starting the use of all Splunk Enterprise features so much faster that it is a no-brainer. New or old Splunk user: Grab it. Throw some data, any data, to it and start Splunkin' !
Trying Splunk AMI for the first time
I use Splunk Enterprise Security at work.
Currently studying for my architect certification. I know Splunk AMI on AWS will be the perfect platform for my lab.
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