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Splunk is great for mining data and reporting on that data
What do you like best about the product?
Its easy to define the search parameters and to change them on the fly, you can also build graphs to view the progression of the trend. If you use the data often, build a dashboard and consume the data when you need it.
What do you dislike about the product?
you have to remember all the names of the field in the database for a successful query
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are improving on view server logs and the resulting errors. This allows us to fix issues that we have now and spot trends that may come later.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have server logs to be consumed by anyone this program is a must.
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Great tools for searching, organizing and visualizing logs
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use UI and operation to organize data and visualize it. Also great to use the stored template or report to quickly checkout the reports needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes when the data size is large, the response time is slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have logged tons of application & system logs to Splunk. It helps us to quick monitor some realtime issues and address the system problem to protect the business.
Splunk for CA Agile reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Quick lists of CA Agile data at your finger tips. Splunk gives quick views of queries rapidly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having to validate the data because it is another way to pull the same CAAC data and you want to make sure the report is accurate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reporting for Test Case and Defect reporting for User Acceptance Testing. All other data from CA Agile is available for reporting.
A user whose company switch to Splunk Enterprise a couple of months ago
What do you like best about the product?
The documentation is really well done and easy to use.
The UI is slick and fast.
The ability to easily create dashboards.
The auto-completion with suggestion while writing the search query
The left hand menu on the search page containing all the fields detected by the search.
Ability to add/exclude from search the fields extracted from the search results by hovering any text.
The UI is slick and fast.
The ability to easily create dashboards.
The auto-completion with suggestion while writing the search query
The left hand menu on the search page containing all the fields detected by the search.
Ability to add/exclude from search the fields extracted from the search results by hovering any text.
What do you dislike about the product?
The time range search could be improved by allowing the following type of input:
"last 3h" or "3d ago" which is easier to use than applying several clicks to achieve the same results.
"last 3h" or "3d ago" which is easier to use than applying several clicks to achieve the same results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly analysis of various issues reported by customers. It helps to easily understand the customer journey and spot various issues or anomalies. It helps as well to create nice dashboard for non-technical staff who are interested in the business metrics.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Splunk is a great tool which is suitable for any kind of company, from a small startup to a big enterprise company. It has a large number of features, great documentation and support.
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What do you like best about the product?
Checking logs for all applications in one place. Custumizable search by using various input String parameters.
Using alerts triggered when application encounters certain errors in logs.
Using alerts triggered when application encounters certain errors in logs.
What do you dislike about the product?
User Interface and input methods could be more user friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Checking specific error / string in logs of big enterprise applications having big and large number of logs files
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very nice and useful, worth trying for productions systems where lot of monitoring is required.
Great tool for logging and debugging
What do you like best about the product?
Able to place logs to help trace bugs in microservices architecture. Has a web interface for searching logs and provides lots of detail.
What do you dislike about the product?
Searching can be difficult at times because of all the options and information to wade through.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Error logging in enterprise software. Able to trace issues faster with more clarity.
Splunk log monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to watch and search real time logs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since starting to use the tool about 3 years ago, I have not found anything that I would say that I have disliked.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring the logs during production deploy. It gives you an immediate view of what is going on in the environment as the roll out happens.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go ahead and try it. You will definitely like it. The customer service and the help you receive from their support team is awesome.
Have been using splunk for 4 years
What do you like best about the product?
The best part is it is the single platform to debug any errors in the product be it application or DB or infrastructure or any other middletier third party tools
What do you dislike about the product?
It’s not much user friendly and takes a while to get used to query the splunk
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application errors, live issues, ... it gives clear picture of any errors or slow down in application even before an end user complains
Added Bonus to your IT Tools
What do you like best about the product?
Makes monitoring your environment easier with the help of this tools. You don't have to transverse the network looking for hostname to IP or IP to username. This program does it. Moreover, it monitor traffic like a firewall with the rules of the firewall.
Btw, it reads logs from your backup, windows events, and any logs you can throw at it.
Btw, it reads logs from your backup, windows events, and any logs you can throw at it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that it's still web base. Meaning, if your have a lot of internal traffic, site loads will differ. Your mileage will vary, that is my only complaint about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trying to save time by having a tool like Splunk to work along my Palo Alto Firewall. The PA is great, but doesn't do reporting well. Spunk makes finding malware to websites that a user takes easier. Save me a bunch of time and well worth the money.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to save time, use this awesome software for logs, monitor hosts across networks, reporting, and malware.
Great tool to analyse logs
What do you like best about the product?
We use splunk logs day to day basis to analyse and effectively debug issues. We also use it which raising incidents of any failures where we use splunk to get all the required information for developers to debug the issue
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes it does not capture the errors correctly which makes it really difficult as we depend on the tool a lot
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
checking and debugging errors, raise incident, provide information to developers
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