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# Splunk Enterprise User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4.6/5
- Total reviews: 267

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.1/5
- Customer support: 4.3/5
- Value for money: 4.2/5
- Functionality: 4.5/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 173 reviews (65%)
- 4 stars: 82 reviews (31%)
- 3 stars: 12 reviews (4%)
- 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%)
- 1 star: 0 reviews (0%)

### Most mentioned pros

- I’ve been using Splunk Enterprise for a couple of years, and the real-time alerting feature is a game-changer. Whenever a log shows a spike in failed login attempts, the alert pops up in my dashboard and automatically triggers a Slack notification.
- I've had a generally positive experience with Splunk Enterprise, using it regularly to monitor and analyze log data. While it can be complex at times, the platform's powerful search and reporting capabilities make it a valuable tool for identifying trends and issues in our IT infrastructure.
- It turns complex machine data into clear insights, with customizable dashboards and strong alerting that keeps teams proactive.

### Most mentioned cons

- Specifically, my pet peeve is that once you filter down to a specific context within search, it’s virtually impossible to expand it again — there is no obvious “return to everything” button and I have accidentally clicked away and lost my entire query more than once.
- Documentation on setting up alert thresholds is a bit thin, so I had to dig through forums to get the exact syntax. And the UI feels cluttered when you open too many dashboards at once, which can slow things down.
- There’s a lot going on in the user interface — there are far too many options presented at the same level with no obvious hierarchy so new employees frequently get lost, and sometimes long-time employees get lost as well.

## Splunk Enterprise customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 267 (page 1).

### Best SIEM in the market

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Subham P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

My overall experience has been awsome so far. I would rate it 8.5/10.Splunk has been as effective soluntion when it comes to triaging and monitoring of day to alerts.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

- Easy to triage and monitor alert (Very fast and gives effective results as compared to other produts)Arcsight,Devo etc- Customer Support is excellent- Threat Hunting can be done effectively with the help of Splunk(IOC based,Corellation based etc)- Log parising is very effective & intelligent.

#### Cons

- The only think i liked least about splunk is the cost involved/pricing model in case of high data volumes.

#### Reasons for switching to Splunk Enterprise

- Easy to use.- Alert corellation and mornitoring is more effective.- Log paring is very accurate and quick.

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### Big data is no problem for Splunk Enterprise

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Shayla B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Splunk is a powerful and useful monitoring tool. Splunk's efficiency is enhanced by the ability to integrate third-party apps developed in-house. It's also interesting that we can incorporate a customs alert and dashboard. In most situations, it resolves the need to normalize data, allowing for the use of any and all data in business forecasting. It is analyzed for data that can be utilized to optimize spending plans and asset tracking.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Without worrying too much about data type or normalization, Splunk Enterprise can efficiently manage massive amounts of data from numerous sources. Data may be accessed in a flash, and there are a number of options for tailoring and integrating data analysis workflows to create bespoke dashboards or utilizing apps from our other product partners.

#### Cons

There isn't much I dislike about splunk, however if we have to be picky, it would be that it's more difficult to maintain as an administrator when splunk is installed on outdated architecture.

#### Reasons for switching to Splunk Enterprise

It quickly transforms large datasets into visual representations that let top-level management assess how well they are doing toward strategic objectives.

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### splunk review

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: ville p.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for free trial
- Reviewed: January 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

The "Schema-on-Read" Flexibility, Search Processing Language (SPL), Real-Time Dashboards & Visualizations, Massive Scalability

#### Cons

High and Unpredictable Costs, Steep Learning Curve, High Administrative Overhead, Performance Degradation at Scale

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### Splunk Enterprise, not just a SIEM

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

We have been using Splunk Enterprise, ES, ITSI, and other Splunk parts for 6+ years in production. This has helped us reduce staff in some cases, increase response time in most cases, and allow non-IT teams to get data and metrics in a fast efficient way.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The versatility is amazing. The same data in logs, such as IIS, can be used for Security, Application performance, and even error handling. This allows us to use one log to help multiple teams. This is just one example.

#### Cons

Start up takes someone who has had some training. While searching and output is easy, its the onboarding of custom apps that takes the know how.

#### Reasons for choosing Splunk Enterprise

Versatility with custom applications we create in house.

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### Great Choice for an SIEM

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Provides a single location for collecting and analyzing logs. Provides ease of use for non-technical users, but powerful features for security and IT. There is an add-on/app for anything you could imagine.

#### Cons

Some documentation is vague, and when certain things don't work, it can be difficult to find out a solution to the problem.

#### Reasons for choosing Splunk Enterprise

We needed a product that we could host ourselves.

