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    Avery Deloach

Very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments but licensing should be simplified

  • July 20, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

How has it helped my organization?

Right now it improves the gap between our on-prem data centers and our cloud environment. We've been using Splunk on-prem for eight or nine years now and it's been useful seeing existing tools that we've used like Splunk integrate into cloud environments and bridge that gap. We use the integration the most.

It has reduced our mean time to resolve. It's been easy to aggregate logs and infrastructure data in one place, making it easier to find a single point as opposed to jumping around tools. It's ten to fifteen percent better. It makes aggregating data and logs faster for our cloud purposes.

What is most valuable?

There's a feature that allows you to connect to AWS infrastructure that we've been using. Its integration with the cloud is what we're looking forward to the most.

It is very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments. It's like a single pane of glass for us. We can use it to monitor our on-prem and both of our cloud environments as opposed to having different tools for each environment. It makes it all come together in one tool.

It's fairly important that it has end-to-end visibility into our native environment. We host a lot of other programs in our program. We host an infrastructure platform. It's good to have the integration that we can pass on to our customers to show them that there are tools they can use to better their program while we're using them to better ours. So it's been pretty beneficial.

Splunk's ability to predict, identify, and solve problems in real-time is good. I was very happy with the keynote. A lot of the use of machine learning is cool. We're excited to get our hands on that once it makes its way to Enterprise.

What needs improvement?

We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features. I know Splunk has plans to move their cloud features into Enterprise at some point. The only improvement we would like is to have more features put into Enterprise that focus on the cloud. Some people come from an on-prem environment and slowly move to cloud and would have to make a full jump into the Splunk Cloud licensing to get any of the cool Cloud features.

For how long have I used the solution?

The program that I'm on has been using Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring for around three years now. We started off mainly on-prem for data centers and we've slowly migrated into AWS and Azure for cloud footprint.

The company has been using Splunk since we were a lot smaller. We were using Splunk for data logs, aggregation, and things like that.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's very stable. We've never had issues with that. Anytime we do have stability issues, it's something that we can work on to fix. It's not an inherent flaw with the product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is excellent. That's what Splunk is designed for, big data aggregation. It's been very easy and seamless to scale up over the years.

How are customer service and support?

I've only had a couple of Splunk support cases, and they've been very, very prompt in responding, especially compared to some of the other big enterprise tools we use.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

What was our ROI?

We have seen ROI. It's made onboarding better and it's easier for engineers in our project because there's a single pane to view all of these different environments.

We have seen time to value. It makes it a lot easier to train new people and get them spun up. We had our cloud environment for a couple of years before we started integrating with Splunk. It was a pretty quick improvement within a couple of months, noticing how beneficial it was to have a single pane of glass in all of our different environments.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I understand Splunk wants people to move towards Cloud licensing for a lot of the newer features, especially for multi-cloud. It would be nice to see those in Enterprise. I understand why they do it but that is my main concern. 

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring a seven out of ten. There's more we can do with it. We just haven't explored it. 


    Rodney Riettie

Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively

  • July 20, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

We mainly use it for different divisions and departments within our company to keep track of our systems' health. We also ingest log files to get data and alerts for different groups.

How has it helped my organization?

We used to use a number of different tools before we were introduced to Splunk. We used to have a very hard time getting this data in and being able to effectively use it because we had such a massive amount of data. We also could not find a way to organize it effectively. Splunk helped us to effectively use all the data that we collect in a valuable way for different customers and groups that we have in our company.

It has definitely helped reduce our meantime to resolve (MTTR). A lot of our customers have difficulty getting to root cause analysis of different problems and situations. They also do not have the data to perform analytical responses for different problems that there could be within our industry. They are now able to use this data effectively, not just for alerting, but also for preventative maintenance.

It has definitely improved our organization’s business resiliency by a lot. I do not have the actual data to share at this time, but there has been a marked improvement in the organization. We are now able to keep track of all the raw data that we pull in and then use it effectively. This helps our organization run more efficiently.

It has improved our organization's ability to predict, identify, and solve problems in real time. We are able to use data and search for it effectively. We have different analytical forms and data that we can use to improve in different ways. 

What is most valuable?

