Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) Primary Use Case

JOEL MUNDOH - PeerSpot reviewer
Splunk Administrator / Architect at MetLife

Splunk ITSI is used to analyze data and create alerts. This helps us to maintain our security best practices.

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VK
Tech Lead at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

There are multiple use cases, which include heat maps, glass tables, and predictive analysis.

The first one is mainly related to heat maps. For example, if you want to monitor the health of a server, you can prepare heat maps for that. When you set up any kind of alerts, they can get missed because people are too busy to check their emails. With these heat maps, the color changes automatically. The Cron job runs behind the scenes, and you don't need to run them manually. 

You can also set up a glass table in ITSI for the architecture. For example, a setup like Amazon would have web services, databases, queues, and other things. For the purchase and other things, it has to connect to the external world, so you need to place the complete architecture over there, and you can assign the threshold value. If there is an issue with any of the points, for example, there is an issue with the connectivity of the database, the heat maps would change in color, which helps you to easily identify that there is an issue.

It also has a concept called predictive analysis. For example, your WhatsApp chat backup happens every 24 hours or 7 hours, but you cannot predict how much bandwidth it's going to use during the backup. It might even use 100% of the bandwidth. You cannot set a proper threshold. In such cases, you can use predictive analysis. It'll analyze the data patterns, and based on the data pattern, it predicts if everything is good or if something is bad. It can predict if something is going to fail.

You can have an integration with the ticketing tools. For example, if something happens on any server or PC and you've directly integrated the tickets from Splunk to ServiceNow, it's automatically going to create a ticket in ServiceNow.

There's also a concept of episode review wherein it groups the alerts so that there's no ticket spam in ServiceNow. For example, if you are monitoring a server and it's down, there might be 10 to 20 alerts, which would create 10 or 20 separate tickets and spam your ticketing system. In such cases, you can use the episode review feature. It will merge all those tickets into one and include all the details in that.

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Dishank Saxena - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineering Manager & DevOps Lead Global at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution for event management, observability, application management, application performance management, anomaly detection, problem detection, and creating different rules for the anomalies for different events. It's application performance monitoring. The entire area of service is managed by ITSI, and offers automated detection and everything.

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RR
Officer at State Street

We use the solution to monitor our own internal applications. We monitor analogs and various other DB Connect sources.

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Andrew Mahoski - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

We have medical use cases. We monitor batch processes for our medical system. We batch-process data ingestion from our data warehouses just to make sure they're performing appropriately. If there's an outlier we'll report it or create an incident.

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Hari Haran. - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Associate at Positka

We use Splunk ITSI for IT monitoring. It helps us monitor all our servers for things like CPU utilization and other performance metrics. We can integrate complex architectures with the service and connect the core to multiple data sources. Our customers' environments vary. In the last project, they had around eight departments and 75 employees, so I needed a web server for each department.

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TO
Senior Infrastructure Consultant at Netcompany

I work for a consulting company that contracts with an organization to provide operation center services. We use Splunk ITSI as one of our key centralized monitoring tools for the organization. Our goal is to collect data from both the organization's centralized database, Spine, and their cloud platforms, such as AWS and Azure, and send it to Splunk for monitoring. Splunk then creates reports, alerts, and dashboards that we use to visualize the data and make the most of it.

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

It has enabled effective monitoring, allowing for a comprehensive view of the growing complexity within the IT infrastructure.

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SA
Observability Platform Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have used Splunk ITSI to build a lot of glass tables and set up thresholds. We have also used MLTK for machine learning, predictive analytics, and anomaly detection. We use MLTK, which is an external application. We can get notified of issues well before the time to take proactive action.

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GJ
Splunk Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We typically utilize Splunk ITSI to monitor our infrastructure and applications. Essentially, its purpose is to map our technical services and business services up to the host level, enabling us to monitor all the key performance indicators associated with them. Additionally, it serves as a primary tool for root cause analysis and event generation.

We needed a better method for monitoring our infrastructure and applications. Both infrastructure monitoring and application monitoring rely on data files. With Splunk ITSI, we are able to visualize the mapping of end-user entities to the business service. This enables us to easily monitor the impact of our technical services on our business, as well as the underlying information, using Splunk ITSI.

We deploy on Splunk Cloud and, in addition, we utilize ITSI on top of Splunk Cloud. We have another setup where we use Splunk on-premise along with ITSI. Therefore, our team has employed both models. However, if we have a high injection rate and operate in a large environment, we leverage Splunk Cloud with ITSI since we are already utilizing it.

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DV
Lead Solution Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We have some business-oriented monitoring. The technical components are aggregated to business services up to a certain level. We could do a lot more, but this is what we are doing currently.

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Siddharth_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
AIOPS Consultant at Amasol GmbH

We use the solution for intelligence. For example, if I have a website that sells games, it might have a lot of things like databases, servers, et cetera. I can see how many users have logged in, what purchases can be made, and so on. Splunk provides the logs to see all of the data for all actions on the site. I can see things on a technical level, like how CPUs are performing.

I can see things in real-time, and it's based on real data. This is the advantage Splunk has. There is complete visibility and I can monitor KPIs as well.

I can look at how my database looks, how my sales look, et cetera, and all metrics are in one place.