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### A better business companion when integrated with RPA

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Muhamed F.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: December 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall, the experience was positive; even with a free trial license, it was much easier, and on the course and certification side, Splunk has a very good collection of videos and materials that help even a novice quickly setup the integration and indexing.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The most useful thing about Splunk is the ease of integration with application. With uipath on-premises it was very much helpful as the business users can monitor the actions of robots through spluink without entering into uipath orchestrator

#### Cons

Expression creation for indexing was bit hard as it is not user-friendly to business users if they wanted to create any new fields, also the forwarder was not able to directly connect with uipath cloud so that the logs has to be shifted to intermediate file before uploading into splunk, but that seems not an issue with splunk but more related to uipath cloud

#### Reasons for choosing Splunk Enterprise

Splunk was much cheaper than power bi and only little effort needed for implantation and the resources cost is also higher for power bi

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### Robust, Scalable Analytics for Modern Enterprises

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Christine C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Arts and Crafts
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2026
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

What I liked most about Splunk Enterprise is its powerful real-time search and analytics. It turns complex machine data into clear insights, with customizable dashboards and strong alerting that keeps teams proactive.

#### Cons

What I dislike about Splunk Enterprise is the steep learning curve, especially for new users working with SPL, and performance tuning can require dedicated expertise.

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### 3 Years Splunk admin and giving a 5 star for the Splunk Enterprise!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Philip Y.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I have Splunk forwarder installed over 100 servers to have logs sending over to Splunk Enterprise server, and the data ingest is very reliable. data query is also very fast and Dashboard is easy to build, alerts sending from Splunk SMTP server is reliable.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Easy setup and the search speed is fast, very reliable to ingest data. Dashboard is powerful, but building a fancy dashboard takes time, the Splunk community is a good resource.

#### Cons

Price is a little bit high. The community feather is good though, I can find useful info from it. I wish the support can be easier.

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### Splunk enterprise gave us answers to our log management.

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Rahul V.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Splunk improved our Siem solution and we where able to become compliant due to such a strong audit trail. It became a foundational element of our cybersecurity architecture.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

We are utilizing splunk for real-time log analysis and threat detection. We were able to use the correlation search and visualization services to figure out suspicious activity across systems before it got out of hand.

#### Cons

It’s heavy for resources and not for beginners will required staff that are trained for setting up and optimizing it.

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### Splunk Review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Katrina P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I use it for searching for log files and capturing real time data. I like that it creates alerts, dashboards, graphs, reports, and visualizations.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It provides an easy to use platform for application and log management. I have found it very easy to setup and use.

#### Cons

I do not dislike anything about this software. I enjoy using the interface and I have had a good experience with the support team.

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### Best Siem solution in market.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: kartik S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall experience is amazing, we are happy with this software as it can ingest any form of data and generate alerts quite swiftly.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 2/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Easy to install agents on servers, it can parse any form of data easily, Splunk can detect anomalies quite easily and the UBEA feature is amazing.

#### Cons

The cost of this solution is high, and customer service is bad. Apart from that Splunk SPL language is difficult to learn.

#### Reasons for choosing Splunk Enterprise

Cause its to implement as compared to other siems.

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### Great tool

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Tamer B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

The experience was so good, I use it and send reports from Splunk. Splunk bots helped us to automate the patching process

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Building tools and reporting is the best, easy to pull logs, and able to create dashboards.

#### Cons

It is a bit pricey, that's why we don't use it as a primary logs software, and at the beginning, it is overwhelming

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### Splunk-review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Murail G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Excellent product, easy to integrate and use together with other products.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The way it can be integrated to collate all required information at one place

#### Cons

I have not see any least things so far in the usecases

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### Best friend for debugging

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2022
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### 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.

#### Reasons for switching to Splunk Enterprise

Splunk enterprise offers better support and has lot of advanced features.

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### Efficiently manage and analyze data with Splunk Enterprise

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Splunk Enterprise's versatility is highly valued by its users, as it is capable of analyzing and managing data from a variety of sources, including machine data, logs, and structured and unstructured data formats. This makes it a valuable tool for organizations with diverse data management needs. In addition, users appreciate the software's efficiency in processing and analyzing large volumes of data quickly, allowing them to make faster and more informed decisions. This is particularly important for organizations that need to respond to data in real-time, as Splunk Enterprise's speed and efficiency can help them stay ahead of the curve.

#### Cons

Splunk Enterprise to be complex and difficult to use, particularly for those who are not familiar with data analysis and management tools. The software has a range of features and capabilities, which can be overwhelming.

