We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Pingdom and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"The log aggregation is great."
"The ability to manipulate data in Splunk is unparalleled. Splunk’s powerful, flexible query language can morph difficult to understand log formats into usable data."
"Speeds up root cause analysis and can help identify issues that your organization never realized were occurring."
"It helped us consolidate all our solutions into an easy tool to use for various employees."
"Our clients are easily able to modify and evolve their implementations."
"We have found all the features useful. However, the dashboarding and logging have been very helpful. Additionally, the log analysis does a great job."
"The most valuable features include agility and Splunk Enterprise Security's ability to quickly search for alerted items, as well as the capacity to create custom alerts using the SQL language employed by Splunk."
"It's extremely scalable. It's a very robust solution and certainly has the capability of handling far bigger data requirements than a lot of the other tools. Generally what ends up happening with me is that my clients tend, for the most part, to be mid-tier organizations where the cost of that solutions would be accompanying requirements for people just becomes way too prohibitive. Especially considering the model that they use for costing, which is based on the volume of data. Of course, they're going to put everything including the Coke machine as the ability to collect data off of it, because of course the more they can put through the tool the more money they make."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Certain sections of the developer documentation could use some updating and clarification."
"We'd like to have the number of devices covered under the license to be increased."
"It needs integration with a configuration management solution."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"Many of my clients want to get better at Splunk, but they're afraid of using the tool because they feel it's too complex for them."
"Its interface and usability can always be improved."
"The setup time is quite long."
"If possible, we would like to have not only a log monitoring system but a network monitoring feature in this solution as well."
SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 49th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". 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 Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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