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."Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"It has good stability."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"It is a stable solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The correlation capabilities are the first value that our clients say they like with Splunk."
"Ease of correlation, creating correlation searches are easy and you can combine multiple sources with little effort"
"We have found all the features useful. However, the dashboarding and logging have been very helpful. Additionally, the log analysis does a great job."
"UBA, User Behavior Analytics, is a key feature."
"The fact that Splunk is a platform and not just a SIEM solution is a key benefit."
"The graph visualization is the most valuable feature."
"The search function for spam is like a google search. You just enter and it will quickly show you the results."
"To get visibility from your network devices, servers, and security devices is a great feature."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The solution should include online support."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"It is a good product, but the Achilles heel for a lot of organizations is the cost model for it because it gets expensive. That's because the model is based on how much data it processes a day, which can be prohibitive, especially if you have a lot of data. A lot of customers may not be ready for the sticker shock on how to fully leverage the product. I realized that the reason for that is that when it was originally designed, it was kind of like a big data modeling application. If they want to have a bigger customer base, they can come out with subsets of their product that are focused on specific things and have different pricing models. It may help with the cost."
"It needs more thoroughly tested releases. Every new big version (6, 7, etc.) has had so many bugs that it makes me wary of customers upgrading right away."
"The Web Application Firewall will send you too much information because it's more dedicated to security than a normal firewall."
"The product was designed for security and IT with business intelligence needs, such as PDF exporting, but this has not been the highest priority. While the functionality is there, it could be developed more."
"I feel as though a major focus of upcoming releases should be set on Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, and I would enjoy to see more security focused add-ons and apps developed by the vendor."
"Certain sections of the developer documentation could use some updating and clarification."
"Delays in responses from the technical team can pose challenges for both vendors and clients, especially considering that Splunk applications and machine solutions are critical assets."
"The support that is included with the standard licensing fee is very bad."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 230 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, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Grafana vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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