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Splunk IT Essentials Work Reviews & Product Details

Splunk IT Essentials is the industry’s leading alert triage and investigative solution, helping IT teams easily get started with simplifying IT management. By consolidating tools, reducing cost and correlating all IT data into a single view, Splunk offers a better understanding of performance and health of the entire environment. This is the foundation for any IT team’s modernization journey.

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Cisco

Product Description

The quick-to-deploy solution for server, cloud, and OS monitoring without limits. One product for monitoring and troubleshooting. No muss, no fuss.

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Splunk IT Essentials Work Reviews (13)

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Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/28/2019

"System Engineer "

4/5

What do you like best about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

The insight it provides about the infrastructure and the ability to install apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

Somewhat slow since it needs a lot of processing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kimberly A.

student

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/4/2020

"Infrastructure"

5/5

What do you like best about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

Used with visual designs for architectural project. Adequate implementation of log data. Easy to access data for log entries that monitor Linux servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

Strange navigation tools. Feels very loose in terms of html script used to create it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Splunk IT Essentials Work:

Very insightful in terms of project improvements. Can easily archive log entries for Linux servers. Easy to navigate and use with implemented software. It can monitor about 50 servers if desired. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Splunk IT Essentials Work solving and how is that benefiting you?

Architectural projects. Comments made on design using the application aided in project improvement. Primarily used to access and archive log entries in Linux servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/14/2019

"Monitoring for critical infrastructure"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

Splunk is THE tool we use on devops in order to monitor and get alerts for our digital infrastructure, from our servers to our microservices to our partners. We live on Splunk because it provides alerts, specific detailed notifications about problems, and is a great way to search for the variety of logs that the software provides. I think the interface is rather intuitive and clear to understand as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

The problem with Splunk is probably with the searching functionality. While it seems to be pretty fast, sometimes it's hard to syntactically pull the data I want when I am doing analysis on a failed program, job, or other systems failure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Splunk IT Essentials Work:

Splunk is a fantastic piece of software when you must manage a variety of systems across different environments. It's a great idea to get this installed in all the environments so you know EXACTLY what's going on, every minute of the day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Splunk IT Essentials Work solving and how is that benefiting you?

Splunk is allowing our devops team to sleep better at night and not worry as much during the day when we are managing a variety of servers and systems that we must keep online all the time. We've been able to get mission critical notifications ahead of time so we can remedy problems before they become big in magnitude. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/4/2019

"Great devops monitoring platform"

4/5

What do you like best about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

Splunk Insights is a great tool to let our devops teams monitor infrastructure. I get email alerts everytime some problem or situation crosses a certain threshold. It's transparent, relatively easy to use, and has a great monitoring interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

Not much to dislike about Splunk. I am a user of the product and it does what it's supposed to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Splunk IT Essentials Work:

Splunk Insights is a good tool for any company trying to figure out how to better manage their infrastructure. Since the product is installed on servers, you can try before you buy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Splunk IT Essentials Work solving and how is that benefiting you?

Splunk helps address the business problem of making sure that our infrastructure is healthy and safe. While I primarily use this on Amazon Web Services infrastructure, it's made monitoring a tad easier and more transparent beyond what Amazon offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

George L.

Data Engineer

Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/11/2019

"Splunk helps with devops and fraud prevention"

4/5

What do you like best about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

The dashboard for splunk along with it's intuitive functionality allows you to easily navigate complex datasets and draw insights from all the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

I think sometimes the features can get a little cluttered and the plugins are varied and some are available only for on prem while some are available for cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Splunk IT Essentials Work:

I think splunk for insights is quite a great tool to know exactly what's going on with your servers and infrastructure within your company. Detect problems early and get going with your devops team fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Splunk IT Essentials Work solving and how is that benefiting you?

Splunk allows us to have better visibility of our applications and infrastructure and have better control over the resources on our servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/5/2019

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"Splunk for stopping the hackers"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

Sasy to install and get up to speed in dev enviorment. In an complex enterprise environment, there are hurdles with any product, but the Splunk community, as well as education and docs teams are incredibly helpful resources.

Splunk offer trial, dev, and dev/test licenses, to test and run Splunk for evaluation purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

. In an complex enterprise environment, there are hurdles with any product, configuratoin and installation depends on complexity of your environment, but the Splunk community, trainings and docs are helpful to resolve issues.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/28/2019

"Splunk Insights helps to easily upgrade to the Splunk Enterprise client"

4/5

What do you like best about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

The best part of splunk insights is all about Real Time Monitoring with Pre-Built Visualizations.

It gives you the best available options for visualizations. It helps with the monitoring and drill down to the core of the issue and makes it easy for any sysadmin in my team to better understand the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

The availability of so may different options and feature makes it really a complex machine to handle sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Splunk IT Essentials Work:

Make sure to have a dedicated support team who could assist you when things go wrong Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Splunk IT Essentials Work solving and how is that benefiting you?

The best part being that we are able to monitor all of our infrastructure at one place and make use of our huge log data and put it to better use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Accounting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/6/2019

"Great to monitor insights in real time"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

The system can monitor nearly every single system in my company's infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

The installation was simple and fast but it did require the installation of a number of physical and virtual appliances on-premise to collect and forward the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/6/2019

"Spunk Rocks"

5/5

What do you like best about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

Splunk Love the Ease of Reporting and dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Splunk IT Essentials Work?

Initial learning curve took some time but then it was a great tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Splunk IT Essentials Work:

Awesome reporting dashboard and options for great excel presentations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Splunk IT Essentials Work solving and how is that benefiting you?

Collaboration and automated report distribution across teams. Benefits of big data and charting for executive reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.