There's machine learning as well, including anomaly detection. You can look at and understand the date very easily. It helps us provide a complete understanding of business so that I can understand anomalies better and watch the daily data. It gives me alerts in which I can take a deeper dive.

I have a ticketing system. If I have a Splunk power user, they can look at the data and create a ticket for future inspection. People can correlate and collaborate on the same ticket.

Basically, everything you need you can find on Splunk. You can also create custom actions. 

We can do actions right on the Splunk UI. 

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MS
Principle Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We are trying to take regular dashboards that we have for monitoring and pull them all together for a high-level view of what is going on.

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RV
Splunk admin and splunk ITSI at Convergys Corporation

Splunk ITSI is our platform for data ingestion from various sources. We leverage it to manage Kubernetes configurations, licenses, reports, dashboards, and user permissions. Additionally, we utilize ITSI for field extraction and data model retrieval.

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Jamiu Olaide - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We utilize Splunk ITSI to enhance our IT operations within our infrastructure. Our goal is to monitor only the most critical KPIs. Additionally, we have access to a detailed overview of the KPI services and entities, allowing us to identify issues in real time. 

We deploy Splunk ITSI both on-premises and in the Splunk cloud. 

We implemented infrastructure monitoring using ITSI to track various aspects such as latencies and specific components like CPU and memory. I can now provide detailed information about the specific cause of CPU-related issues. The problem lies in determining the process through which we can obtain a high-level overview of our services. When we delve deeper, we have access to numerous details to identify the KPI responsible for disrupting the service application. I can now explore ways to monitor its performance and locate the service in question. With ITSI, we can receive alerts and easily navigate to the precise location to resolve the problem.

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SS
Manager at Norwin Technologies

We use Splunk ITSI for better CMDB management and control of all infrastructure devices.

We had many old devices and legacy systems, and architects used to configure them as they saw fit. To streamline and standardize our operations, we had to rely on Splunk. Splunk invented device discovery, which allowed us to learn what devices are on the network, what type they are, and how to classify them. Splunk ITSI has been very helpful to us.

We deployed Splunk ITSI on-premises, and it can also be deployed in the cloud.

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VP
Splunk Engineer at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

Our customer is an internal department. We have about 150 teams that use Splunk and we provide Splunk for all of them. Our IT is currently setting it up for one of them. This customer is really impressed by the Glass Tables, possibilities for management, and the Showcase.

The department that uses ITSI runs the public buses for Switzerland. They use it to collect data about the cars. We will build Glass Tables for them. It's a management summary for tickets. They use it to collect data about the solution flow regarding the response time and ticketing flow. 

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OA
Operation Manager at Totalplay

We use this solution both on the cloud and on-premises. We are currently using the most recent version.

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MU
Software Designer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We use Splunk ITSI to collect the infrastructure metrics and visualize them.

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reviewer1393194 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager at 3M Company

We use ITSI mainly for IT Infrastructure Operations Monitoring. The service model health scores allow us to identify when KPIs are starting to impact our services and to proactively manage our environments. To date, we have leveraged this data within Splunk to enable alerting so that we can solve incidents in real-time, but we are growing into our usage of the ITSI model for predictive modeling of our environment. Our infrastructure includes commodity hardware, mid-range, mainframe, on-premise data center, and cloud offerings. (Please note that these views are my personal opinions and not those of my employer)

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ML
Director INTS IT Resiliency at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I work for the Royal Bank of Canada. I work in a group called Investor and Treasury Services IT. We take care of all the IT systems within the Investor and Treasury Services arm, which is a global unit. My role is to ensure that we have the visibility and capabilities to ensure our systems are resilient so we can resolve any problems that may arise very quickly, and move on. My role generally deals with everything from application performance management to maintenance automation. Overall, my single goal is to increase the resiliency of our applications and gain better insight into how our operations are working from an IT operations and application maintenance perspective. 

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NJ
Marketing Intelligence Expert at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

We use Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) to find out about system outages and reports about the outages. We have a lot of platforms that monitor solutions, outages, and downtime. Still, we're keener on the reporting, and how fast the insights can be generated, so those are our prominent use cases for Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).

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Muhammad Firdaus - PeerSpot reviewer
Splunk Presales & Splunk Technical Engineer at Westcon-Comstor

We primarily use the solution for monitoring our infra.

We use it for monitoring the potential application, depending on what the data source ingestion is. There are many use cases. Based on the data source, we can know the best recommendation use case to provide to the customer. For example, if you are ingesting data from the firewall, you can see any traffic from the firewall itself.

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Shashank Gahoi. - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I use Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) for SIEM.

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PM
Senior consultant specialist-ITID at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our use cases for Splunk ITSI have been created around our critical services like payment gateways.

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LG
Works at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The primary use case of this product is for infrastructure monitoring, and involving machine learning with IT-related scenarios.

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MP
Splunk Consultant at Yssy

We are a solution provider with many technologies. We use Splunk to customize solutions with Splunk. For example, we try to give our customers a great visualization experience. And sometimes we develop on the Splunk platform, like JavaScript, to provide the customers a better visualization. We also implement ITSI. In-house we can implement Enterprise Security.

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Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)
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