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What is Splunk Enterprise?
Splunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.
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Splunk Enterprise Rocks !!
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Splunk Enterprise in the Cloud empowers me as an analyst
Robust IT Operations and SIEM Management Solution
Great for almost anything
Security/Data Analytics Solution That Comes with SIEM Capabilities
Splunk leads the pack
One Splunk to rule them all!
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Splunk Enterprise - Log collection & aggregation
Won't you take me to Splunkytown
Excellent product for our cybersecurity team
Splunk Enterprise: A powerful, but expensive tool
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Popular Features
- Custom dashboards and workspaces (54)8.585%
- Centralized event and log data collection (53)6.565%
- Event and log normalization/management (53)6.060%
- Correlation (52)6.060%
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What is Splunk Enterprise?
Splunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.
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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Security Information and Event Management is a category of security software that allows security analysts to look at a more comprehensive view of security logs and events than would be possible by looking at the log files of individual, point security tools
- 6.5Centralized event and log data collection(53) Ratings
Effectiveness of real-time centralized event and log data collection
- 6Correlation(52) Ratings
Correlation of logs and events to pinpoint significant threats
- 6Event and log normalization/management(53) Ratings
Ability to normalize event syntax so that logs can be compared and are machine-understandable
- 7.5Deployment flexibility(49) Ratings
Ability to tune system to maximize threat detection and minimize false positives
- 7.5Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools(49) Ratings
Integration with access control tools like Active Directory and LDAP
- 8.5Custom dashboards and workspaces(54) Ratings
dashboards that can be customized to meet the needs of specific groups
- 7Host and network-based intrusion detection(37) Ratings
Ability to detect both endpoint intrusion and network ingress detection
- 8.4Data integration/API management(5) Ratings
Ease and quality of data integrations between SIEM and other systems
- 7.8Behavioral analytics and baselining(4) Ratings
How effectively activity and behavior baselines are established and maintained
- 7.8Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds(4) Ratings
Effectiveness of manually-established rules and algorithmically-determined detection thresholds
- 6.9Response orchestration and automation(4) Ratings
Quality of built-in response orchestration and automation in Next-Gen SIEM
- 7.9Reporting and compliance management(4) Ratings
Ease and quality of reporting and compliance functions
- 8.9Incident indexing/searching(5) Ratings
Effectiveness of searching across structured and unstructured events and incidents within SIEM
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Valuable Log Gathering and Summarization: Users have expressed positive opinions about Splunk's ability to gather and summarize log messages from multiple sources. Many reviewers find this feature valuable, as it allows them to easily access and analyze log data in a centralized location without the need for manual aggregation.
Simplicity and Advanced Search Capabilities: Splunk's reporting functionality is highly regarded by users for its simplicity and advanced search capabilities. Several reviewers appreciate how easy it is to use Splunk's reporting features, while also being able to perform complex searches that provide detailed insights into their data.
Effective Web Traffic Catching and Dashboards: The effectiveness of Splunk in catching web traffic and providing helpful dashboards is another aspect praised by users. Many reviewers highlight how Splunk's web monitoring capabilities enable them to track website activity effectively, while the intuitive dashboards allow for quick visualization and analysis of important metrics.
Confusing User Interface: Some users have reported that the user interface in Splunk can be perplexing, leading to difficulties in quickly performing tasks and navigating the software.
Limited Integration with Excel: Users have expressed their desire for improved integration between Splunk and Excel when it comes to creating reports and dashboards. They feel that better connectivity and seamless data transfer would enhance their workflow.
Steep Learning Curve: Several users have mentioned the complexity of Splunk's architecture, requiring a dedicated team of engineers to effectively manage and optimize its performance. This steep learning curve can pose challenges for new users who may need additional time and resources to fully grasp the intricacies of the platform.
Based on user reviews, the following recommendations emerged for using Splunk:
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Ensure the correct subscription: Users emphasized the importance of having the correct subscription for Splunk to avoid login issues and fully utilize its features. They recommend careful planning of the deployment and learning as much as possible before implementing a large installation.
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Thoroughly investigate anomalies: While Splunk's great dashboards for troubleshooting are praised, users advise against relying solely on system alerts generated by Splunk. They suggest continuing to investigate any anomalies and carefully setting up sources and background data in Splunk.
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Utilize Splunk's log analysis capabilities: Many users recommend Splunk as a valuable tool for log analysis and improving the quality of current processes. They find it helpful for debugging integration issues and consider it suitable for large-scale applications/systems. Users appreciate its ability to connect to individual boxes and view multiple logs simultaneously.
