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 valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"It has good stability."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The solution has good features."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The SIEM is the most valuable feature of the product."
"The varied prebuilt feature is the most valuable because it ensures that we have complete coverage over all of the key questions."
"We did not encounter any issues with scalability. It is almost seamless to add new index (storage) or search (used to analyze the data) nodes to the cluster."
"Integration with the cloud is pretty important and good for us. We found the integration with a lot of tools, not all tools yet, valuable. It does make the transfer of data, log files, and other things easier for us."
"Splunk incorporates a lot of elements that help to reduce security risks. For it to reach certain compliance, we need to have some security insight. Splunk is a very good SIEM, it’s a top solution, but the best feature is its cost of visibility. We have all the most important features to detect vulnerabilities or risks."
"It has quite extensive support in terms of integration. If you want to do anything, there are tools for that."
"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."
"It is the best tool if you have a complex environment or if data ingestion is too huge."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"It needs more formatting control without having to be an admin."
"There are a lot of competitive products that are doing better than what Splunk is doing on the analytics side."
"The prices are complicated as we operate in a small third-world country."
"Better directions on search head clusters."
"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."
"The implementation and the scanning of the logs can be difficult."
"Its pricing model and integration with third-party services can be improved. We had faced an issue with integration. The alerting feature is currently not available with Splunk, but it is definitely available with Datadog and PagerDuty. They should include this feature. A few dashboards in Splunk look quite old and are not that modern. They aren't bad, but improving these dashboards will definitely make Splunk more attractive and usable. I read in a few blog posts that there were a few security incidents related to Splunk agents. So, it can be made more secure."
"We usually have to follow up with technical support on our open cases."
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 246 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, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Grafana vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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