We performed a comparison between Akamai mPulse 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 is the solutions overall performance. It is very efficient and accurate for our usage."
"Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great."
"Splunk is extremely flexible, which allows us to create custom visualizations along with other customizations."
"Good for log collection and log management."
"I have not seen any outages in the product in the past two years that it has been running in our company, so I think it is good when it comes to the stability part."
"It's better than IBM, in my opinion, because it's an independent entity."
"Splunk Enterprise Security comes with 300 pre-deployed use cases that can be easily customized to meet the specific needs of our organization, without the need to purchase additional tools."
"Three features stand out for me: the SDK for writing Python, the customizable and adaptable diagnostic dashboard, and the optimizer for collecting data."
"It gives me notifications of notable events."
"It follows MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain frameworks. There are certain notable events for which we can configure our security posture."
"In the next release, I would like to see the possibility of sharing the metric from this solution with other solutions."
"The end-to-end distributor tracing connectivity isn't there."
"The prices are complicated as we operate in a small third-world country."
"While scheduled reports can be embedded, Splunk dashboard can not be embedded directly without enabling cross origin."
"We'd like Splunk to reduce false positives."
"Although the technical support is adequate, there is still room for improvement."
"Splunk can improve its third-party device application plugins."
"There are a lot of competitive products that are doing better than what Splunk is doing on the analytics side."
"Many of my clients want to get better at Splunk, but they're afraid of using the tool because they feel it's too complex for them."
"There are new services which are coming up. If Splunk can catch up with the speed of Amazon, and with the integration, instead of us waiting for another year or so, that would be good."
Akamai mPulse is ranked 53rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. Akamai mPulse is rated 6.6, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Akamai mPulse writes "Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within". 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 ". Akamai mPulse is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, Datadog and AppDynamics, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Akamai mPulse vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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