Data can provide insights for multiple personas. Splunk is a unified security and observability platform, and customers can often gain additional value from the data they already have available to them within the platform. I recently had a chat with Kris Hutchinson about how Insights Suite for Splunk (IS4S) helps customers maximize value for their Splunk investment.

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hey everyone out here at the spun Tech Summit I’ve been talking to Hutch here about Insight suite for Splunk something brand new can you give me some more information about it and what it is what it does sure thank you so uh we we have really been focusing on on selling value like making sure our customers want to renew or expand based on this incredible value that they’re getting out of the platform so as part of the unified engagement model of selling we wanted to way and automated way that we could assess a customer’s environment showing them how they’re using it and making sure that it aligns with their investment goals so who’s using it how often are they using it are they searching the right data the right data sources and data types for their critical business needs and then be able to Trend that over time like how are we doing on a Monday to how are we doing on that following Friday how are we doing at the beginning of the quarter and how are we doing at the end of the quarter are we moving towards our investment goals or are we moving away so the Insight Suite was born out of that um running search collections is fors at a very high level is is a place for any search collection we just happen to be shipping the value insights collections to support em as part of our initial release and we are GA can be gotten on Splunk base um we went GA last Friday um we had some great private previews with some with some customers and what they found was they really like the visibility into understanding how they were truly using the platform and it made them feel really comfortable with decisions that they we’re making so we’re seeing the C customers are giving that giving us really good feedback into how that’s helping them just understand how they are using the platform and the value that they’re getting out of it so Splunk being a platform you can use it for so many things so Insight suite’s going to help you understand how you’re using the platform and maybe go into additional use cases with the platform that’s absolutely correct so uh a portion of it as I mentioned is understanding what data sources people are looking at so we can go through and scan and knowing what they’re paying for it now they know that but if they can go in and see based on the data that you currently have you can do 50% more things just by adding slightly new data sources as we know the more variety of data that somebody has in Splunk those use cases are going to expand exponentially with every single data stream so um we are going to be doing uh helping C customers discover that but apart from that even though value insights The Collection is for Value we’ve had two groups within the last two weeks within Splunk create an es adoption collection they just plugged it in and they were able to get the trending of the the forwards and backwards of who is using ES and how well they’re using it the the slunk efficiency score which is a part of the uem engagement as well is now an automated collection in is for us so they’re exposing different different things that are bring in value to the customer but it’s very specific for a specific need and so is for us is a home for all of that for any collection that needs to be made any any insights that need to be gleaned out of a customer’s instance will be able to do an an automated ongoing fashion with search space kind of like a 24x7 SE a virtual SE at the customer site all the time right on so you get some more value out of the platform that I already own that’s right yeah so I want to get some more information where can I go find some more information about all of this okay well it’s it’s out on Splunk face as a download great that sounds fantastic thanks so much hush thank you [Music]