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Very good for basic data querying, but not so easy for complex querying
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk very nicely provides query/search access to huge volumes of data (for example log-file data). If you're interested in finding specific occurrences of something/anything within your data, Splunk is a nice tool to have. For basic querying, it cannot be beat.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you need to find an "area" within your huge volume of data (for example, either what happened immediately before or after a specific occurrence) then you end up fighting with Splunk to let you see that "area". Personally, I've ended up having to write extremely complex regular expressions within Splunk just to be able to see these "areas", and they work, but it needs to be easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Splunk to diagnose problems within a web-application by querying the application log file data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For simple querying it's very easy to pickup and use, but for complex querying, you'll need a strong background in regular expressions.
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Monitoring Network Traffic with Splunk
What do you like best about the product?
I like Splunk's speed when querying millions of logs to find specific data points. Combined with the online support pages that help with any type of query, Splunk makes searching through data easy. Additionally, the ability to start a search and have it sent via email upon completion allows for productivity to increase due to the fact that I do not have to sit around waiting for my query to complete. Lastly, the export feature is extremely convenient for digging through large amounts of data easily in Excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you click to expand a search result and then attempt to scroll while this result is still expanded, you will get yanked back up to that result repeatedly until it is closed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been able to verify the number of users that are using each route out to the internet, and then use that information to determine the use of one system vs. the other (i.e. proxy traffic vs. firewall traffic). This allowed me to solve the problem of bottlenecks on one by focusing more traffic through the other. The benefits of this change are increased speed for users and more safety of our information and systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Splunk Enterprise will change the way that an organization is able to look through its traffic logs. A search of millions of records takes very little time, and each query can be customized to find and show only what the user wants.
Great Logging for Compliance
What do you like best about the product?
Offers great predefined applications and visualised dashboards to dispaly and make sense of the logs. These make it very easy to see the wood for the trees.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the best applications and dashboards can bee quite expensive although there are kes comprehensive free versions available
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Centralised logging for complaince through distributed nodes.
Also ulilising the logging for internal preformance monitoring on our own applications
Also ulilising the logging for internal preformance monitoring on our own applications
Easy and Quick
What do you like best about the product?
The colors and menu items are very intuitive. It may not be a big thing but it is easy on the eyes
What do you dislike about the product?
It lacks support for agile cycles. If a planning mechanism is included like Jira, it would be a good improvement
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Handling large amounts of data and alerts.
The clear leader in centralized log management and monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to setup, upgrade, manage, and configure to meet your needs. The universal forwarder makes this easier than any other solution out there.
What do you dislike about the product?
Price can be of a concern. If you have a large influx of traffic being logged, you could easily go over your license limit and have a violation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better detection of errors in application logs
Great log analysis plus alert and reporting
What do you like best about the product?
The visualization graph features as well as the alert and notifications
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to learn the syntax for log search. Should have made it a little easier for new users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have some notification report emails generated out of so to notify is of any serious error in loga. We are also using it to generate server usage graphs like CPU utilization and memory pages etc.
Splunk Advantages
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk will publish the data by connecting to any different source systems and shown in the dashboard with all the trend.
What do you dislike about the product?
Depends upon the Application logs and sys logs rather than having its own data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking the transactions and it could help business in terms of publishing the transaction trend and also in triageing the issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its a very good tool to capture the logs form different sources and publish the statistics to business
Great search, not so great UI
What do you like best about the product?
The ability in Splunk to search for errors online and without having to SSH or Telnet into a console would have to be the best feature of Splunk by far.
What do you dislike about the product?
The inability to then simply review and investigate a particular log message would have to be the biggest downfall of the platform. Text is presented in the tokenised view and it definitely isnt intuitive on how log messages and the surrounding (preceding or proceeding) logs can be viewed easily... if it’s possible I still haven’t figured it out after 12 months of using the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to determine if an error occurred, not great at determining other errors in the lead up to a particular problem however.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Improve the search result UI would have a dramatic improvement on usability. Not living up to the dream in it’s current state.
Splunk performs a service, but is kind of clunky
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk captures a great deal of data for reporting.
What do you dislike about the product?
Getting a decent report requires a lot of manipulation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have business programs that do not have reporting that integrate with Splunk.
Analytics for the rest of us
What do you like best about the product?
Practical data ingestion implementation, multiple data sources and types.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still editing config files without version control?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Manufacturing related problems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do your homework and quantify business impacts when dealing with systemic problems.
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