About Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Enterprise is a cloud-based platform designed to assist businesses with big data management and analysis of machine data. Key features include data visualization, performance metrics, data collection, real-time search, indexing, KPI tracking, reporting, and monitoring.

The application lets managers create custom dashboards, add visualizations, adjust interface components, and convert it to forms. Splunk Enterprise helps administrators conduct continuous monitoring of operational events to detect vulnerabilities and receive event-triggered alerts in real-time. With its workload management feature, users can reserve storage capacity of system resources for data import/ingestion of high-priority tasks. Splunk Enterprise also enables team members to detect system anomalies and perform data clustering to filter out corrupted data.

Splunk Enterprise offers integration with various third-party platforms including Microsoft Excel, Tableau, Okta, PingFerderate, Azure AD, CA SiteMinder, OneLogin, and Optimal IdM. The solution is suitable for businesses in industries such as aerospace, communications, healthcare, manufacturing, finance, energy, and utilities.

Pricing starting from:

US$1,800.00/year

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Markets

Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France and 9 others

Supported Languages

Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and 6 others

Pricing starting from:

US$1,800.00/year

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Features

Total features of Splunk Enterprise: 147

  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Monitoring
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Analysis
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Anomaly/Malware Detection
  • Anti Spam
  • Anti Virus
  • Application Management
  • Application Security
  • Archiving & Retention
  • Audit Trail
  • Baseline Manager
  • Behavioural Analytics
  • Billing & Provisioning
  • CPU Monitoring
  • Capacity Analytics
  • Capacity Management
  • Change Management
  • Charting
  • Cloud Application Security
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Configuration Management
  • Connectivity Management
  • Content Management
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
  • Cost Management
  • Credential Management
  • Customisable Dashboard
  • Customisable Reports
  • Dashboard
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Data Aggregation
  • Data Analysis Tools
  • Data Discovery
  • Data Management
  • Data Mining
  • Data Security
  • Data Visualisation
  • Deep Learning
  • Demand Monitoring
  • Diagnostic Tools
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Email Alerts
  • Email Monitoring
  • Encryption
  • Endpoint Management
  • Event Analysis
  • Event Logs
  • Event Tracking
  • Event Triggered Actions
  • File Integrity Monitoring
  • Firewalls
  • For Healthcare
  • Full Transaction Diagnostics
  • High Volume Processing
  • IP Address Monitoring
  • IT Asset Management
  • IT Incident Management
  • IT Monitoring
  • Incident Management
  • Incident Reporting
  • Internet Usage Monitoring
  • Intrusion Detection System
  • Inventory Management
  • Investigation Management
  • Issue Auditing
  • KPI Monitoring
  • Knowledge Management
  • License Management
  • Log Analysis
  • Log Collection
  • Log Management
  • ML Algorithm Library
  • Machine Learning
  • Maintenance Scheduling
  • Mobile Network Troubleshooting
  • Model Training
  • Modeling & Simulation
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Cloud Management
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Network Analysis
  • Network Monitoring
  • Network Resource Management
  • OLAP
  • OSHA Compliance
  • Patch Management
  • Performance Analysis
  • Performance Metrics
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Policy Management
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Real Time Analytics
  • Real Time Data
  • Real Time Monitoring
  • Real Time Notifications
  • Real Time Reporting
  • Real-time Updates
  • Relational Display
  • Remediation Management
  • Remote Access/Control
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Resource Management
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Reporting
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Safety Incident Management
  • Scheduling
  • Search/Filter
  • Self Service Data Preparation
  • Self Service Portal
  • Server Logs
  • Server Monitoring
  • Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
  • Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  • Statistical Modeling
  • Supply Monitoring
  • Task Management
  • Templates
  • Third Party Integrations
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threshold Alerts
  • Ticket Management
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Uptime Reporting
  • VPN Software
  • Virtual Machine Monitoring
  • Visual Analytics
  • Visual Discovery
  • Visualisation
  • Vulnerability Protection
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web Traffic Reporting
  • Workflow Approval

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Reviews

Overall rating

4.6 /5
(188)
Value for Money
4.3/5
Features
4.5/5
Ease of Use
4.1/5
Customer Support
4.3/5

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David
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  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Offers more than you think

Reviewed on 7/2/2018

We've used the software to detect layer 7 attacks, unearth issues we didn't realize were happening...

