We performed a comparison between IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The modules and the performance management reports that come with data insights are two of the most valuable features. I also find the reports for Wi-Fi, Netflow, LAN, and WAN for monitoring to be very good."
"In 90% of the cases, new devices are plug-and-play, so when a new version comes out then SevOne has support for it out of the box."
"One of the solution's biggest strengths is its capacity management performance, with out-of-the-box reports through NMS, as well as its ability to collect NetFlow-related data from devices. The collection of network performance and flow data is important because we have many critical business applications."
"SevOne provides support for all universal connectors. They internally work with other data sources to get features implemented. We have an SD-WAN implementation and use other app data to monitor performance. If you pull that data into one centralized location, that is very useful for management."
"It's given us the ability to create various real-time network performance reports and distribute them to any colleague who can access these reports immediately."
"The automation feature is good because if your CMDB is OK and it is already in sync, then the automation part is good to go."
"SevOne’s data collection functionality is very good. From a collection point of view, we pull SNMP data, which is simple. It is easy to manipulate the pull in the estate. It is really simple compared to some of the other products that we have used. However, for deferred data, i.e., things that we import or don't pull directly, we tend to have a preplanned integration. So, its Universal Collector is really useful."
"Data Insight reporting tool is the most valuable feature. They came up with it a couple of years ago. The most pleasing factor is the dark theme. You don't have a white background. It has templates that you can create for all kinds of reports that you can hit on the fly. It's much better printing of the reports. If you want to send PDFs to people, the reports are actually decent. Whereas for years, the old architecture of the PDFs was rubbish and even our customers said, "We have to manipulate your PDFs because they all have bad margin breaks. SevOne fixed that a couple of years ago with the new Data Insight. It's fantastic."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the data integration."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring gives us complete visibility without the need for storage."
"The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs."
"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."
"I find the monitoring console very helpful. With one click, I can see how we are performing, and at the same time, I can see what data is flowing."
"The product retains a lot of log data for subsequent analysis."
"The data collection from our VMs, containers, databases, and backend components is valuable."
"Splunk has drawn our attention to how the network is running. If there are alarms on things that are not functioning, it gives us early warning on problems that could arise."
"Software upgrades can be tricky is not easy."
"The method of searching for SIP and the way to create the groups."
"Some similar solutions offer end-to-end visibility."
"Would benefit with the addition of AI modules for proactive data insights."
"NMS has several areas for improvement. It should be more user-friendly inside of NMS for some of the functionality in there. It's been getting better the last version or two, but the there have been bugs in there whenever I've gone to new versions."
"You need to plan integrations. That has been the biggest bug with SevOne so far. For the things that SevOne pulls directly, those are easy to understand, modify, and put into the database. For things that need to use the Universal Collector or xStats, you need to plan that stuff well in advance."
"SevOne should work with the graphs legend functionality."
"There are a lot of pain points. My main problem is that we don't have a high availability system. There are 20 peers. We're going to lose the end-of-life appliances that are old. If we lose a peer and it doesn't come back, we lose all that data. The reason we don't have high availability is because it's double the charge."
"We have both on-prem and cloud, and the challenge is getting all our log data aggregated or streams aggregated so that it is real-time. We do a pretty good job of that, but our organization is not using it as a security platform when it can do a great job of that."
"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"There is a lot of room for improvement with the automation."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"They need more EDR functionalities."
"I would like to see an improvement and some innovation in the customer interface."
"This solution is difficult to configure and the instructions are complex."
"It's a bit difficult to use. It takes some time to get into it and to get it to do what you would like it to do. It is not straightforward to use it."
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IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is ranked 27th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 52 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 13th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 23 reviews. IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is rated 8.6, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) writes "We can get a new vendor certified and monitored in our system significantly faster than before". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is most compared with Instana Infrastructure Monitoring, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds Network Device Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Cisco Intersight, Amazon CloudWatch and ITRS Geneos. See our IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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