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 important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The solution has good features."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"Recently, Splunk upgraded to version 9.0.02, which includes excellent data dashboards and visualization effects."
"It's very flexible. If you look from the cloud implementation it is there. Reports are made quickly. Unlike other tools, it caters to all kinds of technical information on the front very easily. There's no need to put in any technical information. You can pull on the reports very easily, take action, and notify stakeholders."
"The logs on the solution are excellent."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is a standard solution providing good customer service and partnership."
"It scales better in the cloud than on-premise."
"Ease of correlation, creating correlation searches are easy and you can combine multiple sources with little effort"
"The integration is seamless with many devices and operating systems."
"Exporting is a good feature. It helps me out when I have to do reports. I do a lot of exporting and crunching of the numbers. Dashboards are okay for showing to the leadership, but for doing statistics and updating tickets, the export feature is very beneficial for me."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The solution should include online support."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Splunk has a steeper learning curve, making it feel less user-friendly."
"It needs more formatting control without having to be an admin."
"My company could benefit from doing more Splunk training with Splunk consultants teaching us how to use it."
"The product was difficult to back up the first time."
"Some of the terminology can be confusing, even for seasoned vets. Renaming components at this point would be a serious undertaking. However, it might be beneficial in the long run."
"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."
"I would like to see an updated dashboard. The dashboard is a little out-of-date. It could be made prettier."
"Splunk does not build apps. They only go back and validate the apps that somebody has already built. They should have remote consulting support. They have a wonderful solution. They have 24/7 security. Nobody needs to depend on any third party and will therefore just buy Splunk on the cloud."
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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