Introducing the Insights Suite for Splunk (IS4S)

Introducing Splunk's simple answer to help track usage, adoption, and — most importantly — value, while also helping to uncover new use cases, optimize performance, and demonstrate your return of investment.

Are You Really Getting the Most From Your Splunk Deployment?

Every Splunk environment tells a different story, but knowing whether that story reflects progress, potential, or missed opportunity can be difficult. Wouldn’t it be great if you could answer questions like:

• Are users adopting the platform as expected?
• Are data sources being used effectively?
• Are outcomes aligned with investment?

The Insights Suite for Splunk (IS4S) is designed to help answer those questions and many more; quickly, clearly, and confidently.

So, What Exactly is IS4S?

At its core, IS4S is a combination of curated analytics with intelligent guidance. It gives you a clear view of what’s happening in your environment, how people are using Splunk, which data sources are driving value, and where data can be reused for other use cases.

The suite is made up of 3 major components: Value Insights and Use Case Explorer, both of which are powered by a powerful engine we call Searchbase.

So let's dive a little deeper into these…

Value Insights helps you track platform usage and adoption over time. It shows how users interact with the platform, from logins and searches to app engagement, while surfacing trends that can inform onboarding, optimization, and support. It also provides historical metrics, allowing teams to measure progress and identify where interventions may be needed.

Use Case Explorer, meanwhile, scans your Splunk environment to identify the use cases you're already running, and highlights others you could be. By mapping your sourcetypes to Splunk Lantern’s extensive library of use cases, it helps reveal untapped value, aligns your deployment with best practices, and shows how your data can work harder for you. Whether exploring independently or with the support of a Splunk expert, you can gain a clear, actionable understanding of what’s possible with their existing data.

At the heart of it all is Searchbase, the search repository that powers every collection of searches in IS4S. Searchbase gives you a flexible way to manage and run curated searches, complete with extended metadata, tags, categories, and filtering options. It’s more than just an engine, it’s a platform for sharing and scaling best practices across teams and departments.

Why We Built It

We created IS4S because we’ve seen the same challenge again and again: Users want to measure and demonstrate value, but the tools to do so are often fragmented, manual, or overly complex.

There wasn’t a consistent way to answer the questions at the start of this post, nor value based  questions like:

• How are we using Splunk today?
• Are we improving over time?
• Which use cases are we realizing?
• What could we be doing next?

IS4S provides that framework. It offers a single place to assess performance, analyze usage, and map future maturity, all through the lens of your actual data. With little setup, teams gain clarity around their deployment and gain the data driven insights to aid in future planning and decision making, or indeed be able to easily report to other stakeholders in the business.

Designed For Everyone

One of the biggest strengths of IS4S is its broad appeal across different personas in your organization.

For executives, it provides a clear picture of how Splunk is being adopted and where value is being realized. With executive-ready dashboards and the ability to export insights into presentation formats, IS4S makes it easy to bring data to strategic conversations and demonstrate ROI in business terms.

For technical teams, it surfaces actionable data about user behavior, system performance, and adoption blockers. Whether you’re tuning for efficiency, onboarding new users, or planning your next data onboarding sprint, IS4S gives you the context you need to make smart decisions.

For solution engineers, CSMs, and architects, IS4S opens the door to more impactful customer conversations. With minimal overhead, it supports data-driven discussions around platform maturity, use case expansion, and value realization, making it easier to guide customers on their journey.

More Than Just Metrics

IS4S is more than just a monitoring tool, it’s a value discovery engine. It doesn’t just tell you what’s happening; it shows you what’s possible. To ease that display of value, we have created capabilities like Dashboard Builder.

With the Dashboard Builder, you can quickly generate customizable dashboards based on the metrics that matter most. Whether preparing for a technology business review or internal strategy session, these dashboards tell a story, backed by data, tailored to your audience.

And because every component is pre-configured from Searchbase, you can trust that the insights are built on scalable, flexible searches you can adapt to your environment, or expand upon as your needs grow.

Why Now?

Splunk environments are dynamic. Teams grow, data changes, and goals evolve. Having a continuous feedback loop is essential, not just to prove value, but to drive it.

With IS4S, that loop is finally within reach.

Try IS4S Today

The Insights Suite for Splunk is available now and can be installed and configured with just a few clicks. From the first launch, you’ll start seeing insights that can shape your platform’s future.

👉 Download Insights Suite for Splunk on Splunkbase
👉 Download Searchbase on Splunkbase

Whether you’re driving adoption, scaling a team, or preparing for renewal, IS4S helps you see your Splunk environment more clearly and get more value from every click, search, and sourcetype.