It should be noted that some users suggest that there may be better and cheaper alternatives for small to medium-sized businesses, while others propose improvements to the search result UI and pricing structure to attract more users in the industry.
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(1-25 of 69)Splunk enterprise stable solution
- Ingest data and present it in a easy to read and process format
- Correlation
- Analysis and presentation of data
- Ease of operation and maintenance compared to other solutions of its kind
- Easier to implement and maintain than other solutions
- It would be useful to have more standardization of some of the information stored
- An expensive solution
- Documentation could be more accurate and up-to-date
Great if you have the money
- Searching of information.
- Report building
- Flexibility
- Cost
- Easier guides
- Data normalization.
Splunk Enterprise Rocks !!
- Act as a Search Head, Indexer and Forwarder
- Have full features to install Add-Ons
- Is On-Prem, so we have full control on created lookups on file system
- Better SPL Intelligence
- Add-On's auto upgrade management and notifications
- Implement more features on UI instead of config based implementations
Real-time smart meters
- Real-time status
- Data integration
- Live dashboards
- Automated machine learning
- Extract transform and loading
- Data modeling
Splunk Enterprise in the Cloud empowers me as an analyst
- Gets data from anywhere
- Variety of supported alert types
- Real-time insights
- They should not remove support for Duo 2fa.
Robust IT Operations and SIEM Management Solution
Splunk has the ability to correlate data from disparate data sources and provide root cause hence reducing MTTR and improving our SLA's with our customers. The events logged in Splunk help our IT Analyst and Security Analyst take proactive action before impacting the services which our customer uses. The Event Correlation helps us find RCA and improve MTTD and MTTR.
- Collect data from multiple data sources and correlate. Reduce alert noise from multiple monitoring systems.
- Monitor alerts and report on data collected. Create custom dashboards.
- Powerful machine learning and AiOPS functionality.
- Helps with our security compliance and addresses the security team's need to remain PCI compliant.
- Splunk data sizing and data collected. Worked with Professional Service to scale our environment.
- Capacity data storage for Splunk data.
- TuningSplunk analytics dashboards for performance.
Great for almost anything
- The power of it. It's a very good tool that does amazing things. Nothing comes close to it.
- It can ingest any data and present it in a digestible, searchable format.
- Flat file format makes it very fast and the best visualizations I've seen.
- It can be cost prohibitive, but I still think it's worth it.
- Training users is a little bit steeper, but once they have it, it's very powerful.
- Data Normalization
- Correlation
- Data Analytics
- Use Case Development Capability
- Cost
Splunk leads the pack
- Single source of truth for all log files.
- Alerting system based on captured log data.
- Reporting/Dashboard system to present data.
- Complex overall architecture.
- Long implementation time.
- High cost.
- Requires on-going staff time to keep running effectively.
One Splunk to rule them all!
- Maximize endpoint logging.
- Can find and store logs from all types of assets.
- Customization of dashboards.
- Creating apps based on your needs.
- Alarm feature alerts relevant people in the organization.
- Data visualization.
- Search queries can be saved for future or even can be converted to apps.
- Slow interface.
- Network teams can easily see if there is a problem with the network device.
- The security team can easily be notified about anomalies that may due to an intrusion.
- The support team can follow the situation of assets and tools.
- It can be integrated with most of the tools available on the market.
Splunk Enterprise review
- Log analyzing.
- Reports.
- Forecast (ML model).
- Stability on some components (e.g. indexers).
- Complexity of install and maintenance of infrastructure.
Setup and maintenance would not be easy, so always plan ahead. Also always do health check for stability on some of the Splunk components such as indexers and HFs.
Splunk Enterprise - Log collection & aggregation
We are now using it as a security tool, ingesting logs from lots of different sources and even our cloud platforms.
Currently it is just our IT team that use Splunk.
- Dashboards/visualisations.
- Can ingest any type of data.
- Flexibility with filtering, etc.
- Steep learning curve.
- Full stack reporting (though with SignalFX being purchased by Splunk, this is clearly a high priority).
- Team needed to manage large installations.
The obvious wall is the cost of the product and for that reason I would say smaller businesses would not be suited to this as there are free solutions that could bridge this gap.
Won't you take me to Splunkytown
We believe we can apply Splunk to other data, in time, specifically aiding the company with analyzing financial information, but this is not yet an active project.
- Fast, efficient
- Solid community of experts and training materials
- Ingests data from many sources, with a large number of partner relationships
- There is a high learning curve. If you go to a Splunk demo or class, get inspired, then install it yourself, you'll have no idea what you're meant to do. It's not intuitive to the first-time user in any way.