The most valuable thing that we have seen within our group is the ability to ingest all this raw data and have it organized in a certain way so that different groups can get effective alerting from this massive amount of raw data that is out there.

What needs improvement?

A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers. At the Splunk conference, some of the talks have been about the AI platform and more effective and easier ways to search within Splunk through indexes and other things. These features will help correct some of the things with which we are having a hard time with some of our customers.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for about four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We are not on the cloud. We are all on-prem. We have had certain issues with space on the servers and things like that, and while moving things up to what we need, we have not had any issues on the Splunk side.

How are customer service and support?

It is great. We have not had any major issues with getting support from Splunk. With our monthly license, there are a certain amount of hours that we have with Splunk support. We are able to use it when we are getting close to the end of the month. In our meetings, we make a list of different topics that we would like to explore and discuss with Splunk. We create meetings for that, and they are always very helpful. We never had any issues in getting support from Splunk. I would rate their support a ten out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used to use Tivoli. We also use AppDynamics in addition to Splunk for different parts, but we are starting to learn that Splunk does have a lot of similar toolsets. Splunk does the same as what AppDynamics does, and in some cases, there are more powerful tool sets that would help us. We are thinking of petering down our different tools to get into one tool, possibly Splunk. We already got rid of Tivoli, and we are using Splunk fully in place of Tivoli. We have seen a positive response to it.

We have seen cost efficiencies by switching to this solution. Because of the wider range of tools that Splunk offers, we were able to get rid of Tivoli and get rid of that licensing obligation on an annual basis. We are able to save a good amount of money on that and move that budget over to our Splunk budget to keep everything under one umbrella.

How was the initial setup?

I was not involved in its deployment. I came on the year after.

We are currently on-prem, but we are working on developing and moving everything over to a Google Cloud platform. The announcement that Splunk is partnering with Google Cloud, in addition to AWS, is pretty good for us because we are working on moving over to the cloud in the next couple of years.

What was our ROI?

We have definitely seen an ROI. Our team is able to spend more time learning one tool as opposed to having to learn multiple different toolsets. Therefore, we are able to get more work done in a more efficient manner.

We have seen time to value using this solution. Our company has a very heavy push toward work-life management. Since we have been able to, especially in our group, switch to this tool, we could cut down on our on-call time and have our groups run on different patterns where people who are off are actually off. They do not have to be called in because essentially, everybody is able to access the tool and use it effectively because it is the one tool that we use as opposed to having different tool sets. Everybody knows how to use it, so it definitely has helped us in that way.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I know there was a panel and a team that was going through different tools. I was not a part of that process, but I know there were quite a bit of tools that they were looking at. Splunk must have worked out better than everything else.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring a ten out of ten.


    reviewer2239860

We can monitor our infrastructure better and respond faster to a problem

  • July 20, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We have our application development and we monitor our websites. I create alerts and dashboards to help us notify if we have any infrastructure issues.

We get our data in and then I create some SQL queries to find out where our averages are and do some predictive analysis. When we deviate from the normal, that is where I like to set up alerts and dashboards. I have alerts that trigger and link to dashboards to see the trend over time or what happened last hour. There is also alerting to the phones.

How has it helped my organization?

I believe Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has improved our organization because, over time, it has always been pinpointing the source of the problem. We have pretty quick responses knowing that we have a problem, and we can drill in pretty quickly to find out where the problem might be occurring. Is it a specific server or is it happening to multiple systems across the board? It is easy to visualize that.

Monitoring multiple cloud environments is pretty easy because it just aggregates from different places, and when we have an outage, we can say, "Oh! Amazon West is having a problem."

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides end-to-end visibility into our cloud-native environment. I am not directly involved with the cloud portion of it, but for our developers, end-to-end observability is important because we have multiple platforms and systems.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has reduced our mean time to resolve. I cannot put a number on that, but compared to years ago, we now do a pretty good job of infrastructure monitoring. We can better monitor a bunch of different aspects of our business.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has improved our organization's business resilience. We do not want to be down, and we do not want people to be not able to pay their bills online.

What is most valuable?

It is a great resource for us because we have so many different data sources and to be able to aggregate that and put it through a concise dashboard or an alert really helps.

What needs improvement?

