Splunk is a great product
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is a great product. We have a enterprise license and have been using it from 4 years. Splunk has a great and easy to use user interface. We were able to build many dashboards which give lot of useful information. No need to login to various backend nodes to retrieve logs which are not in a readable format.Using splunk we can access any logging info regardless of which machine that data is stored in. We were able to identify many bugs and issues in our code before our clients saw it and many times before the code is delivered to clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not have any major complaints about splunk.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were able to identify many bugs and issues in our code before our clients saw it and many times before the code is delivered to clients. Also now we have one centralized place to see the logs regardless of environments.
Splunk and Devops
What do you like best about the product?
I like splunk because it provides a searchable and well indexed storage of application logs, which is what we primarily use to debug production issues. Apart from this, there are several features I love: creating real time alerts in the case of erroneous behaviour, creating dashboards to monitor the release of a new feature, extracting csvs from a set of relevant log events. All this and more is much of what keeps our business running
What do you dislike about the product?
I think that the error messages on unsuccessful jobs are too detailed for a user. If a job times out, it gives you a message which is a little difficult to understand
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Splunk helps us with real time alerting, application monitoring, feature monitoring.
It saves a lot of time in helping us find the root cause of production issues.
The huge range of splunk operators helps us create meaningful visuals to communicate with the business.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do go through the rich set of commands which will help you create wonderful insights into your application log data.
Vital for Mobile Apps
What do you like best about the product?
Splunk is a great tool to monitor apps performance. It has really accurate information, simple and clear dashboards and it is pretty easy to use. Furthermore, it has a really good dashboard for errors with an spectacular stacktrace tool that allows you to symbolicate code.
What do you dislike about the product?
In Mint Splunk you can not customise the metrics. For example, if you are checking popular OS for an App you can only retrieve five results. The same happens with popular App versions or most used devices.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Splunk is perfect for us to check out mobile app performances. It really helps us to find out errors, crashes and bugs. It also help us to retrieve important metrics about sessions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a great tool that can be combined with NewRelic, Datadog or metrics retrieved by Google/Apple stores.
Excellent for trying out Splunk
I wanted to try out a few add-ons to Splunk and this worked perfectly for me. Having an AMI with a ready to go Splunk server and MongoDB combined with a recommended security group made it very easy to start using immediately. I was also able to install the Splunk Mobile Access Server on this instance and connected using the associated iOS and Android apps. If I had any recommendation for Splunk it would be to include the MAS on this AMI as well.
No complaints at all.
More time splunking. Less time installing.
Up and running with Splunk in minutes. This was so easy it was not even funny. It look me longer to set up data feeds than it did preparing Splunk to receive them.
Totally thrilled and pleased. This was a life saver.
Splunk's home for indexes is on the root partition by default. 8GB of SSD storage for the / partition will probably not be enough for you.
Add a 500GB or 1TB magnetic volume and move splunk's index home there before you get started.
One-click Splunk!
From no Splunk to Splunk in minutes. I was able to start collecting and analysing my data within the hour.
