We performed a comparison between Prometheus 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."Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"It follows MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain frameworks. There are certain notable events for which we can configure our security posture."
"The most valuable feature is that it's very good for log aggregation."
"Its dashboard is valuable. If you have a good knowledge of how to create a dashboard, you can create any dashboard related to cybersecurity. If fine-tuned, the alarms that are triggered for instant review are also very valuable and useful."
"There are lots of free learning materials on their website."
"The correlation searches are most valuable just because we are able to do things like RBA."
"Its integration is most valuable. Its UI is also pretty much easy."
"I really like the user interface and how it works."
"Good for log collection and log management."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"It needs integration with a configuration management solution."
"Professional support is great, but too expensive."
"The implementation and the scanning of the logs can be difficult."
"A lot of people are averse to using new tools so if they make it even more user-friendly than it already is, I think that could go a long way."
"It is important to make sure that everything is built off of the threat models and all the underlying items within Splunk."
"Adding custom visualization in Splunk has been improved over the years but can still be made better by integrating more and more JavaScript visualization sources."
"Although the technical support is adequate, there is still room for improvement."
"In terms of the interface, it could include some improvements for the look and feel."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". 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 ". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Honeycomb.io, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Prometheus vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
