We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) 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 multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"It's easy to use."
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"The dashboard and reporting are very good... It provides very good visibility in a hybrid cloud environment, and you can build custom utilization APIs using Splunk."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is able to process a huge amount of data without any issues."
"Splunk gives my clients the ability to bring multiple, disparate types of data together, then correlate and report on them."
"The dashboard is amazing. Out-of-the-box dashboard is very good. It is very user-friendly."
"There are quite a lot of things that we find useful. Splunk agents are useful and good. Its UI is quite impressive."
"I really like the user interface and how it works."
"The product has a good security posture."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the dashboard, which allows us to see everything on the same page and provides easy visibility into problems."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"It could be even more automated."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
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"Splunk's implementation process for managing multiple indexes can be complex, especially when dealing with a large number of components."
"Splunk should have more regional data centers in the Middle East."
"We'd like Splunk to reduce false positives."
"This is a costly solution."
"We'd like to have the number of devices covered under the license to be increased."
"Enterprise security: Splunk must work on clarifying the solution to customers and explain how to gain more from it."
"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."
"We find that the maintenance process could be a lot better."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 26th in Log Management with 10 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 246 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". 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 ". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Sentry, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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