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."The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The solution has good features."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"Visualizations are the best way to understand deviation techniques from the norm."
"The ability to rapidly diagnose problems in production and non-production, across hundreds of log files, is the most valuable feature."
"Splunk's interface is user-friendly, and it has apps and add-ons for most applications. We can easily normalize the data to make it readable and understand the logs. We easily get all the field extractions and enrichment done by using the apps and add-ons. This helps us understand the application logs because the raw data is useless unless we extract some useful information from it. These add-ons make it so much easier."
"The connections to the database are very good and updating the data files is simple to do. The dashboards are useful and user-friendly."
"Splunk would be my choice for the presentation layer because it comes with inbuilt reports and a dashboard that you can customize."
"Splunk is stable, and this is why many customers want it."
"Splunk helps us be more proactive. We can take predictive action to identify and block threats so that nothing harmful gets into the system."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The GUI can be improved to include some of the capabilities that other BI solutions have."
"If you have to do your own stuff, such as customized charts, it is a little bit more work, but once you're familiar with the Splunk query language, you can pretty much do whatever you want. In terms of features, it should probably have the features that other competitors provide."
"Its setup is a little bit complex for a distributed environment. Their support can also be better. If we miss the response for more than a week, they usually close the case. Sometimes, it can take us more than a week to reply."
"Splunk needs to be able to hold more days of data. At the moment it only holds three months of data."
"The user access control could be much more granular, so that the admins can control r/w/x access for specific features of the product like dashboards, etc."
"The threat detection system has room for improvement."
"I would like to see more SIEM functionality and a better ticket tool."
"Sometimes the communication with support happens with multiple staff. They should reduce the time to resolution."
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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