Is Your Splunk Environment Actually Helping You Detect Threats, Or Just Creating More Noise?

If you’re dealing with constant alert fatigue, ballooning ingestion costs, and dashboards that don’t drive action, your SIEM might be doing more harm than good.

This free checklist helps security teams assess whether their Splunk environment is healthy, efficient, and tuned for real outcomes, not just volume.

What’s Inside:

• How to spot the most common signs of Splunk drift and overload
• The operational red flags that indicate deeper SIEM inefficiencies
• Whether your team is spending time on what matters or drowning in noise
• What happens when Splunk gets noisy: delayed response, wasted analyst time, and reporting no one trusts

Why It Matters

Splunk is powerful, but without tuning and hygiene, it can spiral fast. This checklist breaks it down across five core areas:

• Alert Volume & Fatigue
• Data Ingestion & Hygiene
• Detection Logic
• Reporting & Executive Visibility
• Team Capacity & 24/7 Readiness

Who It’s For

• SIEM owners and admins managing Splunk environments
  
• Detection engineers overwhelmed with false positives
  
• SOC leads looking to tighten fidelity and coverage
  
• CISOs under pressure to prove maturity without more tools