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Does anyone have an example of an acquisition where the products of the acquired company then became better?
Somebody: Splunk has exorbitant prices and locked-in enterprise customers! Cisco: Oh these guys are just like us. Better buy them up. We know this business.
when you read Hacker News thread - every single one of them feels like the world is falling apart. Splunk is a dud or so everyone here thinks: https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/23/splunk-shares-surge-stro...
I hated Splunk so much that I spent a couple days a few months ago writing a single 1200 line python script that does absolutely everything I need in terms of automatic log collection, ingestion, and analysis from a fleet of cloud instances. It pulls in all the log lines, enriches them with useful metadata like the IP address of the instance, the machine name, the log source, the datetime, etc. and stores it all in S…
I hated Splunk so much that I spent a couple days a few months ago writing a single 1200 line python script that does absolutely everything I need in terms of automatic log collection, ingestion, and analysis from a fleet of cloud instances. It pulls in all the log lines, enriches them with useful metadata like the IP address of the instance, the machine name, the log source, the datetime, etc. and stores it all in S…
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I think they’re trying to get off of it because it is so freaking expensive.
I used Splunk at a previous job and that’s one of my few/only complaints with it. Great tool but extremely expensive for what you get. Datadog is the same way as well as Pagerduty. There’s not enough competition in these spaces
Building splunk has become very democratised in today's day and age. Back in the day, logging, metrics, event collection etc. was a hard problem that they solved. Esp. when there weren't any simple distributed storage operators. They have been a cockroach in the orgs, surviving every downturn. As a dev, you might hate it, CISO and CIOs love it. Orgs, often mandate it. The way they dominated the market is via creating…
Anecdote, I once worked with a client that really wanted to get Splunk, but produced so much network traffic that the discounted annual costs were more than the entire budget for the rest of the organization combined. That's staff, the building, equipment, power, water, everything...the estimated Splunk cost was more than that.
They went with a combination of ELK and a small team of dedicated developers writing automation and analytics against Spark and some enterprise SQL database. Still expensive, still cheaper than Splunk.
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they price-out medium customers so mind-share decreases
It's better -because it's easier to scale- to sell a single 1M$ license than selling a thousand 1000$ licenses.