We performed a comparison between Splunk Enterprise Security and VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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."If I need to integrate devices for logs, it is easier with Splunk. We can integrate different applications, network devices, and databases. It is also very rich in documents. It is the best."
"Splunk's visualizations make it easy for users to understand the data."
"The scalability is good."
"Capability to expand the functionality through custom code for data inputs, commands, visualization, alerts, and machine learning."
"The Splunk user community and forum are most valuable."
"It's better than IBM, in my opinion, because it's an independent entity."
"Integration with the cloud is pretty important and good for us. We found the integration with a lot of tools, not all tools yet, valuable. It does make the transfer of data, log files, and other things easier for us."
"The consolidated overview of all the events that come in through our environment and an easy-to-access interface for all our end users are valuable."
"Our current costs are too high, and this tool will help us to better optimize our infrastructure."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"The solution's simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility are valuable features as we can integrate everything in vRealize."
"The setup and installation are very easy."
"It is a very useful tool if you have a VMware environment."
"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"It is very scalable and can handle a large workload."
"We had an instance when Splunk failed and it took us a couple of days to recover."
"Its user interface for everything other than the charts can be improved. Some parts of it can be simplified a bit, such as when importing documents that have the network traffic. When you're going through the information about the network traffic, you have to have the expertise, but even if a program is supposed to be for IT support, it is good to make it user-friendly because it gets easier to train people. When something goes wrong, the more difficult a program is in terms of UI, the harder it is to fix the issue."
"Delays in responses from the technical team can pose challenges for both vendors and clients, especially considering that Splunk applications and machine solutions are critical assets."
"The GUI can be improved to include some of the capabilities that other BI solutions have."
"Better directions on search head clusters."
"I would like Splunk to add more integration. QRadar has many indications with more products than Splunk."
"I'd like to see more integration with more antivirus systems."
"The threat detection system has room for improvement."
"In the VMware environment, one area for improvement is the handling of VM failovers due to host failures, such as unexpected shutdowns from hardware issues. Currently, High Availability (HA) doesn't seem to recognize whether the VMs are online during failover, treating them as offline or unavailable."
"The monitoring landscape is getting bigger. When it comes to infrastructure monitoring, we need more visibility. VMware needs to integrate more related applications and third-party products. That would make it more appealing to an audience beyond the VMware team."
"Integration with other vendors is something that could be improved, they could add more vendors."
"The solution isn't user-friendly for admins."
"Log Insight should be better at dealing with audits and security logs. We use another product called QRadar for that."
"From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made more user-friendly."
"I would like to see more tutorials or at least an introduction video from the supplier, so you can become proficient and get the most out of the solution. You might not get the full benefit from a logging or reporting solution because you might not have a particular tool enabled. You could leave something out of your analysis because you aren't aware of it or you don't know how to set it up."
"I don't use the solution on a day to day basis, so I'm not sure what specifically can be improved."
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Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 240 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. 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 ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and IBM Security QRadar. See our Splunk Enterprise Security vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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