We performed a comparison between Grafana Loki and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the capability to set up alerts, which becomes necessary when we need to receive notifications for specific events."
"We are using Grafana Loki as a database for real-time metrics."
"I appreciate the capability to process logs from microservices and seamlessly integrate them into Grafana."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the tool's GUI. The solution's GUI is very user-friendly."
"Loki also utilizes the same service discovery mechanism as used by Prometheus. So, whatever labeled metadata you see in Prometheus, you have the exact same metadata in the Loki system. Given this level of intricacy and the attempt to address these challenges, I firmly believe that Loki deserves praise for the work."
"The effectiveness of filters is pivotal for optimizing the search process and extracting the specific information we need from the extensive log data."
"The solution's stability has never been a problem. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana Loki is the dashboards which are really simple to create."
"The technical support has been very good. They are very responsive and have been helpful."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Splunk is."
"Splunk's advantage is its search capability. Its search is notably faster. With Splunk, I can search easily on keywords. That is great."
"The correlation search functions that generate all the notables are valuable. That can get pretty complicated, and it handles that pretty well."
"Positive features include replication capabilities, software development kits, and the architecture."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk is the log monitoring."
"The technical support is among the best in the market."
"We have a one stop dashboard for health of some of our services where you can click in and it takes you to other dashboards that have custom near real-time metrics that show the application's health."
"The solution's scalability depends on the team managing the Grafana instance."
"The product must improve its UI."
"Enhancing speed could be a game-changer, and while it might vary depending on the application, it's a factor worth exploring."
"The Docker container partition feature needs improvement as they do not reuse the space and goes into a pending state."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features that need improvement."
"Visualization-wise, Grafana Loki's dashboard looks a little outdated compared to other open-source visualization tools like Chronograf."
"We encountered certain limitations when it came to alerting, particularly when dealing with specific data sources."
"My main concern is the recommended production-grade setup. They suggest using tools like Tanka or Jsonnet. They should simplify the process to increase adoption."
"I would like some additional AI capabilities to provide additional information about things going wrong and things going well."
"Search head clustering is often temperamental in its current state and should be improved, replaced by something better, or be reverted to search head pooling."
"The presence of multiple layers creates a significant challenge for monitoring across cloud environments."
"We had some connections issues with the solution at the beginning."
"The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"Splunk could have more built-in use case presets that customers can build on and customize."
"Features related to content management must be improved."
"The support that is included with the standard licensing fee is very bad."
Grafana Loki is ranked 13th in Log Management with 12 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 235 reviews. Grafana Loki is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Grafana Loki writes "Effective for Logging, recovery from node failures is fast and single UI supports metrics, logs, and even tracing". 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 Loki is most compared with Graylog, Wazuh, syslog-ng, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Datadog, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Grafana Loki vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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