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.

At first, we were deployed on-premises and then about one year ago we migrated to the cloud. So I would say they did most of the work around migration. There are around 1,000 users of this solution in our company.

The initial setup was straightforward. One person was required for the deployment.

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.

The deployment process isn't complicated. We installed Splunk on a VM and started it. We have a team to deploy and monitor it.

The simplicity of the setup is great. It's easy to configure. Splunk is very straightforward. 

To have the solution up and running, you can deploy it in three hours. There might be more integration that needs to be done on top of that. There are a few other items that may make the deployment a bit longer, depending on the setup. 

Installing the system is very easy. However, for it to be useful, you need to customize it to integrate with your current use cases. You might have to spend some time testing use cases. It's important to understand the use cases before doing the configurations.

We have a manager and a few engineers that can handle deployment and maintenance tasks. 

It is not possible to set up the solution without the assistance of Splunk professionals. A professional services representative must be present to handle the Splunk ITSI implementation.

The initial setup is very straightforward. That said, the configuration and all those things you need to do to make it work according to what you want, you need to deploy some apps, and some that part is what is not straightforward about the setup.

The deployment took about three months.

There are three of us that handle deployment or maintenance. 

The solution's initial setup process was straightforward. It took our company a week to complete the deployment process.

The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex.

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward, without too much problem.

You have to take the training, otherwise, you are going to have trouble.

The deployment takes between two and three hours.

Nothing is straightforward in data technology. You have to know about the technology. Even when chatting about the virtual image for a window, we need to know how to do things. If you know how the technology works, it's really simple.

I do not think the initial setup was very complex.  

The initial setup is easy.

Splunk has a good community. They have good opinions and suggestions for deployment.

It took one year to deploy and implement Splunk completely.

The initial setup is not straightforward. It's quite complex. 

The storage backend requires touching all of your events sources. It requires a lot of planning and configuration. It's not something you just put out there and deploy. You have to have someone who's an expert in it.

The deployment typically takes, from beginning to end, less than three months. However, it really depends. It depends upon how many log sources you have, if you have staff on-site that are capable of actually running it, or if you have to make network configuration changes, etc. There's a whole list of things that you have to go through to figure it out. 

The number of people needed to deploy the solution varies upon the size of an organization and the use cases. You're going to want at least two dedicated people to deploy at a medium-sized organization.

These individuals have to understand searching and creating dashboards. They have to have network skills and security skills. There is a wide range of things they have to be a part of. Most people who become Splunk Engineers start off doing something else in their business and they learn about networking, and then security and programming. When they start to deploy Splunk, they become experts.

The initial setup is very easy.

For me, the initial setup seemed quite easy and not complicated at all. We are in the business so a little knowledge helps.

The initial setup is straightforward and you can do it yourself.

I would say that the setup is pretty straightforward because they have their own documentation that you can follow. It takes an associate's capability in order to accomplish it. They have good documentation and dedicated support to take care of any issues that come forward.