We have both on-prem and cloud, and the challenge is getting all our log data aggregated or streams aggregated so that it is real-time. We do a pretty good job of that, but our organization is not using it as a security platform when it can do a great job of that. We have other tools that we use, but we should leverage this more in our organization because we have already got the tools and the software.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring since 2019.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is very stable. Especially since we went to the cloud, it just makes it easier for us.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not had any issues there.

How are customer service and support?

Their technical support has been very good. I have not had to use it a whole lot because we have pretty good and experienced staff. We use consultants, and in general, we have been lucky. We work with our representative, and we have hired a couple of contractors. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We have used different solutions in the past. I used CA Wily. New Relic was another tool we had used for a time. 

We had several different tools that we were using for APM monitoring and website monitoring. Over time, we migrated more to the Splunk platform because it helps to aggregate the data. Having to configure all the agents was painful, and Splunk made that a lot easier.

How was the initial setup?

It was pretty easy. We had to set up all of our collectors. Getting our feeds was critical. 

We have an on-prem setup, so we have a lot of forwarders. We are also on the cloud. We have a data center locally, and we have one in Texas. We also have a third one that I like to call the cloud, so we have three different environments that we move between, and it is nice that when we have a problem, we can tell exactly where it is.

What about the implementation team?

John Ansett's company helped us with our initial deployment. They did an excellent job.

What was our ROI?

We have seen an ROI. It is hard to put a price on downtime, but our primary business is travel, insurance, as well as automotive. We are a diverse organization, but our bread and butter is insurance. If there is downtime, people cannot pay their insurance bills online, or they cannot look up the policy and that type of information. Being down is not good for our customers.

We have seen a time to value. I use a lot of dashboards for monitoring, and I have trained other teams in our organization on how to use the tool. It is starting to have a lot of legs now, and we got a lot of different diverse departments using the tool. We are getting a lot of experienced staff to use the tool and make their own desktops.

It is difficult to put a price on how fast you can find a problem and resolve the problem. We have got web services and servers, and sometimes, pinpointing where the problem is took the longest time. Having ITSI observability and Splunk dashboarding together has helped a lot with that.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I am not in that circle, but we are currently licensing based on our queries. That is working out for us. Previously, it was by volume of data, and now, we can store as much data as we want. 

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring a ten out of ten because that is primarily what I use every day. I love the product. 


    Ayush Rohilla

Troubleshoots quickly and offers end-to-end visibility across the environment

  • July 14, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

I am a technology analyst. I have been working on a financial project in the US. For this project, I used Splunk APM for troubleshooting and reviewing the logs, and finding errors. Most of our APIs ran on Splunk APM, and we used it to find errors in our production environment.

We are no longer using Splunk APM. We have switched to Dynatrace.

How has it helped my organization?

Splunk APM is very good for monitoring purposes. You can watch application-to-application flows. If you just click on a flow, you can go step by step and debug an issue. The places with errors are marked in red. The API or the application in which you are getting an error is red. From there, you can go to the log or the error, and then the person responsible for that particular API or application has to fix it.

Splunk APM gives tools for user monitoring, logs observability, infrastructure monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and automated on-call. 

Splunk APM provides real-time data. In the logs, if you want to see errors related to status 404, you can just write one keyword, and you will get the results.

Splunk APM offers end-to-end visibility across the environment, but it also depends on how your business is set up on Splunk APM.

Splunk APM helped to reduce our mean time to resolve (MTTR). Previously, I had to log into my VPN, run commands, and see the logs. After having Splunk APM, I could click on one link and go through the logs. 

We could set up Splunk APM based on our environment. I worked on one project with Splunk APM. In that project, we faced a lot of issues, and I resolved the issues with the help of Splunk APM. I found the accurate logs and the easiest way to resolve the errors.

What is most valuable?

Splunk APM is the most advanced application for performance monitoring and troubleshooting for cloud-native applications and microservices.

The ability to troubleshoot is valuable. While running any product or API, we need to troubleshoot issues. We need to find the error in the logs. In Splunk APM, we have the section logs. In that section, we can search with any particular keywords. Before Splunk APM, I also worked with Splunk Enterprise where we have various dashboards to monitor. 

