We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Pingdom and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"We did not encounter any issues with scalability. It is almost seamless to add new index (storage) or search (used to analyze the data) nodes to the cluster."
"The integration is seamless with many devices and operating systems."
"In the past we used the different application to collect logs. We used SurfWatch and VMware to do so. But, we found that the Splunk has more capacity to do more in less time. They provide a aster speed to index all the events , and this is a huge asset."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the dashboard. It's very intuitive."
"Splunk provides immediate visibility into key business metrics and new business insights that deliver immediate value."
"The feature that I have found most valuable with Splunk is the ability to sift through a bunch of data very quickly."
"Low barrier to start searching with the ability to normalize data on the fly."
"Splunk has helped improve our company's resilience level."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"While Splunk Enterprise Security offers valuable features, its cost is high and could be more competitive."
"They should make data onboarding easier."
"Spam has different plugins but by default, the logs are not organized, it shows that there are roll-ups that are out of the box. I saw many plugins that can help improve or extend Splunk's functionality but I haven't tried any of them."
"The historical data extraction needs improvement. I would like the capability of taking data and having it trend longer."
"There is a definite learning curve to starting out."
"It's costly."
"The Enterprise Security app could be improved. We have had trouble with it working from the first day."
"Splunk is more expensive than other solutions."
SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 48th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 251 reviews. SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". 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 ". SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana and Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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