10 engineers on Hacker News describe using Splunk first-hand: 3 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We moved to splunk now and mostly happy with it, mix of windows/linux/etc logs.”
endorse · production · IronWolve · 2026-08-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were using Splunk and if you're handing third parties your secrets, you're gonna have a bad time.”
regret · production · hinkley · 2026-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Splunk was a particular problem that way, but I also started seeing it with Grafana”
regret · production · hinkley · 2026-01-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've ended up more impressed with Logz.io and Splunk SaaS.”
endorse · production · clambordan · 2022-02-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use log4j and still spend a GDP on splunk sucking in files.”
regret · production · datavirtue · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use splunk in our office and i must admit, it's one of the greatest tools! to move from syslog to splunk has made life so much easier”
endorse · production · _ud4a · 2011-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved a business from splunk to ELK a couple of years ago.”
neutral · production · singingfish · 2023-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I spend a lot of time flipping between New Relic and Splunk, and my company spends a ton on both.”
neutral · production · reilly3000 · 2022-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use tools like Splunk and New Relic for monitoring”
neutral · production · giaour · 2019-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use quite a lot of custom built tools and Splunk to funnel the logs from everywhere”
neutral · production · 7ewis · 2017-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?