We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Provides a good level of tools and covers essential components."
"The nice thing about SolarWinds is that it's kind of all-in-one. I can manage the status of my networking devices, whether they are up or down, I can see how much traffic is going across an interface, and I can run a report that tells me exactly what that traffic is."
"The biggest thing for me is that it provided enough information for me to monitor. It alerts and provides you with the information you need."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"The most valuable feature is the way it monitors the environment, and how user-friendly the console is for the end-user. The interface is also very easy and it captures all the information very well."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"A product that is well-tested and trusted in demanding situations."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"Splunk Enterprise Security offers valuable features like seamless integration and a SQL-standard Structured Query Language for easy searching."
"Without Splunk Enterprise Security, it would be difficult for us to manage and prioritize alerts. There's a potential to lose track of important notifications, and it's essential to our security that we do not miss anything. Splunk has improved our investigations because the reporting and dashboarding make things so much easier. We can provide weekly or monthly reports. I also like Splunk's ability to integrate."
"The most valuable features of Splunk Enterprise Security are its high-performance data collection, flexible query language, and its versatility across the organization."
"Splunk UBA is useful for fraud detection and for detection of APTs, advanced persistent threats."
"The ability to rapidly diagnose problems in production and non-production, across hundreds of log files, is the most valuable feature."
"I am satisfied with the support."
"We can automatically suspend or terminate suspicious sessions."
"The fact that Splunk is a platform and not just a SIEM solution is a key benefit."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"The root cause analysis and installation faults are not clear."
"Its reporting can be improved. That's the only complaint I have heard. I don't need the reporting part, but I know that other people in the organization need it."
"The UI can be improved. Dashboards and reports can be better in terms of graphics."
"While Splunkbase (the app repository) has a lot of great content, some apps are terribly old and could stand to be updated or purged."
"The tool itself is very difficult to configure. It's great for its number of inputs, for the different types of systems devices, and things that it could collect information from. To actually make good use of it, you need a fairly dedicated team of people that have some reasonably good programming or modeling skills to be able to do the things that you need to do with it. Whereas a lot of the other tools are better packaged for that, and so require a lot less training and a lot less dedication."
"It is a challenge to manage the environment in such a way, that one’s log, even with the bandwidth license, isn’t exceeded."
"From the commercial point of view, they have to bring down their costs."
"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."
"Its pricing is extremely high. There are other tools out in the market that are competitive. They do not necessarily have all the functionality, but they are competitive. The professional services we have used have been high as well in comparison to the market."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". 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 NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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