Splunk is a leading platform for AI-powered security and observability, designed to revolutionize digital resilience for organizations worldwide. It enables enterprises to prevent major issues, absorb shocks, and accelerate digital transformation by leveraging AI across their digital ecosystems.
Key Features and Capabilities:
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AI-Native Data Platform: Splunk provides a flexible data platform that offers real-time insights from cross-domain machine data, regardless of its location. It manages the entire machine data lifecycle, helping to reduce costs through AI and agentic workflows. This platform is foundational for both security and observability, unifying data collection and analysis.
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AI-Powered Security: The platform streamlines Security Operations (SecOps) with unified threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). It uses AI to correlate and enrich alerts with threat intelligence, enabling security teams to defend against sophisticated threats with enhanced precision and speed. Specific use cases include advanced threat detection (combating insider threats, credential access, lateral movement) and fraud prevention (proactive monitoring, outlier detection, quantifying business impact).
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AI-Powered Observability: Splunk Observability Cloud offers real-time visibility across any environment, stack, or network. It helps monitor and troubleshoot performance, optimizing it based on business impact. Agentic AI accelerates detection and response, reducing alert noise by 90% or more, and improving Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time To Resolve (MTTR). Key observability features include AI-driven incident prediction (AIOps) for proactive outage prevention and application performance monitoring (APM) for real-time troubleshooting and performance optimization.
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AI Built for Security and Observability: Splunk's AI capabilities are deeply integrated, allowing users to detect, investigate, and respond at AI speed. It supports natural language processing for deep insights from operational data, facilitates troubleshooting and workflow streamlining with agentic AI, and enables the building and deployment of AI models. The platform also helps secure and observe AI applications themselves.
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Extensive Integrations: The platform boasts over 2,000 integrations, apps, and add-ons, making data connections seamless. It ingests logs, metrics, traces, and events from diverse sources like AWS, Azure, GCP, private clouds, and on-premises environments, regardless of format. Support for OpenTelemetry, SDKs, and agents ensures flexible application instrumentation. This connectivity extends to business applications, databases, and IT services, ensuring data availability where it's most needed.
Unique Selling Points:
- Unified Platform: Splunk offers a single, unified platform for both security and observability, breaking down silos and providing comprehensive visibility across the entire digital landscape.
- AI-Driven Innovation: Deep integration of AI and agentic workflows across all offerings allows for faster detection, more precise response, and proactive incident prevention.
- Industry Recognition: Splunk is consistently recognized as a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ reports for both Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (11 consecutive times) and Observability Platforms (3 consecutive times), underscoring its market leadership and robust capabilities.
- Customer Success: Trusted by global leaders, Splunk helps organizations achieve digital resilience, protect revenue, and enhance customer experience, as highlighted in various customer success stories.
Splunk's focus is on empowering organizations to operate securely and reliably at any scale, even in complex digital ecosystems, by transforming how they manage and derive value from their machine data.