We've used the software to detect layer 7 attacks, unearth issues we didn't realize were happening and gives us end to end insight into our stack.

Pros

The system is highly intuitive to use. It is faster than other solutions I've used on the market and has a huge library of 3rd party plugins to get more from the system. It is easy to create scheduled searches, dashboards, reports etc. but there are a number of additional plugins (at an extra cost) to help with security, single pane of glass and metric collection.

Cons

It offers challenges for a decentralized working model. Where Splunk is centrally managed, it is easy to ensure that best practices are maintained. Where the system is opened up for an entire department to utilize and on-board their logs, it becomes more difficult. However, with some creative thinking and good process, this issue can be overcome.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best friend for debugging

Reviewed on 13/10/2022

Splunk basically makes debugging and monitoring easier and touch less. I can easily debug by...

Splunk basically makes debugging and monitoring easier and touch less. I can easily debug by starring the rolling logs from different instances in single screen.
I can monitor multiple components and multiple metrics, without running commands manually with custom plugins.

Pros

Splunk comes with lot of in-built templates for each and every feature like log visualisation, dashboarding, traces,etc This makes the developers life lot easier. I can't think of any other logging tool that is snappy as well as accurate.
I love the fact how easily I can plug it in my docker-compose to push container logs.

Cons

Even though, it offers numerous features for different needs, each feature has its own learning curve. For instance log visualisation needs querying skills, which may be in natural language but it takes bit of time to get familiar.

Nav
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Currently using this diagnostic tool for log analysis

Reviewed on 14/3/2018

Overall a decent product.

Overall a decent product.

Pros

- Ability to search logs across processes and services
- Ability to develop dashboards to Monitor critical metrics
- Ability to set up alerts based on threshold values

Cons

- Need to regex well in order to use the tool to its full ability
- Ability to extract values out of the log statements could be simpler
- Alerts usually end up being over alerting or false alerts.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Splunk is a lifesaver!

Reviewed on 7/1/2023

It’s been wonderful. I was able to take most of my forwarded lambdas and charts them to watch...

It’s been wonderful. I was able to take most of my forwarded lambdas and charts them to watch duration and throughput. Notifications and alerts let me know if things are out of whack. Such a relief to know Splunk is watching my back!

Pros

If you need real-time grokking into your infrastructure, look no further than Splunk. I love love love the dashboards. It’s easy to tell a story with your data, and the live search is so FAST!

Cons

SPL is a little hard to get used to, but once you get the hang of it, it’s not so bad. I recommend downloading their community edition for some great examples of queries and dashboards.

Divyang
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Manipulate You Data

Reviewed on 28/9/2020

Splunk is widely used for manipulation of data and we encounter the use of this tool almostl twice...

Splunk is widely used for manipulation of data and we encounter the use of this tool almostl twice a week. Even though it costs much more but still we have not found any alternative that is able to offer all these functionalities.

Pros

Splunk is very easy to use due to high community support and many video tutorials available online for new users to learn.
Functionalities are robust and simple to use. Data retrieval and visualisation is nice and easy if you know the right querying process.
Machine Learning supports enhances performance for the cloud, especially. It collect wide variety of data and still it amaze you the way it retrievs it.

Cons

There are many tools available in market which are potential competitors of this tool and that too at reasonable pricing. Splunk offers more functionalities but costs you too much if you look at the work it does.
Complex queries may require large CPU usage and may even freeze or atleast slow down the system for a while. Need to be specific while querying the data.

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Splunk Enterprise FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Splunk Enterprise.

Splunk Enterprise offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$1,800.00/year
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Contact Splunk for detailed pricing information.

Splunk Enterprise has the following typical customers:

51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Splunk Enterprise supports the following languages:

Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

Splunk Enterprise supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile)

Splunk Enterprise integrates with the following applications:

Amazon S3, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Excel, Okta, OneLogin, PingFederate, Tableau

Splunk Enterprise offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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