# ELK Stack vs Splunk for Your Advise? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\ **Created:** [September 5, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716 "2015-09-05T14:13:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Henry\_Pan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/henry_pan/32/1489_2.png) [@Henry\_Pan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henry_Pan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716/1 "2015-09-05T14:13:01Z")
Would you please share your take on Splunk vs ELK Stack? Thanks in advance + Happy Labor Day w/e – Henry ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716/2 "2015-09-05T23:28:58Z")
They're both great tools that can happily exist side-by-side. What do you want to know exactly? ---
**Author:** ![Henry\_Pan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/henry_pan/32/1489_2.png) [@Henry\_Pan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henry_Pan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716/3 "2015-09-05T23:48:37Z")
Tks Mark for your kindly replay, I wish to know for a huge hospital group, which solution will be a better fit? Cheers + Happy Labor Day w/e Henry ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716/4 "2015-09-05T23:55:44Z")
That's not really something anyone can answer without understanding more about your requirements. ---
**Author:** ![Henry\_Pan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/henry_pan/32/1489_2.png) [@Henry\_Pan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henry_Pan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716/5 "2015-09-06T00:09:19Z")
Ha-ha Mark, Whom should I reach out to discuss in more detail? Tks by Henry ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716/6 "2015-09-06T00:11:55Z")
You can ask for community opinions here, or I can put you in touch with our Solution Architect team if you'd like. ---
**Author:** ![Henry\_Pan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/henry_pan/32/1489_2.png) [@Henry\_Pan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henry_Pan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716/7 "2015-09-06T00:42:53Z")
Sure Mark, Please put me in touch with your Solution Architect team. Tks by Henry ---
**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716/8 "2015-09-06T15:15:33Z")
Hi Henry, You'll find there are lots and lots of factors involved in deciding here. For example: - Which one are you after: Cloud or On Premises solution - Are you going to index/search only things like app and server logs or also other business information - Do you need user management, access control, etc. - Do you want to manage the underlying infrastructure and ELK on it, or do you want to just call somebody when things break - How much data are you dealing with (think volume discounts) - ... Some options: - Splunk - very powerful, mainly on premises solution, expensive and, if all you want is "supergrep" _really_ too expensive for that use case - DIY ELK - no license fees, but you'll end up spending $ on building various features, either right away if you already know you need N features or incrementally and over time as users start demanding features that ELK doesn't have. - DIY ELK v2 - same as above + consulting/support from Elastic or Sematext to avoid mistakes, help with scaling, provide production support, etc. - Hosted/Cloud ELK (e.g. our Logsene - [http://sematext.com/logsene](http://sematext.com/logsene) ) - this means you don't need to buy/maintain the hardware or manage Elasticsearch part of ELK. - On Premises ELK (but a version comes with a number of enterprise features, not the bare-bones DIY ELK - see Logsene again) - Other hosted solutions - Logentries, Loggly, etc. I hope this helps. ## Otis Monitoring \* Alerting \* Anomaly Detection \* Centralized Log Management Solr & Elasticsearch Support \* [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) tel: +1 347 480 1610 fax: +1 718 679 9190 ---
**Author:** ![Henry\_Pan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/henry_pan/32/1489_2.png) [@Henry\_Pan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henry_Pan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716/9 "2016-03-11T16:19:26Z")
Saluting Otis for your sound advice! Henry ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-vs-splunk-for-your-advise/28716/10 "2017-07-06T13:44:32Z")