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Pros

Effective SIEM Solution: Users have found Splunk Cloud to be a simple and effective solution for consolidating multiple data points and managing alert workflows. Several reviewers have mentioned that it has helped them streamline their security operations and improve incident response.

User-Friendly Interface: The user-friendly interface of Splunk Cloud has been praised by many users, with some describing it as intuitive and easy to navigate. This allows users to easily create custom dashboards for everyday monitoring of multiple parameters without the need for extensive training or technical expertise.

Powerful Search Capabilities: Many reviewers have highlighted Splunk Cloud's powerful query language and fast search indexing capabilities. This enables quick and accurate searching through large volumes of information, such as Windows Server Logs, making it easier for users to find the insights they need in a timely manner.

Splunk Cloud Platform Reviews

4 Reviews
Engineering

Security Excellence and IT Ops Insights at your fingertips in a single place

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Splunk Cloud to aggregate logs from various Cloud and on-premise applications and services into a single place for Security and IT Operations monitoring. This allows us to focus on a single platform and remove duplication of costs, training, data onboarding etc. We have alerts that are sent directly to operations teams and dashboards available for wallboards and aggregate data.

Pros

  • Easy to get data in
  • Rich user experience
  • Wide range of Splunk & Community add-ons

Cons

  • Unable to download configuration changes easily

Likelihood to Recommend

Splunk Cloud is suitable for a range of scenarios and is outstanding in Security monitoring use-cases. Having the data in Splunk Cloud easily opens up the possibility to implement IT Ops monitoring using the same data, however Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring might be a better IT Ops tool if the data is not already in Splunk Cloud.
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Verified User
Consultant in Engineering (Internet company, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk Cloud Platform
4 years of experience

Good app monitoring data platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Splunk Cloud is being used by our own department. We use it mainly to aggregate logs and metrics. We also create different dashboards to display our service running status.

Since we have multiple environments, it's very convenient to stream all logs/metrics into Splunk Cloud, and see them from one centralized place.

Pros

  • Display log events in a very nice way for humans to read
  • Very easy and powerful to create dashboards
  • Very fast and reliable

Cons

  • Since it's a managed cloud service, it doesn't offer the capability to edit the config files directly. So if the web UI doesn't support something, we can't change it.

Likelihood to Recommend

Splunk Cloud is good for application monitoring/alerting, data analysis and root cause analysis. For organizations that would like use Splunk but do not want to hire someone to operate or maintain it, this is the best solution.

From a cost perspective, it's not the cheapest one in the market.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Engineering (Consumer Electronics company, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk Cloud Platform
2 years of experience

Data is the new Oil!!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Splunk Cloud is being used by our department. It solved many business problem as it delivers Splunk-as-a-Service hosted securely on the public cloud. With this cloud-ready service, one can enjoy all of Splunk Enterprise features without worrying about hosting the infrastructure and without paying the upfront Splunk licensing cost. Splunk Cloud supports all Splunkbase apps including Premium applications (e.g. Enterprise Security, ITSI, etc.) with pre-packaged searches, dashboards, and reports to create the right story from the data with the power of self-serviceability.

Pros

  • With Splunk Cloud you get the advantage of moving from POC to Production in a matter of days rather than in months allowing the Business to gain a lot.
  • Takes you away from managing infrastructure/administration, allows saving time & money. Reduce the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
  • Move from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring
  • Highly secure environment at your finger-tips

Cons

  • Splunk Cloud support is increasing a lot now a days and I see no cons other than the price factor to the other compared products. Overall Splunk Cloud is a very good product all together.
  • I can see that Splunk Cloud can still improve in the form of SLA.
  • Splunk Cloud generally lags behind the available splunk upgrades. They are always one version behind the one available for enterprise.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for many business use cases where security, performance, and support are the top-most priority, along with the normal use case of Splunk. One would get very good support if the company is using Splunk Cloud and can solve many business problems like seamlessly allowing end users to store, search, analyze and visualize data from different sources of one’s business or IT infrastructure. Splunk Cloud follows the state-of-the-art cloud ready deployment strategies in line with continuous integration/deployment pipeline which is designed for high availability, efficient change management, and robust architecture.

One shouldn't use Splunk Cloud for learning or testing purpose. Such things can be done or fulfilled by Splunk Enterprise as well and would be way cheaper then Splunk Cloud.
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Manan Bhatt
Sr. SRE in Engineering at Crest Data Systems (Computer & Network Security, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk Cloud Platform
3 years of experience
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Heavy Hitter SIEM!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Splunk to centralize and consume all of our server logs, and various other logs, to monitor for interruptions in service, anomalous activity, and other security-related events. Splunk is primarily used by our DevOps and Security teams. Splunk solved an issue of being able to easily and effectively search hundreds of thousands of log entries in an easy to consume format.

Pros

  • Splunk is extremely versatile and can consume just about any kind of log out there.
  • Splunk's search function is very powerful, and allows for some very complex search criteria. Narrowing and/or expanding search results is as simple as a click of the mouse.
  • There are many different apps/plugins that can be added to Splunk that provide built-in reporting and alerting on certain kinds of events, meaning you don't have to be an expert to use Splunk.

Cons

  • There is a bit of a learning curve to figure out how to initially use it.
  • When SAML is set up, there is no apparent way to log out.

Likelihood to Recommend

Splunk is not cheap, so Splunk only makes sense for businesses where there are hundreds of thousands of logs a minute, or where manual processes or open source alternatives can't keep up. You will need to have a dedicated person or two in order to configure and manage Splunk on a very regular business, otherwise, you won't be able to reap the full benefits that Splunk can offer.
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Chase Palmer, CISSP
Security Engineer II in Engineering at Lucid (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk Cloud Platform
1 year of experience
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