Splunk Platform Pros and Cons

Real-time data insights and customizable dashboards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steep learning curve for beginners to master Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like splunk because, we integrated it with all our SAP apps, DB and GUI. It provides us with real-time monitoring, alerting, and custom dashboard making.

It helps us in monitoring file system usage, application availability and CPU usage of our systems which will ensure there will be always smooth performance and no downtime for the production environments.

I like features of it, like:

1. Realtime Monitoring

2. Custom Dashboard

3. Alerts Configuring

4. Scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost of the application is somewhat high, learning it is also quite difficult. Other than that from functionality side Splunk is best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Usage of Indexes for identifying the logs and troubleshooting without using DB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It needs a lot of storage, managing it will become quite complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's an overwhelming tool with discovery of new network assets.

Absolutely great for use of repository of secure keeping of data.

It's have a great dashboard for data visualization.

It's spectacular for events tracking for quick action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Super adorable for events tracking for quick alerts and quick actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Splunk Enterprise's potent log analysis, user-friendly interface, scalability, alerting, and rich ecosystem empower efficient log management, offering a comprehensive view of systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Challenges include the perceived cost and licensing model, a learning curve for new users specially because of the SPL (Splunk Programming Language), and resource consumption in larger deployments. Effective optimization strategies are crucial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1) User friendly GUI.

2) Simple and powerful tool for SEIM.

3) Rich visualizations & Cutomizable dashboards to understand insights clearly.

4) Real time monitoring and alerting features are cheryy on top. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1) cost can be issue for some organizations.

2) It also offers free version but have very limited functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Splunk Enterprise is one of the leading SIEM Solution in the industry and the main attraction of splunk is ease of use and implementation, we can easily connect as many devices we need to splunk by its agent that is splunk universal forwarder and after a small configuration it will share logs automatically in realtime.it is also very easy to analyse logs using splunk enterprise with its special queries known as splunk processing language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Splunk Enterprise is not affordable for individuals and it's free trial have a limitation of 500mb. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User friendly UI

Easy to configure and set Alerts.

If you stuck, people around you know about this platform and can help.

Convinient.

We can use custom dashboards and use it as per our need.

we can integrate this with Microsoft Exchange and get realtime messages/emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be challenging to configure and troubleshoot the issues for newbies. Person should have expressions knowledge to operate this tool/platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Splunk provides great features for log aggregator, searching , you can monitor things like your infrastructure, can create different dash boards for your infra, application and many more ! You can also use/configure Splunk as a SIEM ( Security information and Event Managemnt) that helps organization detect, analyze, and respond to security threats before they harm to the business/application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Defintley Splunk is a not a very sheap solution and bit expensive. Learning curve is also there, you need to underdstand the architecture and terminology, should be goof as SPL ( search processing language) to query from the logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Versatile, end to end monitoring of all devices with processing of various log files to give insights into the events happening on those devices. Plug n play with cloud model ensures faster implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing is one concern area as it's based on GB of data processed. Large enterprises have huge volumes of log files that can turn out to be quite expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.