- Pricing can be confusing. People ask how much data you want to ingest, and you don't know until after you've been using Splunk. It's not easy to sign up and start without guesswork.
- I found online help pages are broken or out-of-date, or incomplete. e.g. pages on setting up the Java-based SQL Server driver don't even tell you where to download it or where to install it.
It's not suited for scenarios where you want to report on a single set of data, say, in a traditional way, for example, a typical scheduled report out of a finance system.
Excellent product for our cybersecurity team
- Central dashboard for all logs
- Enterprise Security
- Better dashboard graphics
Splunk Enterprise: A powerful, but expensive tool
- Robust collection of plugins to support specific applications
- Relatively easy to use
- Strong and helpful support
- Difficult to master
- Can be very complicated to implement into an environment
- Very expensive
Monitor log and alert quickly with the speed of Splunk Light
- Splunk Light is perfect for standalone on-premise deployment.
- Mainly works well for a small team
- Scalability might be an issue
- A small limit on the number of the user also poses a challenge for large team collaboration.
Splunk is a single tool that does everything
- Log mining.
- Able to consume multiple log sources.
- Provides the possibility to upgrade the Splunk UF from a deployment server.
- Splunk search language can be very expensive if the users do not know what they are doing.
Splunk-ing across the Enterprise
- Quick log queries across different types of infrastructure
- Adaptable dashboards for digesting large amounts of continuous data
- Easy access and sharing of information via URL links
- Building Splunk queries can be comber some without intricate knowledge of Splunk and the applications involved
- Dashboard duplication for different areas can be difficult
- Capturing all necessary data from cloud platforms is not always straightforward
Using Splunk in Educational Sectors
- Timely alerting
- Sharing with end users automatically
- Less impact
- Sometime we see the Splunk agent taking higher CPU from OS prospects
- Similar issues have been noticed in Oracle Databases
Splunk: The log expert
The log sources are typically firewall logs, email logs, logs from the Intrusion detection system (IDS), logs of different services running on the google cloud, etc. It offers a very easy interface and a query language. We can build our own alarm rule and UI within it for visualization. The rules will run at a time defined by the user and will send metrics to the email. It helped in automating blacklisting as now we can get the most troublesome IP addresses and block them in a minute. It also helped us in tracing a list of most vulnerable on the campus. The most powerful feature is the correlation of log sources. Correlation of log sources is a very taxing process for any software. Splunk handles this gracefully. By correlating firewall traffic, wireless and IDS traffic we once spotted a machine that had a trojan in it and was trying to spread itself laterally through open SMB ports.
- It is very useful in creating custom rules for analyzing system logs and display relevant information. The query language is very easy to learn.
- We can create custom UI to visualize the output of our data. The interface is very flexible. It also allows the sharing of rules among users.
- There is an open online community to help others. Stackoverflow also has a splunk community. These resources make it more convenient to learn.
- They can introduce a query builder for non-technical users.
- The query error messages could be more specific.
Cons: If you have a few logs but a large number of log sources, Splunk can be very expensive.
A real-time monitoring system
- Love the real-time monitoring system.
- Easy to use.
- I have no suggestions.
- Captures multiple different information about a customer and his/her session.
- Intuitive and informative search options.
- Option to set up precise alerts for different KPIs.
- The speed of the tool could be improved.
- It could store and allow to search for historical data older than 60 days (may be related to our company license).
- Dashboard creation could be more user-friendly.
Splunk, a great tool!
- Versatile
- Intelligent
- Reporting
- Searching
- Log analysis
- Costly
- Needs training to work on
- Needs hands on experience to get used to
- Monitoring and Alerting: Creating custom actions based on log entries was the largest unexpected bonus for us. While we had other software configured to do this job Splunk was easy to implement and could be managed by a larger number of our team members.
- Cross-Device Analysis: Seeing data from all of your devices in one location makes following event chains much easier.
- Vendor Specific Add-ons: There is a large library of vendor-specific add-ons for the software allowing for automatic formatting and action for certain types of logs, greatly reducing the man-hours required to get started.
- Splunk Light doesn't include the ability to create data models or tables without paying for a large upgrade. This is a rather basic feature, I wish it had been included.
- High Availability is another basic feature that is excluded, greatly limiting Splunk Light's usefulness.
- Tight access control via a variety of mechanisms to restrict users to specific logs.
- Solves regulatory controls by providing access control and archival storage capabilities.
- Provides a quick mechanism to search across multiple logs for issues between systems.
- Splunk can be expensive since it's based on the amount of logging you do. The capabilities definitely make up for the cost, but there is a high bar to entry.
- Splunk can be overly confusing for new users. The capabilities are quite vast and sometimes daunting.