We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We deployed the solution from new and completed the upgrades."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"The initial setup is easy."
"SolarWinds NPM provides an overview of network monitoring, extending its capabilities to cover other aspects, such as virtual machines and servers. The platform has features like NetPath, which is particularly beneficial for end-users, offering insights into issues like latency, packet loss, and connectivity problems with routers, switches, or servers."
"What I really like is that even if you have already collected the data, you can extract fields and can build searches."
"It helps streamline troubleshooting and log analysis."
"Splunk's visualizations make it easy for users to understand the data."
"It helps us uncover bottlenecks in the network."
"The ability to digest any information and then correlate it in accordance with what you need is valuable. The ability to connect to pretty much everything and bring the information in the same format is also valuable. On top of that, we can use their language in order to create and customize the dashboards, correlations, or analytics that we want to incorporate."
"It has virtual visualization, and other products do not."
"Splunk is extremely flexible, which allows us to create custom visualizations along with other customizations."
"To get visibility from your network devices, servers, and security devices is a great feature."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution's customer service is not very good because the support takes too long."
"The improvement would be that SolarWinds NPM thoroughly checks its patches before releasing them to the market. Better testing, alpha testing, and then releasing it to the market."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"We also had to be attentive to vulnerabilities, because SolarWinds NPM have some issues in that area. We had to work with our security team, so that they could help us check and backup the data, and check what they needed to secure."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"On-premises scaling of the solution is a bit more limited than it is on the cloud."
"I'd like to see more integration with more antivirus systems."
"If it could be made available as a service, this would be much better than as a product."
"It needs more formatting control without having to be an admin."
"My biggest struggle with Splunk in general is memorizing all the commands. If I want to know which users have logged in between certain hours, I cannot write that query out. It would be helpful to have AI so that I can explain in simple terms what I want and then the search gives that back to me. I am waiting for that."
"The product is relatively expensive."
"The glass table feature does not perform as expected."
"From the commercial point of view, they have to bring down their costs."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". 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 NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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