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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by manicennui »

ilyt wrote: post #322
manicennui wrote: post #289

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This comment is incredibly naive. Cisco isn't making acquisition decisions based on your happiness. Splunk's revenue is increasing every year and their losses decrease. It is an incredibly popular tool that complements their products and services well.

Expect entering splunk API key in next generation of their OSes for seamless monitoring

I don't know about their router/switch OSes in particular, but a lot of their products already have Splunk integration and they seem to have a couple of products built on top of Splunk.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by sublimefire »

wholinator2 wrote: post #321
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #161

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They bought WebEx for the same reason as most of their other acquisitions: vertical integration and diversified interests. It doesn't even have to work well, it just has to be a feature they can advertise, and dumb executives will assume it works and buy it. By the time they've got their hooks into you, you realize it'll take years to remove it. Pretty good cash flow for years before the customer jumps ship. What's f…

Yes honestly webex may be the single worst piece of software I've ever used in my entire life. I remember having to use it for some school projects back in the day and it working slower than a snails pace. You literally could not type anything into the computer because it was so slow it would just lose letters and take 10 seconds or so to update your keypresses. Years later i had to use it for remote work for a compa…

My experience was different. I did not know it existed before joining a team in Cisco to work on the signalling part. Afterwards when moving to Microsoft I saw how terrible Teams was in comparison. But to this day I would love to get back to Slack if truth be told :)

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by baq »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #311
baq wrote: post #277

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That's why companies die in the long run. Microsoft dominated the nineties especially and the naughts less so but still because the marginal price of their OS was zero - due to piracy. Yes they didn't like business to run unlicensed but if you were a customer, nobody cared, because in 5-10-20 years you'd be a paying business or would work for a paying business. Splunk doesn't get that. There are no hobbyist/prosumer…

> Splunk doesn't get that. There are no hobbyist/prosumer splunk installations. Zero. Nada. Not true. I ran a free (legit!) Splunk instance in my homelab for years. It's been several years since I shut the homelab down, so I couldn't tell you if they still have hobbyist licensing, but they certainly had it in the past.

I’ll call you an unicorn :)

I know they have a free license for super small deployments but haven’t heard of anyone actually using it.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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eigenvalue wrote: post #47

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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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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bane wrote: post #108

To pile onto the Splunk "love" going on here. Splunk is one of those systems that's too "powerful" for small use-cases, but too expensive for the ones it's really designed for. 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 buildin…

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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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tedivm wrote: post #179

> Someone at Cisco did the math on how much a license would cost and some snarky soul, kin to my own, said "Are we sure it wouldn't be cheaper to buy Splunk?" That's from a friend of mine in a tech chat.

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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by baq »

andrewjl wrote: post #313
bane wrote: post #108

To pile onto the Splunk "love" going on here. Splunk is one of those systems that's too "powerful" for small use-cases, but too expensive for the ones it's really designed for. 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 buildin…

Having used other ELK stacks for logging, but never Splunk, what makes them worth what they charge?

It mostly just works. Back when I was actively using it it was IIRC the most stable part of the stack. Only went down when daily quota was exceeded. When it ran out of disk, nothing broke, it showed a message in the ui. When space was added, it just started going again like nothing happened. This was something like 2018?
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