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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
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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.
Worked for a short period on splunk
What do you like best about the product?
Group search results, get stack trace, detailed query string
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard to remember the query parameters, long list of commands to remember
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To retrieve production errors and logs. Find bugs that are missed during dev and qa testing.
Splunk review
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and check the logs on servers of different environments
What do you dislike about the product?
There should be more user friendly interface
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Checking server logs for troubleshooting the problems. It’s very easy to check the logs on servers and troubleshoot based on them
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Must use software especially for developers
Easy to read dashboard
What do you like best about the product?
My team mostly uses it to track lockouts for users. However we also use it for VPN connection metrics, tracking active directory user accounts, and various other types of reports.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does have a bit of a learning curve to it at first, such as accidentally connecting to the wrong dashboard can leave you feeling a little lost until you find you way back to the correct app.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My team is initial helpdesk support, so we use it to find out what servers a users Active Directory account is locked out of, track the server, or track the MAC Address of a device that has locked them out of a radius server/wireless connection. It was a little inaccurate at first, but we have upgraded recently and now can fully track the mac addresses to reassure the user that yes, their phone is connecting to the wireless, and yes they need to fix that on their end.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just having the correct subscription would be extremely helpful to your company, otherwise there can be too many logins causing issues with the license. Other than that, it has great dashboards for network admins, and creating a smooth transition for troubleshooting at a beginner level.
Splunk Enterprise Review
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is super easy to deploy, use, and allows users to easily and efficiently manage systems and networks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Email alerts are only as good as the people that receive them, which can render the tool not as useful if there are the only alerts created.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to efficiently manage risk within technology systems and applications.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
People still matter! Don’t rely only on the system alerts generated by Splunk. Continue to investigate and any and all anomalies.
Splunk for Data Analytics
What do you like best about the product?
Robust features and adaptability and ease of customization
What do you dislike about the product?
There was a bit of a learning urge for new users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working in a group that supports and troubleshoots issues for a large number of users, we needed an application that would allow us to view and predict issues that surfaced. We had no way to find root cause within our division. Splunk allowed us to pool data from critical services and analyze it to gain insight on issues and proactively find issues.
Splunk Enterprise Log Hunter
What do you like best about the product?
Searching for specific logs with multiple sources is great! Narrowing by timeframes is excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
Log retrieval can be lengthy if looking for over 30 days.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Checking firewall logs and user logs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Setup sources and background data carefully.
Awesome software very easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, UI’s are awesome, simple user focused application, reduces data management time. Exports are clean and able to be shared with customers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up new applications within splunk, sometimes this is tedious, but over all not too bad.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data management and reporting
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it to its full potential
Help with your deep dive
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can create a dashboard for the specific report that I need to pull
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I find that splunk if offline or is not capturing complete information
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving frequently locked out users and are able to pinpoint the location
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