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, Germany , France, United Kingdom, India, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, United States and 9 others
Supported Languages
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian , Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, traditional Chinese 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: 142
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
The best tool for log collection and analysis.
Reviewed on 9/11/2022
Splunk enterprise has improved our IT security through collection of logs. It centralizes large...
Splunk enterprise has improved our IT security through collection of logs. It centralizes large amounts of log data and efficiently manages it. We use it for analyzing the collected logs and report on metrics found from the logs.
Pros
Through its robust log analysis and ability to collect data from different sources, we can easily perform analysis on various data and predict any future operational hazards. Splunk enterprise efficiently monitors our log activities and and gives results to any queries at faster speed than most SIEM tools.
Cons
The searches can be complex at times and the messages on query errors aren't always specific.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
The most expensive tool, requiring highly-skilled employees, capable of limitless value
Reviewed on 9/19/2022
Splunk's SPL is a flexible, straight forward query-language with aspects of SQL, R, Python, and...
Splunk's SPL is a flexible, straight forward query-language with aspects of SQL, R, Python, and Bash. The fact that an analyst can learn to be an engineer through using the platform provides ease of growth. It is unmatched in its automation to make data actionable, while providing reporting and visualization capabilities.
Pros
Splunk is provides a single tool for log aggregation, log analysis, and visualizations. Threat hunting, applying threat intelligence, and incident response are easily repeatable; pushing organizations to proactive security processes.
Cons
Splunk is expensive, especially when an organizations is exploring and building new security or data use cases. It also requires a lot of engineering maintenance, making the quality of the data highly-dependent on the skill(s) of those supporting it. Many organizations do not maximize its benefit because it is poorly managed or supported by low-skilled employees.
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Elastic StackReasons for Switching to Splunk Enterprise
Splunk scales in all aspects except price. Organizations that are serious about security and SIEM tools will see the value in their investment almost immediately. The insights from the analytics and development capabilities are not available in other tools with this level of ease.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Currently using this diagnostic tool for log analysis
Reviewed on 3/14/2018
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.
- Industry: Financial Services Software
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best SIEM
Reviewed on 11/15/2022
Great SIEM that beats the competition, we utilized it for various functions
Great SIEM that beats the competition, we utilized it for various functions
Pros
Splunk appsStrength and capabilitiesIntegration with most solutions
Cons
Resource utilizationLimited local partner support
Reasons for Switching to Splunk Enterprise
Overall functionalities- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Complete Security operations with Splunk
Reviewed on 10/3/2021
Splunk data visualization and its analytics handling chunks of data is exceptional.
Splunk data visualization and its analytics handling chunks of data is exceptional.
Pros
Data visualization, Analytics skills with AI-powered and can handle data in TB/per day without any interruptions in services. Live dashboards, developing use-cases and their capabilities (correlation).
Cons
complex architecture and efficient skills are required, financial is also not feasible for small and medium customers. no inbuilt query builders for beginners to understand the platform.
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AlienVault OSSIMReasons for Choosing Splunk Enterprise
Its niche player was can handle only a few products data and not so feasible in terms of query building and customization in dashboards. Good for small businesses not for enterpraises.Switched From
AlienVault OSSIMReasons for Switching to Splunk Enterprise
Not so feasible in handling data and its simple architecture cannot handle logs from all the data sources.Splunk Enterprise FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Splunk Enterprise.Q. What type of pricing plans does Splunk Enterprise offer?
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.
Q. Who are the typical users of Splunk Enterprise?
Splunk Enterprise has the following typical customers:
51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does Splunk Enterprise support?
Splunk Enterprise supports the following languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, traditional Chinese
Q. Does Splunk Enterprise support mobile devices?
Splunk Enterprise supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Splunk Enterprise integrate with?
Splunk Enterprise integrates with the following applications:
Amazon S3, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Excel, Okta, OneLogin, PingFederate, Tableau
Q. What level of support does Splunk Enterprise offer?
Splunk Enterprise offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, Chat
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