Splunk Cloud Platform Initial Setup

Raul Lapaz - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Sec Eng at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The Initial deployment was very straightforward because we had the skills. But I would not say that this is straightforward without the skills. We need to learn at least the basics. 

The deployment took six months to create this multi-tenant environment because it's a highly specialized setting. It's distinct from a typical Splunk deployment that might only take a day or two. However, the process of configuring, migrating all the data from Sumo Logic to the new Splunk Cloud, and setting up the multi-tenant system along with product dashboards, required approximately six months of effort on our part.

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SK
Support Engineer at American Express

It took us a long time to switch from on-prem to the cloud. It took almost four to five months.

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PN
Sr Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I was initially involved in the whole migration process. We used to have the Splunk on-prem instance, and only application teams were utilizing it. We bought the Splunk Cloud Platform, and we merged both the application and security into the Splunk Cloud Platform.

Cloud deployment is pretty easy because you do not have to manage any of your infrastructure. They take care of that. 

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Sahil Sanskar Jha - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I was involved in the deployment of the solution. 

Whenever a new resource or a new agent comes into the picture, in an organization, it's always complex. I don't blame Splunk for it, or my firm. It's like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and it's the developers who need to cut the pieces. It works really well as of now. 

The deployment took somewhere between six to eight months.

We did need a lot of resources or staff members for the deployment. We have a vast infrastructure. We have a dedicated team inside as well who manage incidents and tickets using platforms like ServiceNow, and we still have a lot of resources dedicated to maintaining Splunk. The number of resources that are required to maintain it is more than the number of resources we use for development, actually.

How many people you need depends on the region. I work for Asia and North America. So for us, it was not much personnel. We needed four to five people in the development. There were somewhere around ten to fifteen people working on different parts.

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Chetankumar Savalagimath - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Splunk Cloud Platform’s initial setup was quite easy.

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Nagendra Nekkala. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager ICT & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited

The initial deployment was straightforward. The deployment took around four hours and required two people.

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John David Cabanglan - PeerSpot reviewer
Splunk Architect Application Software Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I do not have any experience with the initial setup. Since it is a cloud deployment, Splunk handles the maintenance mainly.

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Mohammed Ibrahim Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev/DevOps(Build/Deployment/TE Support) & Governance(Audit, Intake and Currency) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup of Splunk Cloud was complex because we have a lot of logs. We had a lot of architectural setup discussions but we were able to do it. The level of difficulty for the implementation is in the medium range. It took us approximately 25 minutes.

It's an agent-based system, and you only have to enable it. There is an access control setup to control what to send, and what not to send. The deployment was quick. The adaptation or the implementation takes time  because you've got to go through all the infrastructure setup

I rate the initial setup of Splunk Cloud a four out of five.

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KK
Senior InfoSec Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

My knowledge of Splunk has since grown exponentially, but the first time I deployed Splunk Enterprise eight years ago, it was unbelievably hard. There were so many moving parts and things to consider. It was too much for one person to figure out, and I didn't have the budget to get help from the Splunk team.

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CA
Splunk Administrator at a government with 11-50 employees

I was involved in its deployment. Its complexity level was 50/50, but that was expected because of the lack of training initially. We had an awesome team from Splunk that helped us out. They were there for us for at least a month. They helped us and then trained us on the environment. By the time they left, we were good to go.

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NG
Manager Cloud Operations at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

It's a cloud, it's all managed service. The only thing we had to do is onboard our applications, which is something I do every day.

It's very straightforward and very easy. You only need to configure and get data and you can be onboarded within minutes. We don't have to go through a lot of configurations, manual steps, or training.

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AA
Head of Cloud at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

It was deployed on a public cloud. Its setup was quite complicated. A lot of steps were involved in implementing it.

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DT
Automation Developer at TNS

I help from time to time with the migration process, but I am not necessarily in charge of the total migration functions that we currently have today. The most I have done in terms of deploying to the cloud was creating a custom alert action for the cloud environment, which is one of my biggest contributions so far. I am not completely in charge of it, but from time to time, I will assist in the migration process. It is a bit of a learning curve, but once you get more and more familiarized with the cloud and how to benefit from it by using features like federated search, it becomes easier. It is somewhere in between in terms of complexity.

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AK
SIEM Engineer at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup is somewhat complex regarding the CI/CD pipeline, and Splunk manages the deployment. Splunk provides a feature called ACS, which enables us to manage the deployment ourselves if desired, but it's simpler to have Splunk handle the deployment on our behalf.

The deployment took around one month and required ten people from Splunk's DevOps team.

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SH
Infrastructure Admin at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I wasn't involved in the setup directly but I was aware of what they were doing. The setup is a little complex. We had some issues we had to deal with. Bringing both environments together and getting the different environments to communicate with Splunk Cloud was complex. We have a lot of data. Getting a handle on that before we were able to start sending data to the cloud was complex. 

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TM
Performance Engineer at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was not involved in its deployment.

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FredericHebert - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was not involved with the setup of the on-prem one, but I was involved with the migration to the cloud. My experience was interesting because I started from zero, but with the help of Splunk's professional teams, we could achieve our project. On a personal side, it helped me to gather the knowledge that brought me here at the Splunk conference.

The setup is always challenging. We had four or five people involved in the migration. We also involved a lot of key players in application migration. We had 20 to 30 people involved at some point in the migration path.

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AK
Cloud Architect at Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd

Splunk Cloud is pretty straightforward and easy to set up. It is a SaaS solution, so we don't have to do anything on our end.

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PS
Tech Support Supervisor at a government with 10,001+ employees

I was not involved in its deployment. It was already implemented.

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SO
Sr BigData Infrastructure Architect at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

The setup and installation of the product are straightforward.  

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NL
DevOps engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It is not that complex. We just need the knowledge. We just need to know how to query the alert and set up dashboards. As compared to AppDynamics and Grafana, it is a lot easier.

Our dev team could set up a dashboard and deploy everything in two weeks.

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SN
Senior Analyst at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup is straightforward. 

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PL
CYBERSECURITY ANALYST at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I have previously done deployments of Splunk. The setup is pretty straightforward. 

Were a system integrator of Splunk. We help clients set up the solution. 

We've had six or seven people setting up the solution. 

The maintenance is pretty manageable. I'd rate maintenance needs seven out of ten. 

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BR
Director - Corporate Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I was new to Splunk and had a problem with understanding the forwarders and worker safety management.

My team was able to install it themselves. 

In terms of how long it took to deploy, between coding, testing, and other things, it took about four weeks to complete the project to complete the initial installation. Altogether it was four to five weeks. They should improve the customization. 

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JS
Owner at a reseller with 1-10 employees

Installing Splunk Cloud, itself, is nothing. The length of time for the total deployment depends on how many log sources that you have. It can be completed in a matter of hours.

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it_user1061643 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Developer, Solution Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is straightforward, although we still revisit it. We started several months ago and are still trying to set it up in a more structured way. Really, we are still in the deployment stage in some regards because we are struggling with exactly how it should be set up.

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OI
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was straightforward and took approximately 20 minutes.

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SO
Founder at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees

The initial setup is very straightforward. 

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