We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"It is simple to implement and can provide fairly decent Windows-based monitoring, beyond simple SNMP. It is great for monitoring newbies and smaller shops."
"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."
"The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value."
"I adore the NTA module that provides deep details on ingress/egress traffic for any interface. With a few clicks, you can correlate who is accessing what and when, beside the bandwidth consuming applications/users."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards are a key asset."
"Capability to expand the functionality through custom code for data inputs, commands, visualization, alerts, and machine learning."
"Splunk allows us to customize processing and dashboards, which helps us take care of our customers' needs."
"You can integrate Splunk with third-party security automation solutions and set rules for automatic response."
"Splunk has machine learning which is a valuable feature."
"Splunk works based on parsing log files."
"The correlation searches are most valuable just because we are able to do things like RBA."
"The breadth of the data sources that Splunk can ingest data from is broad and deep and it does an exemplary job at handling structured data."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
"The tool's AppStack needs to improve in the storage monitoring part. It should also include an analytics and recommendation approach. If I have found a fault in a server or application, I would like to know what caused it and how do I recover from it."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc."
"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"It does not give us permission to implement on-premise so we implement them on the cloud."
"Make it easy to use and the cost cheaper. This will help all organisations to implement Splunk."
"I love the solution, but I would like to see more accessibility to the machine-learning capabilities that are sprinkled around Splunk."
"The glass table feature does not perform as expected."
"Splunk ES could have more pre-built integrations and rules. The detection is fairly accurate, but it depends on the rules you create. Splunk's out-of-the-box configuration isn't that useful."
"Integrating tools and creating use cases could be easier. It's hard for a junior security engineer with only a couple of years of experience to write use cases. They can do it, but it's much easier in a solution like IBM QRadar. Setting conditions is like a multiple-choice type of thing. It's a more user-friendly process."
"The GUI can be improved. Splunk has always suffered from having a kind of goofy UI, it needs some updating."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
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SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 10th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". 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 ". SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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