Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Benefits

Rodney Riettie - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

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. 

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Manish Ved - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Domain Architect (Systems) at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We built a tool for firewall log monitoring and we powered all firewall logs to Splunk. In addition, we built a little dashboard that just specifies sources and the destination addresses and port numbers. It passes all the logs and tell us if there are any blocks or drops on the firewall level. This is a very useful tool for us.

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

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is easy to use. It helps us quickly analyze how our infrastructure is performing across various services.

It helps with proper log management, allowing us to monitor our systems and analyze log data regularly. It also provides security operations capabilities for monitoring system health and ensuring uptime. We noticed these benefits immediately.

Our operational efficiency has been increased. It has improved our system health by monitoring the performance of data on servers, virtual machines, and containers, along with overall background processes.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides end-to-end visibility into our cloud-native environment. This is crucial because any data corruption can impact all the information we've deployed. It also aids in log management, offering parameters that extend its functionality as a comprehensive monitoring tool for CPU, memory usage, and network traffic.

It has helped reduce our mean time to detect by four hours.Our mean time to resolution has been reduced by two hours. By providing access to all our network parameters, it simplifies log ingestion through streamlined calculations.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides us with faster and more comprehensive insights into our infrastructure, allowing us to focus on critical business initiatives.

We saw the time to value immediately after deploying Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.

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Avery Deloach - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at Core4ce, LLC

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.

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CJ
Software Engineer at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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SM
Senior Network Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has enabled us to be more proactive. We can identify and respond to an issue before there is a failure. It has helped us significantly. For example, if somebody is attacking us we can detect that there is an increase in traffic and investigate to see if it's legitimate. We can block them or take other actions before it becomes a problem. 

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Robert Cheruiyot - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Consultant at Microlan Kenya Limited

If anything suspicious happens in the banking system, the solution would be able to identify the threat. We've also been able to identify malicious domains and phishing attacks. 

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Peder Illum - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Medcom

It has given us visibility into what is going on in the network, such as how much traffic is running to and from the services, but we are not using Splunk in a straightforward way. When we are looking into reports on how much data has been used, we need to look into another system and enrich it with data from Splunk.

Splunk has drawn our attention to how the network is running. If there are alarms on things that are not functioning, it gives us early warning on problems that could arise.

In terms of operational performance, the efficiency, Splunk has helped us improve. We could have found other tools that would have given us the same efficiency, but this was the tool that we chose. From that perspective, it has been of value to us.

It would have helped us reduce our mean time to detect but I can only guess at how much; perhaps by 25 percent. And we would see a similar reduction for mean time to resolve.

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SN
Solution Architect(Splunk- Log Management) at Tata Consultancy

If there is an issue or challenge in Splunk at the product level, Splunk's internal log will call out every problem it is facing, which will help us to identify the root cause and fix it. This gives us a clue about what to do next if there is a problem we can understand the issue from the reports.

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ON
Network & Systems Administrator Individual Contributor at T-Systems

We are now able to monitor our infrastructure and get the information in real-time should anything happen. In terms of the hard drive hitting the threshold, then we'll get notified and the technician can attend to it. It reduces the time to attend to the incidents and allows you to be aware of our infrastructure as the status of our infrastructure is visible via dashboards.

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Yaseen Shaikh - PeerSpot reviewer
Splunk and AppDynamics SME at Saudi Networkers Services

It improves our operational efficiency every day. In my previous company, we had integrated it with ServiceNow. For defined alerting conditions, it could directly open up a ticket for the right team. We did not have to look into a thousand cases to understand a problem.

In terms of integrations, most of the plugins are already available. If a plugin is not available, even then it is pretty easy to integrate. There are multiple ways to integrate. You can use the REST API and just forward the data. It can be easily integrated.

It makes it easy to have end-to-end visibility in the cloud environment. There are multiple types of devices in an environment. You might have AWS, Microsoft Azure, or something else. It operates beautifully. It is easy to integrate. This is the best part.

I am in the banking industry. It helps to keep track of how well our application is performing when somebody tries to do a transaction. There are multiple pieces to it, and we keep track of everything. We have our own business dashboard that the top-tier leaders can look into. All the visibility is there because of it.

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MA
System Administrator at Nournet communications

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is easy to use.

The dashboards are good.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has helped improve our operational performance and efficiency. 

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has helped reduce our MTTD by 90 percent.

Our MTTR is good thanks to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.

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JP
Prinicipal Security Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution brings all the events into one platform so that you don't have to hunt down multiple sources to figure out what's going on.

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it_user831168 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO with 11-50 employees

It gives us another tool for monitoring our infrastructure in a different way.

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