About Splunk
Splunk is an AI-native data platform that brings together security and observability to help enterprises operate securely at scale. It serves security, IT operations, and development teams across complex digital ecosystems, delivering real-time insights and AI-powered workflows for faster detection, investigation, and response.
Key Features
In practice, Splunk acts as the data backbone for both security and reliability, turning machine data into actionable context across clouds, apps, and networks. It helps teams correlate signals in real time and respond with AI-assisted precision:
Real-time cross-domain insights
Ingests logs, metrics, traces, and events from AWS, Azure, GCP, private clouds, and on‑prem, with a data plane powered by AI to manage the machine data lifecycle.
Threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR)
Threat detection, investigation, and response in one workflow, with alert correlation, enrichment from threat intelligence, and AI-assisted investigations to speed triage and containment.
Observability across environments with agentic AI
Monitor and troubleshoot across any stack or network; agentic AI helps prioritize fixes based on business impact and accelerates anomaly detection.
Extensive integrations and OpenTelemetry support
Connects to 2,000+ integrations, apps, and add-ons; ingests logs, metrics, traces, and events from cloud providers and on‑prem sources, with built-in OpenTelemetry, SDKs, and agents.
Summary
Best for SecOps teams, SRE/IT operations, and platform engineers managing multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
Pricing
View pricingWorkload Pricing
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- Aligns payment with types of workload
- Economical for less frequently searched data
Ingest Pricing
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- Based on data ingestion
- Predictable costs for searches
Entity Pricing
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- Based on number of hosts
- Predictable and controllable costs
Activity-based pricing
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- Costs linked to monitored activities
- Includes metrics and trace analysis
