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Pros
Effective SIEM Solution: Users have found Splunk Cloud to be a simple and effective solution for consolidating multiple data points and managing alert workflows. Several reviewers have mentioned that it has helped them streamline their security operations and improve incident response.
User-Friendly Interface: The user-friendly interface of Splunk Cloud has been praised by many users, with some describing it as intuitive and easy to navigate. This allows users to easily create custom dashboards for everyday monitoring of multiple parameters without the need for extensive training or technical expertise.
Powerful Search Capabilities: Many reviewers have highlighted Splunk Cloud's powerful query language and fast search indexing capabilities. This enables quick and accurate searching through large volumes of information, such as Windows Server Logs, making it easier for users to find the insights they need in a timely manner.
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Splunk Cloud Platform Reviews
6 Reviews
Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)
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Splunk Cloud is used to provide quick and easy access to important data. This includes metrics about their business, the use of our services, revenue, and errors. Several departments throughout the organization use the data and dashboards available in Splunk.
Pros
Excellent dashboards that provide a quick view of important data.
Easy to create dashboards.
Filtering within the dashboards provides updated dashboards quickly.
Exporting is easy.
Cons
While the dashboards are intuitive, setting them up isn't always as easy. A more intuitive interface would help ensure all users can easily set up dashboards to get the information they need.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want to see the data instead of dig for it, Splunk is helpful for providing the visualizations that speak to the data.
Splunk Cloud is used by the IT department for the majority of the devices that can produce logs. It was initially purchased as a syslog aggregate but has evolved into much more than that now. It addresses the question of log retention and security investigation. It will eventually be expanded to be used across the wider business.
Pros
Searching through logs/data
Data ingestion
Cons
Documentation for add-ons and apps
Support for Splunk Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Splunk Cloud is suited for organisations that have a lot of data from many different data sources and you would like them to be in one tool. It's excellent for splitting data and searching through the different indexes of data. If you only have one data source (syslog from network devices for example) I would say it is less appropriate and would be overkill.
Splunk Cloud is being used by our department. It solved many business problem as it delivers Splunk-as-a-Service hosted securely on the public cloud. With this cloud-ready service, one can enjoy all of Splunk Enterprise features without worrying about hosting the infrastructure and without paying the upfront Splunk licensing cost. Splunk Cloud supports all Splunkbase apps including Premium applications (e.g. Enterprise Security, ITSI, etc.) with pre-packaged searches, dashboards, and reports to create the right story from the data with the power of self-serviceability.
Pros
With Splunk Cloud you get the advantage of moving from POC to Production in a matter of days rather than in months allowing the Business to gain a lot.
Takes you away from managing infrastructure/administration, allows saving time & money. Reduce the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
Move from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring
Highly secure environment at your finger-tips
Cons
Splunk Cloud support is increasing a lot now a days and I see no cons other than the price factor to the other compared products. Overall Splunk Cloud is a very good product all together.
I can see that Splunk Cloud can still improve in the form of SLA.
Splunk Cloud generally lags behind the available splunk upgrades. They are always one version behind the one available for enterprise.
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited for many business use cases where security, performance, and support are the top-most priority, along with the normal use case of Splunk. One would get very good support if the company is using Splunk Cloud and can solve many business problems like seamlessly allowing end users to store, search, analyze and visualize data from different sources of one’s business or IT infrastructure. Splunk Cloud follows the state-of-the-art cloud ready deployment strategies in line with continuous integration/deployment pipeline which is designed for high availability, efficient change management, and robust architecture.
One shouldn't use Splunk Cloud for learning or testing purpose. Such things can be done or fulfilled by Splunk Enterprise as well and would be way cheaper then Splunk Cloud.
We use Splunk to centralize and consume all of our server logs, and various other logs, to monitor for interruptions in service, anomalous activity, and other security-related events. Splunk is primarily used by our DevOps and Security teams. Splunk solved an issue of being able to easily and effectively search hundreds of thousands of log entries in an easy to consume format.
Pros
Splunk is extremely versatile and can consume just about any kind of log out there.
Splunk's search function is very powerful, and allows for some very complex search criteria. Narrowing and/or expanding search results is as simple as a click of the mouse.
There are many different apps/plugins that can be added to Splunk that provide built-in reporting and alerting on certain kinds of events, meaning you don't have to be an expert to use Splunk.
Cons
There is a bit of a learning curve to figure out how to initially use it.
When SAML is set up, there is no apparent way to log out.
Likelihood to Recommend
Splunk is not cheap, so Splunk only makes sense for businesses where there are hundreds of thousands of logs a minute, or where manual processes or open source alternatives can't keep up. You will need to have a dedicated person or two in order to configure and manage Splunk on a very regular business, otherwise, you won't be able to reap the full benefits that Splunk can offer.
Splunk is used by just about every person in our company, from sales, to support, and from dev to operations. It has been adopted at all levels of our organization. We use Splunk to monitor build deployments, support tickets but most especially for operations and finding problems with servers and systems. We have many TVs setup in our Network Operations Center showing various aspects of our infrastructure. Splunk cloud is simply where our data is stored and searched.
Pros
Excellent tool for correlating logs from hundreds of servers and digging into events for a specific time period.
Based on issues found Splunk allows for simple and complex monitoring to alert when the same event or problem is seen again.
Advanced dashboard tools allow for unique and creative perspectives on how to display data in ways relevant to each department in our organization.
Cons
Some of their more advanced features, like ITSI, Machine Learning, or Security Analytics, can be very challenging to setup and configure.
Splunk Cloud support has been a challenge in the past. They are getting better, but they have had problems responding in a timely manner to issues.
These are only some minor observations of things I have had to deal with. In general, Splunk is a solid product that is fantastic to use.
Likelihood to Recommend
Looking for the needle in the haystack is what Splunk excels at. When you have 300 servers all producing logs you need to look at it can be a very daunting task. Splunk allows you to add all of these logs into a central repository to search across all systems. It also helps you find how many times an error is happening and how widespread it is very quickly. I have yet to find an area where Splunk cannot help with searching and obtaining meaningful data from servers and network equipment.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
The current use case is using Splunk Cloud Platform to look for cyber security threats. While there are other tools being used to look for cybersecurity threats. Splunk Cloud Platform has proven to be a reliable and trusted source.
It's also used monitor login attempts and watch traffic patterns and trends. Dashboards have long been used in this product and will continue.
Pros
Monitoring
Dashboards
Searching
Cons
Cost
Configuration
Maintenance
Likelihood to Recommend
What it does well: - Real-time security incident correlation across distributed infrastructure
- Compliance auditing with retention requirements (SOC2, PCI-DSS)
