Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Room for Improvement

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

A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers. At the Splunk conference, some of the talks have been about the AI platform and more effective and easier ways to search within Splunk through indexes and other things. These features will help correct some of the things with which we are having a hard time with some of our customers.

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

We have both on-prem and cloud, and the challenge is getting all our log data aggregated or streams aggregated so that it is real-time. We do a pretty good job of that, but our organization is not using it as a security platform when it can do a great job of that. We have other tools that we use, but we should leverage this more in our organization because we have already got the tools and the software.

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

We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features. I know Splunk has plans to move their cloud features into Enterprise at some point. The only improvement we would like is to have more features put into Enterprise that focus on the cloud. Some people come from an on-prem environment and slowly move to cloud and would have to make a full jump into the Splunk Cloud licensing to get any of the cool Cloud features.

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ON
Network & Systems Administrator Individual Contributor at T-Systems

Overall, I cannot think of any features that are missing.

The deployment can be quite complex. 

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Peder Illum - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Medcom

It's a bit difficult to use. It takes some time to get into it and to get it to do what you would like it to do. It is not straightforward to use it. Once you have the dashboards for collecting and analyzing transactions configured, they are okay, but it takes some time to do it. Configuration could be easier.

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

They need to offer better endpoint protection. They don't have their own platform for endpoint protection. It would be helpful if they added something that addressed that. They need more EDR functionalities. 

Support could be faster. 

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

The clustering part of indexes can be more refined.

They can cut down a bit at the monetary level for the long-time customers. We recently had a scenario where we were in discussions to see if there was any flexibility from Splunk's side.

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

There's a component in this solution that is particular and takes a lot of manual work and that is the automation. There is a lot of room for improvement with the automation. They should also improve the discovery and detection of all the infrastructure components so that it is more automated and takes less manual work.

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

I don't see any issues yet because my use case has not been finalized. The point is, if anyone is going to acquire Splunk ITSI, their primary purpose should be to ensure that all infrastructure assets in production are logged into Splunk to ensure complete monitoring is enabled. Each organization has its own criteria for the importance of its applications and servers. All of these must be added for the monitoring to be effective.

The implementation can be more user-friendly.

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

Splunk could be better integrated with configuration manager solutions so we can automatically resolve issues without human interference. 

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DermotCasey - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Technology Consultant at Vodafone

The solution's stability is an area that has room for improvement. It needs to provide constant stability to its users. Also, the price of the license for the solution could be a bit better.

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MA
System Administrator at Nournet communications

The price has room for improvement.

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