We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The features I've found the most useful are the plug-ins, the fact that you can connect almost everything to it. That's very useful."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"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 helps streamline troubleshooting and log analysis."
"The SIEM is the most valuable feature of the product."
"In the past we used the different application to collect logs. We used SurfWatch and VMware to do so. But, we found that the Splunk has more capacity to do more in less time. They provide a aster speed to index all the events , and this is a huge asset."
"Its usability is the best part. It is easy for our developers to use if they want to search their logs, etc."
"Splunk's visualizations make it easy for users to understand the data."
"Speeds up root cause analysis and can help identify issues that your organization never realized were occurring."
"The initial setup is simple, not very complex. Initial deployment takes around 10 to 15 minutes to set up the entire base for Splunk including all three tiers."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more."
"I would like a much easier GUI so that I can delete events and logs, which will free up a lot of space."
"It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."
"The PNP4Nagios plugin not working easily with XI is an issue for me, because some open source monitoring plugins do not work out of the box. But in the end, you learn to live with it."
"Nagios XI can improve network and hardware monitoring, these parameters should be simplified to allow usage for monitoring. Additionally, if there was automatic reporting it would be helpful."
"The presence of multiple layers creates a significant challenge for monitoring across cloud environments."
"The user access control could be much more granular, so that the admins can control r/w/x access for specific features of the product like dashboards, etc."
"It is a challenge to manage the environment in such a way, that one’s log, even with the bandwidth license, isn’t exceeded."
"It needs integration with a configuration management solution."
"If it could be made available as a service, this would be much better than as a product."
"The UI can be difficult to understand for non-technical people."
"I would like some additional AI capabilities to provide additional information about things going wrong and things going well."
"It can be tough to determine if you are getting all of the value out of your investment at times."
Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 246 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". 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 ". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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