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Comment by flounder3

Splunk, as a company, is a shell of its former self. All they care about is pimping themselves out to maximize profits to an extreme that only Dilbert can relate to, even at the expense of destroying a long term professional relationship over trivial matters. They are more than happy to kill a deal over a 5% disagreement rather than understand the needs of a Fortune 500 customer and negotiate.

They are mad because Cribl is good at transforming data before it ingested by Splunk, so as to reduce the amount of data that is indexed. Period.

Splunk ONLY RECENTLY released “Ingest Actions” to filter data post-ingest (to avoid indexing) for their SaaS product — something that has always been a mainstay of their on-premise “Enterprise” product. Their ONLY suggestion to filter data that we didn’t care to index in early 2021? Cribl. There’s literally no other reason for us to use Cribl.

I’ve been paying for Splunk since 2008 and can’t wait to get away from them. Their sales teams have decayed into unethical slimebags and I am trying everything in my power to not renew our contracts with them. This just sealed the deal.

Source: I cut checks to Splunk for $x,xxx,xxx yearly

parent flounder3 4 years ago

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