It is an application performance monitoring and observability tool. It is a very good tool. You need to use the documentation on Splunk's website. From there, you can learn many things. I have Splunk certification. You can dive deep into it. For me, it gives end-to-end visibility into our production environment.

What needs improvement?

They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved. I also use LogMeIn where I can use predefined keywords to see the logs. 

They should give us the option to use our own language to search. For example, I should be able to search for an ID name along with an error or status code. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I worked with Splunk APM for one and a half years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have not faced any downtime. I have worked with Splunk APM for one and a half years, and I did not face any downtime during this duration of time.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have never faced any issues with scalability.

How are customer service and support?

I did not have any need to contact support because I did not face any issues. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used another solution previously. In Splunk Enterprise, it is easier to create dashboards. You can easily set up application alerts and infra alerts. You can search with metrics and you can set alerts based on a specific error. Whenever that error occurs, you will receive an alert.

How was the initial setup?

I am not involved in its deployment. In terms of maintenance, it is owned and managed by Splunk. Everything is maintained by Splunk. I have not faced any downtime with Splunk APM. I have also used Splunk Enterprise previously. With both of these products, I did not face any downtime. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is reasonable.

What other advice do I have?

It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards. You can set alerts based on the threshold or traffic.

For logging purposes, Splunk APM is very good, but we should be able to use our own search query language. Currently, we can only search based on the predefined tags.

Overall, I would rate Splunk APM a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud


    Computer Software

Best platform to draw insights from data

  • May 18, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is capable of handling huge amounts of data easily and supports various formats of data. It can be used to create dashboards and reports with vital meanings for business.
What do you dislike about the product?
Splunk pricing model is too expensive, I think a free version or tier needs for every feature somewhat like Amazon web services. The product compatibility details needs to be more specific if the scaling up requires more data to be handled.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The platform helps the projects and organization's to pipeline the data management, data cleaning and analysis, which reduces the time required to get the meaningful data. It reduces the dependency on data scientists or analysts


    Computer Software

An Average experience with Splunk

  • May 18, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
We use it to collect and analyze metrics from various sources such as applications, lambdas and cron jobs. This helps us to gain insights into performance, resource utilization, and bottlenecks.
What do you dislike about the product?
We are a smaller organization and the pricing structure can be complex and may not be suitable for smaller organizations with limited budgets. The cost of the platform can vary a ton based on different factors such as data volume and additional features, making it less accessible for organizations with limited financial resources
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It help us collect metrics on the services, lambdas and cron jobs that are running. we also use it to do application performance monitoring and log monitoring to ensure nothing is breaking in production.


    Logistics and Supply Chain

Good experience - one of the best alerting softwares

  • May 17, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The main feature I have used is the splunk on-call. Compared to others like pagerduty it provides a better dashboard and on-call scheduling cycles which seems to be nonexistent in pagerduty. And the feature of calling the next person in the oncall cycle helps attend the production issues. One other important feature is that it provides reports with many filters, which makes it easier to analyse at the end of weekly oncall cycles. Splunk is quite easy to integrate with new relic alerting.
What do you dislike about the product?
It could have a feature like setting up schedules for time range such as a person can be oncall for the day time and someone else for the night shift which I think currently is unavailable. Sometimes android phone categorises its calls as junk which can be an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am most familiar with the alerting mechanism of splunk oncall. It helps us respond to production issues on time and customizability over the mode of alerting such as email, mobile or message is great. The mails contain enough info and link to the issues on aws, gcp or even new relic.


    Akash r.

Best tool for production monitoring

  • April 07, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It provides extra traces in production debugging and also it has great notification system.
What do you dislike about the product?
It should have some good beginner tutorial
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping us debugging prodction data and also it has some great dashboard to analyse the
Production data


    Aman P.

Great tool to explore

  • October 24, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Splunk has its own parsing method and auto discovery
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost of Splunk license is high which is not good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Auto discovery and threat reporting


    NIMISH G.

Splunk helps us in moving beyond the logs

  • March 26, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is very user-friendly, easy to use, and most importantly it's very very insightful. The system shows even the complex data in a very simplistic and easy to understand manner.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, nothing to dislike about this product. It is the much needed demand of the time now to have such a product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Taking corrective decisions, better decision making, calculative risks planning, better insights on business opportunities and threats.