We performed a comparison between Grafana and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"It has good stability."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"Splunk can extract all kinds of data. There's no limitation on what kind of structured and unstructured data one needs to extract — it can access any kind of data, including machine-generated data."
"We can present to our management in real time the security of the batch management for the PCs, security regarding the network equipment. We're currently working in the Azure Cloud project, so we can send any logs from the cloud to Splunk. We can monitor them and we can present to the managers and customers. It's a very good solution for reporting. We use Splunk for reporting and monitoring of any solution in the company."
"It is easy to use in any environment."
"The solution's newly developed dashboard is pretty amazing."
"The solution has plenty of features that are good."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to transact in the cloud and its ability to onboard data easily with minimum connectors."
"Integration with the cloud is pretty important and good for us. We found the integration with a lot of tools, not all tools yet, valuable. It does make the transfer of data, log files, and other things easier for us."
"Splunk is extremely flexible, which allows us to create custom visualizations along with other customizations."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"Endpoint access is the only issue I can think to mention, even though the endpoint access we have with Cisco is fine."
"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."
"An improved user interface along with multi-tenancy support would be beneficial."
"It would be nice if they had a wizard to construct searches, including more complex searches that include math or statistics."
"It needs integration with a configuration management solution."
"It does not give us permission to implement on-premise so we implement them on the cloud."
"The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"The product's price may be an area of concern where improvements are required."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". 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 ". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Grafana vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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