We performed a comparison between SolarWinds AppOptics 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."I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"I like the ease with which dashboards can be created."
"We can automatically suspend or terminate suspicious sessions."
"The reporting aspect is good and it does what I need it to do."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it helps with our use cases to detect anomalies in our data and it is important to my company since we have a lot of data on different logs on the systems."
"It helps streamline troubleshooting and log analysis."
"The ability to quickly search logs, performance data, and other inputs has helped tremendously with troubleshooting."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its data modeling."
"I like Splunk's data aggregation and search capabilities."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"While Splunk Enterprise Security offers valuable features, its cost is high and could be more competitive."
"It would be nice if they had a wizard to construct searches, including more complex searches that include math or statistics."
"The documentation is in definite need of improvement."
"The solution could improve by making it more business analysis oriented. The way it is now is designed more for developers."
"One issue is that we are getting a lot of false positives. We are trying to reduce them by customizing the default rules, changing thresholds, and using white-listing and black-listing. It's getting better and better as a result. But they need to build components that would reduce the false positives."
"I would like some additional AI capabilities to provide additional information about things going wrong and things going well."
"AngularJS/ReactJS inclusion could be made easier in GUI."
"I find that the learning curve for Splunk is relatively lengthy."
SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 43rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 246 reviews. SolarWinds AppOptics is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". 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 AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Datadog and New Relic, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our SolarWinds AppOptics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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