We performed a comparison between Nagios Log Server and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It provides an easy way to identify errors and spot issues, making troubleshooting more efficient."
"The product is scalable."
"A great feature of the solution involves its internal portal."
"The initial setup of Nagios Log Server was easy and straightforward."
"One of the most valuable features is the dashboard because the UI was effective and easy to use. The alert systems are good as well. We had no failovers and had high availability. We can search the queries fast as well in Nagios Log Server."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Enterprise Security is the comprehensive logging capabilities it provides."
"It is very stable. We have not had any problems."
"We used it to create a custom anomaly detection data model to monitor the activity of our back-end services on an hourly basis relative to the past three months of activity."
"The correlation capabilities are the first value that our clients say they like with Splunk."
"It scales better in the cloud than on-premise."
"The best part of Splunk Enterprise Security is its customizable settings."
"It is easy to use, and easy to implement."
"It allows us to digest the information, the data, the different data streams, so we can make decisions based upon information that we receive, and it is pretty robust."
"The configurations during initial setup could be improved. If they could be agentless, as in the case of the Ansible product, it would be better. I would like to be able to analyze the network bandwidth."
"The support could be better."
"As we are talking about a product which is open to the public, the pricing makes it challenging for us to profit off of its marketing."
"It would be beneficial for Nagios to incorporate a tool that goes beyond log management and includes features to monitor overall system health and assess the effectiveness of antivirus solutions."
"The customization and dashboards have shortcomings and need to be improved to make the tool look more presentable."
"It could be more user friendly, in terms of the end-user experience."
"It's difficult to set up initially, and their billing model is also a bit complicated."
"The historical data extraction needs improvement. I would like the capability of taking data and having it trend longer."
"The search could be improved. Now, it is a bit difficult to write search queries because they become quite long, then maintaining those long search queries is a quite challenging."
"Deployment is not difficult but the lock sources and configurations can take time."
"I would like to see an updated dashboard. The dashboard is a little out-of-date. It could be made prettier."
"AngularJS/ReactJS inclusion could be made easier in GUI."
"The solution has a high learning curve for users. It's a little complicated when you're trying to figure out all the features and what they do."
Nagios Log Server is ranked 40th in Log Management with 5 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 251 reviews. Nagios Log Server is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nagios Log Server writes "A scalable and affordable tool for monitoring data centers ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". Nagios Log Server is most compared with Wazuh, Graylog, LogRhythm SIEM, syslog-ng and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Nagios Log Server vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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