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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by akulbe »

bugsense wrote: post #38
tw04 wrote: post #11

Wow - I guess I'm both surprised and completely unsurprised. Surprised because Splunk is a pretty big pill to swallow. Unsurprised because they've obviously been interested in the space for a long time (they attempted to acquire Datadog and got shot down). https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/technology/cisco-r... Good luck Splunk folks - Cisco isn't exactly known for their software innovation in the upper stack…

Splunk is a dead player too. It's a great match.

What makes you say Splunk is a dead player?

Not arguing with you, it's genuine curiosity on my part.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by bugsense »

badblock wrote: post #15
burren wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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There’s a couple out there, Devo, Exabeam and Sumo Logic are the big three I’ve seen most recently.

SumoLogic is equally dead and a way inferior product. It's owned by a PE now, the same that owns New Relic so expect some action there.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by bugsense »

davidu wrote: post #20
projectileboy wrote: post #17

Does anyone have an example of an acquisition where the products of the acquired company then became better?

Meraki and OpenDNS both became better post acquisition, and in both cases I’d say it was because Cisco let them continue to maintain a lot of control, the leaders stayed around, and the majority of the engineering teams did, too. Cisco has a long list of successful acquisitions. The release says Gary will report to Chuck directly, which is a strong sign Chuck will make sure Splunk succeeds. (nb, I was CEO of OpenDNS)

So they will compete against AppDynamics for the same customers... Fun times.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by eigenvalue »

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 SQlite, which it then exposes to a very convenient web interface using Datasette.

I put it in a cronjob and it's infinitely better (at least for my purposes) than Splunk, which is just a total nightmare to use, and can be customized super easily and quickly. My coworkers all prefer it to Splunk as well. And oh yeah, it's totally free instead of costing my company thousands of dollars a year! If I owned CSCO stock I would sell it-- this deal shows incredibly bad judgment.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by phyzome »

chelmzy wrote: post #21
aeonik wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which ones do you recommend? Every one I have tried hasn't really given me the same flexibility as Splunk, most seem to miss the core part of what makes Splunk cool. Though I'd definitely like to see Splunk improve their design.

He's talking out of his ass. But newish competitors are Devo/Sumo Logic.

Not sure how well "new" fits Sumo Logic. I was using them ten years ago, I think?

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by joncrane »

leoc wrote: post #42

It's a strong effort, but not as cerebral as the classics, "Twitter Acquires Magic Pony" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11937756 and "Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt9MP70ODNw .

Perhaps it's a bit premature. There's no price point in the announcement so there may be some details that drag out...
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