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### Splunk is a great SIEM solution for anyone to use

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Stephan v.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Vey happy to user the product, it fits our client's need perfectly

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The easy of setup and integration makes this one of my favorites As well as the real time dashboard

#### Cons

Not much i don't like yet, but maybe the interface can do with an update

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### Get useful insights into your logs with Splunk Enterprise.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

We majorly use Splunk enterprise for IT security and log analysis. It is a powerful log analytics solution. We use it to collect data from several sources, analyze and transform it into meaningful metrics.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Its been a while since I started using Splunk Enterprise. I love its ability to cumulate data and logs from multiple sources and correlate them to help find incidents and their root cause. It consolidates logs and manages them form a central place. It is a great tool for log analysis as it segregates data and provides in depth profiling. Splunk enterprise also automates alerts and indexes on logs received.

#### Cons

It has a complex architecture making the learning curve quite steep

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### Splunk Enterprise is my go-to for analyzing large volumes of data quickly and effectively.

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Francisco S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

The software is user-friendly and has powerful data visualization tools.

#### Cons

I wish the pricing was more affordable for small businesses like mine, and some features can be overwhelming for beginners.

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### Great platform for data analysis and visualization

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Splunk Enterprise is a great data analysis and visualization platform to show real time status with live dashboards.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Security Information and Event management, log analytics, custom dashboards and workspaces

#### Cons

Auto upgrade management and notifications for Add-ons. Leaning more towards config file based implementation instead of UI based implementation

#### Reasons for choosing Splunk Enterprise

Product Features and pricing

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### nice tool with functionality for everyone

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

very good tool to see your logging and get alerts when something is wrong.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Splunk is easy to use, also non technical persons can also use and create their dashboards. Easy to implement and very easy to use the query language, the documentation is also sufficient

#### Cons

We cannot setup the alerts for realtime. we only us it for logging and not for metrics. the maintenance of the dashboards are very time offering.

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### Robust Solution for Enhancing Security and Resilience

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Cedeno A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2022
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Monitor endpoints to detect and remediate cyber threats in real-time.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Block security threats on endpoints. It enhances applications development.

#### Cons

The price is high but the results are remarkable.

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### Monitoring Tool Splunk

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Parth P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2021
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

With Splunk anything identified with the application backend logs and observing, it's extremely suitable to utilize, in light of which we can make different dashboards. For server Monitoring, Splunk logs are not exceptionally accommodating. It totally depends on log explanations, assuming articulation isn't organized in standard organization, and it gives mistaken outcomes.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Splunk Light is ideal for independent on-premise organization. Augment endpoint logging. Can find and store logs from a wide range of resources. Customization of dashboards. Making applications dependent on your requirements.

#### Cons

Complex generally design. Long execution time. The instrument needs to incorporate AI to comprehend the framework logs and alarming ought to be founded on the auto learning.

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### Great, wholistic centralized monitoring solution

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I've been using Splunk for over 8 years. I've seen it constantly improve and change a lot. I do enjoy it. Cloud is getting better and much better parity with on-prem

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

We use this as our SIEM. The ability to have the data ingest, visualization, alerting and correlation all in one product is very important to me from a security standpoint. We're cloud-first so having that ability with large cloud providers is important to me (AWS, Okta, GCP, etc)

#### Cons

The cost can be a little concerning and htere is a bit of a learning curve when you first get into Splunk. User groups, their forum and pro serv all help with that.

#### Reasons for choosing Splunk Enterprise

Better product.

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### Splunk is a critical tool for monitoring and alerting

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Vince C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2021
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Splunk is a great product for enterprise monitoring and alerting.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

They have a robust platform that I have used for monitoring and analytics. There are a lot of options and customization available when using it.

#### Cons

Because there is so much customization and options available, it can be complicated to learn.

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### Query your log statements for your production apps in REAL TIME to triage and monitor performance

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: devaun f.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

XRAY vision on your production instances. Every day we code our applications so that we will be splunk friendly with our app log statements. For example "featureX=value" allows you to query for every customer that engaged with featureX.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Splunk allows us to see exactly what is going on in production! I work on commerce for a fortune 100 company, and we use Splunk to monitor our apps in real time. Splunk gives you the ability to perform queries like you would with SQL against your log statements in real time. You will learn that you can place strategic log statements in your code that allows you to identify situations in production and be proactive at solving them. For example, you can log your customer's session cookie ID, and track any given customer's activity on your website via your app logs. It gives you dials and charting capabilities to monitor even the slightest drops in customer activities due to flaws in code or slowing network calls.

#### Cons

PRICE. The software is so powerful, and they seem to leverage this in the pricing of the licenses.

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