topic Re: Splunk Free Version for small company in Security https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Splunk-Free-Version-for-small-company/m-p/628440#M16555 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/253251">@kmm1</a>,</P><P>if you ask the innkeeper if the wine is good you will always get the same answer: excellent and abundant!</P><P>joking aside, the first thing to check is whether 500 MB/day is enough for you: as long as you have logs from a firewall or a proxy and you certainly exceed this limit.</P><P>In addition, Splunk Free lacks some important features such as system login.</P><P>So I recommend you analyze your daily indexed log volume requirements and see how much a Splunk Cloud solution would cost you which I don't think is that expensive for small volumes.</P><P>Ciao.</P><P>Giuseppe</P> Thu, 26 Jan 2023 10:18:23 GMT gcusello 2023-01-26T10:18:23Z Splunk Free Version for small company https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Splunk-Free-Version-for-small-company/m-p/628437#M16554 <P>Hello&nbsp;</P><P>I work for a company with max 12 workstations to monitor, and we only want to log critical logs from these stations. Is Splunk Free a good option?</P> Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:40:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Splunk-Free-Version-for-small-company/m-p/628437#M16554 kmm1 2023-01-26T09:40:29Z Re: Splunk Free Version for small company https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Splunk-Free-Version-for-small-company/m-p/628440#M16555 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/253251">@kmm1</a>,</P><P>if you ask the innkeeper if the wine is good you will always get the same answer: excellent and abundant!</P><P>joking aside, the first thing to check is whether 500 MB/day is enough for you: as long as you have logs from a firewall or a proxy and you certainly exceed this limit.</P><P>In addition, Splunk Free lacks some important features such as system login.</P><P>So I recommend you analyze your daily indexed log volume requirements and see how much a Splunk Cloud solution would cost you which I don't think is that expensive for small volumes.</P><P>Ciao.</P><P>Giuseppe</P> Thu, 26 Jan 2023 10:18:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Splunk-Free-Version-for-small-company/m-p/628440#M16555 gcusello 2023-01-26T10:18:23Z