We performed a comparison between OpenText SiteScope 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 SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring."
"The product's ability to monitor systems and applications and send alerts and create support tickets are the most valuable features of the product."
"It's easy to template standard monitoring configurations, and automate monitoring configuration."
"It's a very flexible product so you can run a script out of it, even straight out of the box."
"VM monitoring is pretty good showing good visualizations of how VMs are operating within the context of all the VMs running on the same hypervisor."
"Simplest tool for monitoring servers, web content, databases and other hardware. Its dashboard is really good."
"SiteScope has built-in flat file DB, hence it removes the dependency of an external DB for higher stability."
"There's no agent you need installed on the servers. In our environment, we have some servers out of our control so we cannot manage them. We use SiteScope to monitor the availability, the resources on the servers, etc. This allows us to do this job without installing agents so there's no need to take care of anything on the server."
"Splunk gives my clients the ability to bring multiple, disparate types of data together, then correlate and report on them."
"We primarily use it to correlate logs throughout the enterprise for both searching and use in investigations."
"We have found all the features useful. However, the dashboarding and logging have been very helpful. Additionally, the log analysis does a great job."
"Deployment server for deploying changes in one go."
"The flexibility of the solution is quite good."
"The most valuable features for us include its robust log management capabilities, which allow us to efficiently handle and retain logs for extended periods as needed."
"The visibility is amazing with easy dashboard creation."
"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'd like a uniform interface for monitoring our system, since that's the purpose of SiteScope."
"Direct integration with an SMS gateway for sending critical alerts to the support SME. This will help customer investing in third party middleware solutions for SMS."
"You can use OpenText SiteScope for small or middle environments. But if you want to monitor a large environment, it is not scalable. If you can monitor a large environment with OpenText SiteScope, it can be a valuable product."
"More out of the box Cloud integration and capabilities."
"In terms of issues with Micro Focus SiteScope, some that we've run into were unintended, for example, extra executions of monitors and some false alerts when there were problems connecting to endpoints or there were issues with the application that sometimes resulted in false positives. We had a few issues with the way time zones were configured when the system time differed from the time indicated during the monitoring, but those were just little things that weren't too bad. As far as the limitations of Micro Focus SiteScope, the types of scripting files that can be executed are rather limited unless you go to some third-party plugins. These are the areas for improvement in the solution."
"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."
"They should provide more templates for new vendor devices."
"Sometimes in a huge environment, I think the documentation does not provide the required calculations so you can't know what the required set up should be. You need to test."
"Splunk Enterprise Security can provide more details and help CISOs resolve vulnerability situations better. The reason is that the tools we choose for data analysis and log collection cannot collect all the data and logs. Splunk Enterprise Security should help me with this, but it cannot."
"We will receive alerts only for the administrators and deployment servers, but not for all servers."
"The solution could improve by giving more email details."
"They should make data onboarding easier."
"The complexity could be worked on so that it's even easier and faster."
"I would like additional features in different programming models with the support for writing queries in SQL or other languages, such as C#, Java, or some other type of query definitions."
"AngularJS/ReactJS inclusion could be made easier in GUI."
"We would like more integrations with other cloud products, not just AWS, e.g., Azure."
OpenText SiteScope is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 246 reviews. OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of OpenText SiteScope writes "Doesn't require much custom coding and can run on different platforms, but the types of scripting files you can execute on it are limited". 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 ". OpenText SiteScope is most compared with SCOM, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our OpenText SiteScope vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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