What is Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform, the Splunk platform capabilities delivered as a service, enables you to make confident decisions and take decisive action on insights from your data without needing to purchase, manage or deploy infrastructure. Splunk Cloud Platform transforms user productivity with streaming, search, analytics, visualization and mobile capabilities, changing the ways users work and interact with data to solve cloudscale problems.
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82 Likeliness to Recommend
85 Plan to Renew
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70 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+88 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Splunk Cloud Platform?
Pros
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
- Continually Improving Product
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Analytics and Data Science Tools
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Real Time Capabilities
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Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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Splunk Cloud Platform Reviews
Jaspreet S.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2024
Splunk: A comprehensive observability solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Splunk Cloud Platform from other similar products?
1) Splunk provides real-time data processing and monitoring, offering immediate insights from data as it is ingested. 2) Splunk provides robust analytics capabilities including customizable dashboards for in-depth data visualization and analysis. with the help of advanced machine learning tools. 3) Splunk supports threat detection, compliance, and security incident management through the collection and analysis of security events.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
1) Splunk's unique Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) feature helps reduce false positives by triggering alerts only when risk surpasses predefined thresholds. This helps in prioritizing incidents effectively. 2) Splunk's versatility for integrating diverse data sets from various systems and applications.
What do you dislike most about this product?
1) Running Splunk requires significant computing resources as sometimes when you run complex queries or large datasets, you might run into performance bottlenecks. 2) Splunk's inability to send clear event notifications. Currently, Splunk can only send notification to event management tools when triggering condition is met, but when it goes back to normal, Splunk doesn’t have a capability to auto clear an alert.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Splunk is a powerful observability tool to be employed in every organization which not only gives data insights i.e., searching and analyzing the data at scale but also go beyond to help detecting the threats. Its risk-based alerting helps proactively prioritizing the issues so we can act decisively and reduce Mean-Time-To-Detect and Mean-Time-To-Respond.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Ravish K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2024
Very easy to get started with yet very powerful.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Splunk Cloud Platform from other similar products?
Splunk Cloud Platform distinguishes itself by offering a unified platform for security and observability, providing advanced analytics and AI/ML capabilities, ensuring robust security features, scaling effortlessly in the cloud, and simplifying deployment and management. Its comprehensive approach empowers organizations with deep data insights, proactive threat detection, and streamlined operations, all within a user-friendly environment backed by a rich ecosystem of integrations.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Splunk Cloud Platform is its unwavering stability, allowing me to confidently monitor my mission-critical applications without worrying about downtime or data loss.
What do you dislike most about this product?
My least favorite aspect of Splunk Cloud Platform is the initial sticker shock that can accompany its robust feature set, sometimes making it a challenging budgetary conversation for smaller organizations or those with limited resources.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
When considering Splunk Cloud Platform, define your needs clearly, test its capabilities through a POC, utilize available resources, plan for training, consider a phased implementation, evaluate the total cost of ownership, and consider partnering with experts for guidance, ensuring a successful deployment and maximized value from your investment.
Pros
- Effective Service
- Respectful
- Fair
- Acts with Integrity
Cons
- Commodity Features
- Charges for Enhancements
- Leverages Incumbent Status
Premankur B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2024
Good Product, But offered late in the market.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Splunk Cloud Platform from other similar products?
Unified Data Platform Scalability and Flexibility Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning Search and Visualization Security and Compliance Integration and Extensibility Operational Intelligence User Experience and Community Managed Service
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
search and analytics capabilities
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost is one thing which company should consider in this competitive market
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Calculate the Pricing before start using this product
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product