I use it for monitoring and troubleshooting the performance of cloud-native applications.
Splunk Observability Cloud
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Offers end-to-end visibility, real-time monitoring, and distributed tracing, enabling organizations to optimize application performance and troubleshoot issues efficiently
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Providing comprehensive visibility throughout the environment, it monitors my system, enhances career performance, and offers insights into the user experience.
Troubleshooting and visualizing a cloud-native environment is made easy with Splunk APM. It provides complete visibility into software tools, swiftly monitoring business performance and applications.
It possesses the capability to conduct distributed tracing within our environment. This includes monitoring the speed of tracked access, extending from end users to the Internet, system, and network services, and supporting my software application. Consequently, it offers an end-to-end overview of potential bottlenecks.
Splunk APM has significantly enhanced our organizational efficiency. Initially, my responsibilities included tracking website application performance, managing applications, and handling license releases. Now, it provides real-time user monitoring, transforming the way I handle these tasks.
It significantly impacts our organization's telemetry data, improving operational performance and user experience. The platform provides insights into application performance and effective log management. Ensuring accurate tracking of all performance-related logs contributes to building up the application performance percentage with comprehensive data.
It contributed to a daily reduction of six hours in our mean time to resolve.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance.
Another value lies in the resilience and quick recovery capabilities offered by the SIEM. It enables thorough monitoring across our landscape, providing insights into the number of running software applications. The tool furnishes comprehensive information across microservices, significantly enhancing our proficiency.
What needs improvement?
Enhancing system availability and optimizing service performance are crucial. It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It provides good stability capabilities.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It has the capacity to scale. There are approximately two hundred users and one administrator that use it.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate its customer service and support eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
The deployment process took six hours. During this time, a clear understanding was established regarding which technical applications—whether cloud-based, native, or others—needed monitoring and improved performance. These categories were identified in-house, with two individuals overseeing the process.
What was our ROI?
It allowed our IT staff to focus on other projects by freeing up their time. In total, it saved around four hours.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated Grafana.
What other advice do I have?
It can serve as an analytical application for enhancing performance, ensuring all dependencies are effectively addressed. Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Enables users to forward logs to a centralized location and intuitive dashboard functionality
What is our primary use case?
I use Splunk primarily from a gateway operations perspective. I work on application support. As part of that support, we regularly monitor the application dashboards built in Splunk using the logs. I covered this earlier this month.
How has it helped my organization?
The real problem we were facing was that we were unable to get all of our logs into a single place. We have an on-premise application with multiple servers across different data centers, and we needed to be able to view all of the logs together in order to troubleshoot any problems. That's why we started using Splunk to forward all of our logs to a single location.
Moreover, Splunk APM gives us end-to-end visibility across our entire on-premise environment.
Another biggest benefit I've seen is the ability to quickly identify problems using Splunk alerting. We set up alerts against our application metrics, and this has helped us to resolve major issues much sooner. We can now identify problems as soon as they occur, which gives us time to take corrective action before they impact our users.
Splunk has reduced the amount of time our operations team spends investigating problems. This has freed up our engineers to focus on other tasks, such as improving our application performance and adding new features.
What is most valuable?
I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data. I also like the fact that Splunk APM allows me to use log forwarders to forward logs to a central location, where I can then build dashboards to view the data. The dashboards are probably my favorite feature of Splunk APM.
What needs improvement?
I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need. I've had to look at a lot of community forums to find the filters I need, and it can be difficult to get the details I need.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have experience building dashboards and other things with Splunk APM.
I've been using Splunk APM for over a year now. As part of my job in application support, I regularly create and maintain dashboards for our applications using Splunk APM. I also use dashboards to create alerts based on certain metrics.
Moreover, I'm currently working on a project to create a new dashboard for our customer support application.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of the solution is good because I have never had outages I have seen so far. In terms of usage, it's good in terms of availability.
How are customer service and support?
I haven't had to contact the support yet. We have a separate team that maintains and builds our relationship with Splunk, so they would be the ones to contact if we had any issues.
What about the implementation team?
The solution doesn't require any maintenance.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We used New Relic and AppDynamics before Splunk. AppDynamics was our APM tool, and I'm still using New Relic for monitoring Splunk. New Relic is great for log monitoring, and it's our main tool for internal application monitoring.
What other advice do I have?
With Splunk APM as an enterprise solution, various factors come into play. Right now, considerations include pricing and how they envision the solution to work for them. Some might want the solution to be cloud-based. It largely depends on the volumes they anticipate. Organizations must decide how much they're willing to invest, especially when comparing it to other investments they've made. With the current economic recession and organizations looking to cut costs, it's crucial to evaluate the volumes and aspects of Splunk that are most relevant to them.
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
User-friendly, offers good visibility through the logs, and helps identify issues in our environment
What is our primary use case?
We use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring because it is a durable solution for our environment.
How has it helped my organization?
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is easy to use.
The dashboards are good.
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has helped improve our operational performance and efficiency.
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has helped reduce our MTTD by 90 percent.
Our MTTR is good thanks to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is log reporting.
What needs improvement?
The price has room for improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
I have used the technical support a few times and they were good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I would rate the price of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring as an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring ten out of ten.
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is a good service that provides visibility into our environment.
I recommend Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to organizations for the logs that will help identify errors in their devices and assist them in resolving the issues.
One person is required to maintain Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users
What is our primary use case?
In my company, we use Red Canary MDR to perform MITRE ATT&CK, after which I import the lot or whatever commands were run by Red Canary MDR to my Splunk system for further analysis. I use a type of real-time monitoring by Splunk.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of the solution is the way it formats the raw data and helps make the understanding process much easier for the users. When you see the unformatted lots, it looks gibberish, especially for first-time users who may not understand a lot of things, but using Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) can make their job easier.
What needs improvement?
I had tried onboarding Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) on the cloud, but unfortunately, I couldn't onboard it on the cloud. It is an issue from my end that Splunk can try to improve.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) for over half a year. I use the solution with an enterprise license for a trial period of six months. I am a customer of Splunk.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Everyone in the SOC team, consisting of 50 to 100 people in my new company, uses Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM).
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy.
The solution is deployed on-premises.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
My company decided to go with Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) over other solutions since it has the ability to format raw data making the job of the organization easier.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend the tool to those planning to use it since even though similar tools are available in the market, Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is easier to use, especially for businesses.
I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.
Splunk observability cloud review
Good enterprise solution
Provide real time alerts.
Helping monitoring the system.
Business activity monitoring.
Slow movement.
Real user monitoring
Helping server monitoring and infrastructure monitoring
Splunk Observability Cloud
Splunk Observability cloud review
Excellent log monitoring tool
Some inbuilt dashboard should be offered like monitoring tools
And can setup alert on logs.
Best security feature
Less UI friendly for end user