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."It is a stable solution."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"It provides a risk score for each object, device, or user. We can then take action if they are at a higher risk."
"It is very easy to use and integrate. There are connectors for every technology."
"The logs on the solution are excellent."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards are a key asset."
"We can do things in minutes instead of days."
"Splunk helps us be more proactive. We can take predictive action to identify and block threats so that nothing harmful gets into the system."
"We can easily configure things as required in relation to our use cases."
"The speed of the search engine"
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"Professional support is great, but too expensive."
"While Splunk offers SOAR as a separate product, integrating it into the next version of Splunk Enterprise Security as a unified solution would be beneficial."
"The solution has a high learning curve for users. It's a little complicated when you're trying to figure out all the features and what they do."
"The complexity could be worked on so that it's even easier and faster."
"The setup time is quite long."
"While scheduled reports can be embedded, Splunk dashboard can not be embedded directly without enabling cross origin."
"Splunk can improve its third-party device application plugins."
"Splunk's ability to analyze malicious activities scores an 8 out of 10, but there's room for improvement. By analyzing emerging patterns, Splunk could identify and predict potential threats more effectively."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 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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