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."
"There are a lot of options for customization of the dashboard, alerts, and reports."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerts."
"A product that is well-tested and trusted in demanding situations."
"Monitoring capabilities are at a high level and it is easy to see utilization, access ports, and CPU memory in real time or through a lens for long-term visualization."
"Technical support has always been great. They are very responsive. We've been satisfied with their level of support."
"The biggest thing for me is that it provided enough information for me to monitor. It alerts and provides you with the information you need."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"Splunk gives my clients the ability to bring multiple, disparate types of data together, then correlate and report on them."
"We primarily use it to correlate logs throughout the enterprise for both searching and use in investigations."
"The ability to manage large amounts of generated data and to protect all devices from unauthorized use are the most valuable features."
"It is quite extensible. It is a platform that we can build our use instead of each case instead of each case being limited or restricted to each capability. This is probably the best feature."
"The solution allows easy gathering and ingestion of the data."
"The data representation options in the dashboards are excellent."
"What I really like is that even if you have already collected the data, you can extract fields and can build searches."
"It has helped us look at modern technology, as well as penetrate our legacy systems, to see where the bottlenecks are."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"The root cause analysis and installation faults are not clear."
"It is difficult for stakeholders to translate technical requirements, which results in difficulties selecting a platform or implementing a solution."
"Technical support can be slow to respond."
"An area for improvement would be the use of modular licenses, which are not practical for big clients."
"We'd like to see a bit more automation in the future."
"Application Performance Monitoring should be included in this solution."
"It takes time to train people."
"The search could be improved. Now, it is a bit difficult to write search queries because they become quite long, then maintaining those long search queries is a quite challenging."
"I think the machine learning should be emphasized. Now, it's really important to analyze Big Data, data mining. A SIEM solution, like Splunk, needs an improved data mining solution, artificial intelligence."
"Splunk is more expensive than other solutions."
"I think the tech support response time could be a bit better. Sometimes I need to wait more than 24 hours for a response to my tickets."
"The UI can be difficult to understand for non-technical people."
"An area of improvement would be the licensing of the solution. They need a free license, which would allow faster lead times."
"I feel the solution to be too slow."
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 230 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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