VIDEO: Splunk Review: Top Features, Pros, And Cons

splunk is a data analytics tool that lets users index and analyze machine data to produce valuable business insights in this video we'll take a look at splunk enterprise covering some of its standout features and exploring its pros and cons but if you're still not sure which data analytics tool is right for you we can help use our product selection tool at technologyadvice.com to get a free list of business intelligence software recommendations click the link in the description below to get started splunk enterprise is not your typical data analytics tool this system collects machine data from just about anything you want including internet of things devices microservices software applications log files remote sensors and network devices from there splunk indexes the data to make it accessible and then allows users to search and analyze that data splunk enterprise is compatible with a variety of different operating systems and comes in four different pricing options at the time of publication machine data is notoriously difficult to analyze but splunk aims to make it easier and because the system works with a variety of connectors organizations use it for diverse use cases from security and network monitoring to customer service to maintaining system uptime splunk works by connecting to machine data sources and forwarding data to the system where it is then stored and indexed in this way splunk works kind of like a search engine except instead of using natural language processing like google or bing splunk uses something called search processing language or spl similar to structured query language or sql spl lets users search and analyze unstructured data this allows users to easily analyze and create reports visualizations alerts and dashboards from unstructured data which would normally be very difficult and time consuming to do splunk doesn't currently offer a no code experience for analyzing machine data but it does offer some free learning materials on its website for learning spl splunk also lets you build and apply machine learning models to many of the processes the system performs this might be the most valuable for producing predictive analytics and because splunk can forward and index such large quantities of data users can constantly train models for better performance implementing machine learning typically requires a lot of data science resources but splunk makes ml a little more accessible to regular users the system comes with guided workflows called smart assistance for models addressing common problems like applying ml to spl commands clustering numeric events to discover unseen patterns and running time series forecasting if you find you need more specific support than what smart assistants can provide splunk also offers a free machine learning customer advisory program that connects customers with splunk data science resources for solving specific problems while splunk doesn't currently support a no code environment for conducting searches it does provide a no code analytics workspace for making reports analytics and dashboards the analytics workspace is a user interface that lets you analyze metrics and create interactive reports without having to use spl you will still need to use spl to convert events data into structured metrics but after you do this anyone can use the analytics workspace to create visualizations and dashboards regardless of coding experience now let's look at some of the pros and cons of splunk enterprise splunk offers a clean intuitive user interface that helps you get the most out of the system and the system can do a lot you can connect splunk to almost any machine data source and apply machine learning models to produce real-time forecasts and cover hidden insights additionally the system's forwarders are quite fast and the system itself is easy to deploy and available on a number of different operating systems splunk is a powerful data analytics tool while many users will see a lot of value from the system others might find it to be expensive if you're considering splunk it's a good idea to explore all the pricing options to determine if your budget will allow you to get enough value from the system finally splunk uses its own code language for search spl without learning spl users won't be able to tap into the benefits of splunk the system does not currently support a no-code experience still not sure if splunk is right for you use our product selection tool to get a free list of business intelligence software recommendations click the button on the left to get started

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