Splunk

Splunk sells a data platform that lets organisations search and analyse machine data for security, observability and AI work. It is now a Cisco company.

What Splunk offers

• Security operations — threat detection, investigation and response, including an agentic security operations centre approach.
• Observability — monitoring of infrastructure and applications to prevent downtime and speed up troubleshooting.
• Agent observability — tools to observe, govern and secure AI agents, models and infrastructure.
• Data analytics — searching, routing and analysing telemetry where it is stored, including tiered data at very large scale.
• AI assistants — agents that help teams predict and fix issues.

Who it works with

Its customers are mainly IT, security and business operations teams that need to act on data from many systems, including Internet of Things sources.

Key facts

• Owner: Cisco
• Platform focus: security, observability and AI
• Earlier positioning: described as a Data-to-Everything platform