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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.
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.
Splunk has been a great platform to learn, support, and use at my company.
What do you like best about the product?
From the users sides, it is a single platform that can provide everything a company needs without needing to go between different platforms that host different bits and pieces of the data needed to support a customer facing service. From the support side, my day job, it is very easy to built out new environments, set them up as we need, and support their ongoing usage.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish I could get more people at my company onboard with the concept of a single platform is better than multiple platforms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All kinds including base event log index, along with schedule reports and alerting into Email, HipChat, Slack, and EMF, dashboards, and workflow auto-remediations.
Making Your Logs Usable
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to manipulate data in Splunk is unparalleled. Splunk’s powerful and flexible query language can morph difficult to understand log formats into usable data. Correlating data across different systems via one interface will allow you to know your environment or identify incident data in ways you never imagined.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a definite learning curve to starting out. However, there is a quite a bit of documentation out there to help you get started. In addition Splunk documentation, the community (Splunk answers/slack channel/user groups) can help get you moving along a lot faster.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving over to Splunk has enabled our organization to utilize log files that were previously being collected and not reviewed. With Splunk now these logs are constantly reviewed and used to provide insight to who is using applications and how they are using them.
Highly useful
What do you like best about the product?
Log analysis, dashboard to run queries , pretty flexible tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Need people with technical knowledge to make changes, add new dashboards
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Backend system monitoring and troubleshooting
Best Tool Around
What do you like best about the product?
It has made projects more efficient (ease of joining multiple sources together, search times are quicker, etc.) which frees up more of my time to research, explore, and work on more projects
What do you dislike about the product?
Custom visualizations don't export to PDF
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Splunk Enterprise for Business Intelligence and use it to answer questions relating to revenue, product usage, system usage and health, etc. One amazing benefit is that we don't have to grab data from five different applications and join them all together in another tool to analyze. Splunk creates a single pane of glass and allows us to access all the data we need in one place.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking for software the ingests streaming data, CSVs, etc., and can read warehouse data, this is a great tool. The documentation is very thorough for every topic from installation, administration, search, development, etc. The customization is incredible. It is a truly innovative company with an amazing community that is very helpful for answering questions. No other software like it on the market.
We do so much more than just what's listed
What do you like best about the product?
The versatility. We ingest some of the worst looking logs and force them into a usable form, generating reports and dashboards that business users make decisions from. At times I use Splunk as a clearinghouse for terribly formatted data that I don't even directly use, taking data that makes my BI team cry, reformatting it, cleaning it up and shoving it into a database for them to use further down the pipe. In the more standard uses, we use it to correlate various pieces of information from across our environment to identify when weird things are happening so we can better address them. But two of its primary strengths are the quality of the documentation and the thriving and active user community (answers.splunk.com, User Groups, their Slack channel and so on) who are always willing to help out if you need it!
What do you dislike about the product?
There's can be a significant amount of complexity, some of which is due to the domain across which it works, but some of which hasn't been smoothed over yet by Splunk. This is mostly not in the core product but in some of the Apps, which just need a little work. See comments on the community above, though - there are replacement apps and lots of help available on the Slack channel and in Answers!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The quick ability to make sense of new data has changed how we react to many situations, speeding up responses to complex questions we may have. The ability to correlate all the disparate events thrown out by all our devices and distill them into a small set of events that are actually unusual is one of the cornerstones of how we react to anomalies.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Splunk Fundamentals I is a ~8 hour free online course that gives you a basic understanding of how Splunk works, I recommend signing up for that and using that as your springboard. There's a free download of Splunk Enterprise that enables all features for 30+ days, you can switch it to a free version after that which costs nothing. Then get into Answers and into Slack in the Splunk user group channels and start playing around!
Excellent Product
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use Splunk offers makes using the tool a breeze. You don't have to be a developer to get your hands dirty going through machine data and finding good use cases for the tool
What do you dislike about the product?
As your data ingest grows, so does the cost. This can become pricey if you're not careful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrity monitoring, trend data, and workstation data issues are the biggest uses we have for Splunk. The quickness in finding the information you're looking for was a massive benefit
Yes it’s always working
What do you like best about the product?
It sits by idle- or it seems to be but any and every change to your system will be logged for ease of recovery
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. A very well thought out solution for any business
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick automated Rollback
Sr. Database Administrator
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk provides a great ease in reading the logs. It helps us analyze the metrics on a regular basis to troubleshoot production issues. We have been using Splunk for quite a few years now and it has always been a great tool use to analyze the data patterns and alert us on all performance related issues and pattern matching.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much of dislike on the product. It's more of how much I can help reviewing the production to help it enhance its ease of use.
It would be great to have multiple levels of automation setup within splunk where in it allows users to choose what exactly they want by looking at the earlier patterns and usage of the product. By showing this suggestions, it will be easy for the users to make sure they take into consideration the suggestions shown by splunk to make a wise decision whether to go ahead with the suggestion or implement a new one.
It would be great to have multiple levels of automation setup within splunk where in it allows users to choose what exactly they want by looking at the earlier patterns and usage of the product. By showing this suggestions, it will be easy for the users to make sure they take into consideration the suggestions shown by splunk to make a wise decision whether to go ahead with the suggestion or implement a new one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using splunk to log all our web and application logs. Using this log we are having a great ease at the time of post mortem an issue to take a look at the pattern and troubleshoot accordingly.
also for any issues which pop-up during the connection timeouts, we are able to pin point which user its creating problem and take the necessary steps.
Splunk is helping us choose and make our lives easy by ease of use.
also for any issues which pop-up during the connection timeouts, we are able to pin point which user its creating problem and take the necessary steps.
Splunk is helping us choose and make our lives easy by ease of use.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its a great product
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