Splunk Platform Pros and Cons

Splunk has traditionally shown strong performance in APM. Especially compared to other competing products, it has an advantage.

It is still a strong and good solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since Cisco acquired it, the pricing policy and other features are still unclear.

Of course, I expect that a good company will acquire it and create good synergy to further expand the business, but I have a strong feeling that they are not ready yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Splunk Enterprise tool has out of the box applications available to integrate with public cloud/DC (VMWARE) to collect varioud cloud insights & metric data. It's easy to develop a customized dashboard using the data stored. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Currently Splunk doesnt support Application performance monitoring and license cost is very high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is easier to write SPL queries than SQL, and you can create your own custom Splunk commands where you can write your own Python scripts to handle complex data types like JSON, which has a nested level of 3 or 4. It is easy to create visualizations and get insights out of the data through commands like charts, stats, etc. It has a vast level of customer support, and when the developer or the user gets stuck, it has great documentation to resolve the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The resources splunk software takes when it handles a complex query makes you crazy and it has everything a developer needs, but when it comes to the licensing, it is a bit costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It provides real-time insights and monitoring, which is crucial for identifying and addressing issues promptly. The search processing language (SPL) is powerful and flexible, allowing users to perform complex queries and analyses. Splunk is very user friendly, easy to implement and integrate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost is the one thing that i will keep under dislike but they have mow come up with diffrent licensing model that is competing with others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing which i liked about splunk platform is the capturing and analysis of logs which is very much efficient and gives accurate results upon verification, Splunk has played a significant role in projects while analysis of any kind of issues , which makes splunk a right choice for quick analysis and very great tool which can be implemented, Also comes up with great customer support is provided in case of issues encountered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The one factor which i didnt like about splunk platform was sometimes it takes more time to display logs. Sometimes this issue occurs fequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Splunk Enterprise is a great solution for the organization collecting data from different services and can be used to do a lots of tasks like searching,visualizing and analyzing data.

It is easy to integrate with number of applications like Jira,AWS,Splunk security,etc.

Can be easily used by all team members to analyze data for indexing and searching.

It can be implemented with other splunk services.

It has great customer support available via chat,email,chatbot,slack,etc.

It can be frequently used by various team members for different roles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Splunk has a lot of benefits but there are few points to be noted like -

1. For large enterprise it is costly and has to buy license for all employees to access the application.

2. Desktop application is faster than the web application so sometimes it crash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Splunk is a multipurpose tool, which can be used for Visulizing the data in the form of Dashboards with dynamic drill downs, UBA, Incident review Dashboard, wide variety of integration support with existing Add-ons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bundle replication & dispatch directories are two main reasons for Splunk Enterprise crash, these are not being addressed since long. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use

Easy To integrated Source

Easy to scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The licensing model is not easy to sell or control, and the sale to a manufacturer like Cisco is creating difficulties in the sales process for companies dedicated to marketing cyber security solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

a powerfull tool with alot of potencial to make more ease the work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the app for integration for other tecnologys is limited after new version of splunk Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robust Data Ingestion: Handles massive volumes of data from diverse sources, including logs, metrics, and security events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complex Configuration: Requires careful configuration to optimize performance and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.