Splunk

Data platform for security, observability, and custom applications with integrated AI/ML

San Francisco, United States Founded 2003 1000-5000 employees SaaS

About Splunk

Splunk provides data platform software for security, observability, and digital resilience. Its technology helps organizations collect, search, analyze, and act on machine-generated data from applications, infrastructure, networks, cloud environments, and endpoints. Splunk is part of Cisco, combining its software portfolio with Cisco’s broader technology ecosystem. The Splunk portfolio includes Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform for data analysis, Splunk Enterprise Security for security information and event management, and Splunk Observability Cloud for monitoring applications and infrastructure. Security teams use capabilities such as SIEM, security orchestration, automation, and response to investigate threats and coordinate incident handling. IT operations and engineering teams use observability, logs, metrics, traces, and monitoring tools to find service issues and understand system performance. Organizations use Splunk to support threat detection, security operations, incident response, application monitoring, troubleshooting, and service reliability across hybrid technology environments. Its platform is designed to turn large volumes of operational data into searchable evidence and actionable insights. Relevant areas include enterprise security software, SIEM, cloud observability, log analytics, IT operations, and data-driven cyber resilience.