Cisco vs Splunk

About Splunk

Splunk sells a data platform for security, observability, and AI, and says the platform unifies petabyte-scale machine data wherever it lives.

Splunk says its unified platform gives teams cross-domain context for security, observability, and AI and keeps telemetry where it lives. Splunk says teams can search and analyze data where it lives to reduce costs. Splunk says its platform preserves full access and context for AI and analytics without the ingest tax or unnecessary data movement.

On the security side, Splunk says adversaries using AI are shrinking remediation windows from months to minutes. Splunk says its answer combines unified data, advanced TDIR, and AI agents that enable experts to mitigate threats across any attack surface. Splunk says teams can use AI agents and assistants to predict and prevent issues, eliminate toil, and accelerate remediation safely. Splunk describes a SOAR system that integrates orchestration, playbook automation, and case management. Splunk names Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, and the Splunk Common Information Model as Splunk solutions that use pre-written macros.^[1][12][17]

Splunk describes AI Assistant in Security as available to cloud customers of Splunk Enterprise Security, and says it automates repetitive steps and guides analysts in daily investigation workflows. Splunk describes a Triage Agent, in alpha, that evaluates, prioritises, and explains alerts. Splunk describes an Automation Builder Agent, in alpha, that turns natural language into SOAR playbooks. Splunk describes a Malware Threat Reversing Agent for customers of Splunk Attack Analyzer that summarizes threats by breaking down malicious scripts.^[18]

Splunk Cloud Platform is described as a way to collect, index, and visualize data in the cloud. Splunk Enterprise is described as collecting, indexing, and visualizing data using an on-premises engine. Splunk describes Splunkbase as the place to discover, share, and install apps and add-ons with the Splunk community. Splunk says teams can connect and act on data through integrations and apps on Splunkbase, across cloud, SaaS, IT, and machine data from OT and IoT. Splunk says teams can instrument with native OpenTelemetry support, SDKs, and agents.^[12]

Splunk describes Federated Search as the unifying search layer across the data estate, covering Splunk-managed locations and supported customer-managed stores such as Amazon S3 and Snowflake. Splunk describes Splunk AI Assistant as a natural-language entry point to the search workflow. Agent Mode is available in Splunk AI Assistant 2.1 or later for supported Splunk Cloud Platform and Cloud Connected deployments running Splunk platform 10.1 or later. Splunk describes the Splunk AI Toolkit as providing step-by-step guided workflows to build and deploy models for common business challenges.^[19][20]

Splunk says Splunk Edge Processor applies cryptographic functions to data in real time as the data flows within an on-premises environment. Splunk says ODBC-enabled apps such as Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and Tableau can connect to the Splunk platform, with SQL queries used to interact with the server. Splunk describes Splunk Log Observer Connect as an integration that lets logs on Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud Platform be queried and associated with Related Content in Splunk Observability Cloud.^{[12][19][21][22]}

On the observability side, Splunk says teams can use AI SRE agents to isolate root causes across environments and identify targeted fixes such as rollbacks or capacity adjustments. Splunk says teams can track LLM token usage with visibility and attribution. Splunk describes a healthcare organization using the Splunk platform to monitor and analyze logs generated from medical devices.^{[12][13][14][19][21]}