We performed a comparison between Splunk Enterprise Security and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to quickly search logs, performance data, and other inputs has helped tremendously with troubleshooting."
"Splunk has significantly reduced the time in performing the task of aggregating logs, reviewing as well as time spent during investigations."
"The tool helps with advanced reports and keeps the system scalable and flexible. It provides a clear picture of the current status of any incidents. As a CISO, I see a lot of potential for future innovation, which is interesting. I've noticed better performance, especially with the reports."
"Splunk stands out for its extensive application integrations."
"There are quite a lot of things that we find useful. Splunk agents are useful and good. Its UI is quite impressive."
"It is easy to use in any environment."
"We have a one stop dashboard for health of some of our services where you can click in and it takes you to other dashboards that have custom near real-time metrics that show the application's health."
"Splunk's visualizations make it easy for users to understand the data."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"The documentation is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"It can be tough to get a hold of somebody in technical support depending on the complexity of the issue."
"Splunk is not very user-friendly. It has a complex architecture in comparison to other solutions on the market."
"For on-premise, it's more about optimization. With such a heavy byte scale of data that we are operating on, the search for disparate data sometimes takes about a minute. This is understandable considering the amount of data that we are pumping into it. The only optimization that I recommend is better sharding, when it comes to Splunk, so that data retrieval can be faster."
"It can be tough to determine if you are getting all of the value out of your investment at times."
"There are a lot of competitive products that are doing better than what Splunk is doing on the analytics side."
"Many of my clients want to get better at Splunk, but they're afraid of using the tool because they feel it's too complex for them."
"Over time I will have more requirements and I can foresee the solution could improve the search algorithm to run and output the data faster."
"It currently has limited default rules and customizations. If they can concentrate more on the compliance part and the security information part, it would be helpful. The platform part is good, but it requires many features from the security aspect."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 251 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Azure Monitor. See our Splunk Enterprise Security vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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