We compared Splunk Enterprise Security and LogPoint across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Splunk Enterprise Security stands out for its efficiency, extensive integration options, and powerful search functionality. Users say Splunk is a highly scalable and customizable solution. LogPoint is noted for its advanced technology and extensive log-collection, parsing, and analysis mechanisms.
Room for Improvement: Splunk users recommended improvements in AI capabilities, user-friendliness, and analytics. LogPoint can improve its dashboard customization, resource efficiency, network hierarchy diagrams, and agent deployment.
Service and Support: While some users found Splunk support to be responsive and helpful, others reported slow response times and a lack of expertise. LogPoint's customer service receives high marks for its exceptional technical support and responsive engineers, but some users reported delays in receiving help from higher-level support.
Ease of Deployment: Some users thought Splunk Enterprise Security was easy to deploy, while others found it challenging and needed assistance from Splunk engineers or third-party integrators. The complexity of LogPoint's initial setup can range from complex and time-consuming to fast and easy, depending on the user's experience and the organization’s size.
Pricing: Some users consider Splunk Enterprise Security to be expensive, but others said the price is reasonable. A few users expressed concerns about the cost of scaling up the solution and managing large volumes of data. LogPoint's fixed pricing model is seen as cost-effective and competitive.
ROI: Users said that it’s challenging to calculate an ROI for Splunk Enterprise Security, and the return varies depending on individual circumstances. While some users have observed a substantial ROI, others have not actively explored or been engaged in ROI conversations. Logpoint makes costs more predictable and enables companies to generate revenue through security operation services.
Comparison Results: Splunk is highly regarded for its efficient data processing and powerful search capabilities. Users like Splunk's customization options and ability to process data from multiple sources quickly, but reviewers say it could be more intuitive and offer advanced AI capabilities. Logpoint excels at log collection and analysis but would benefit from improvements in its user interface and resource usage.
"The scalability is great. You can put unlimited logs in, as long as you can pay for it. There are commitment tiers, up to six terabytes per day, which is nowhere close to what any one of our customers is running."
"The Log analytics are useful."
"The log analysis is excellent; it can predict what can or will happen regarding use patterns and vulnerabilities."
"I like the ability to run custom KQL queries. I don't know if that feature is specific to Sentinel. As far as I know, they are using technology built into Azure's Log Analytics app. Sentinel integrates with that, and we use this functionality heavily."
"We’ve got process improvement that's happened across multiple different fronts within the organization, within our IT organization based on this tool being in place."
"It is always correlating to IOCs for normal attacks, using Azure-related resources. For example, if any illegitimate IP starts unusual activity on our Azure firewall, then it automatically generates an alarm for us."
"The dashboard that allows me to view all the incidents is the most valuable feature."
"It's pretty powerful and its performance is pretty good."
"The most beneficial was being able to prove, with proper reports, that from a compliance perspective, the company is in control. The service part of LogPoint did modifications or did some additional work to have the proper reports defined."
"We like the user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA) and find it valuable."
"They basically charge you in a better way."
"The solution's user interface is quite simple, and the integration is better than other products."
"The main advantage of Logpoint is the support service. They reply within ten minutes to an hour to our queries."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the combination of the software and the support that they have."
"It is an AI technology because it is using machine learning technology. So far, there is nothing better out there for UEBA in terms of monitoring endpoints and user activity. It is using machine learning language, so it is right at the top. It provides that capability and monitors all the activities. It devises a baseline and monitors if there is any deviation from the baseline."
"It is a very comprehensive solution for gathering data. It has got a lot of capabilities for collecting logs from different systems. Logs are notoriously difficult to collect because they come in all formats. LogPoint has a very sophisticated mechanism for you to be able to connect to or listen to a system, get the data, and parse it. Logs come in text formats that are not easily parseable because all logs are not the same, but with LogPoint, you can define a policy for collecting the data. You can create a parser very quickly to get the logs into a structured mechanism so that you can analyze them."
"It has the ability to correlate data, analyze and review it."
"Splunk's advantage is its search capability. Its search is notably faster. With Splunk, I can search easily on keywords. That is great."
"The scalability of the solution is amazing because it can collect a lot of data and you can have your own structure to monitor this data."
"The security part is useful as it helps secure the entire environment."
"The initial setup is simple, not very complex. Initial deployment takes around 10 to 15 minutes to set up the entire base for Splunk including all three tiers."
"Search language is easy to understand and teach to new users."
"It has virtual visualization, and other products do not."
"Splunk has facilitated the correlation of information security logs to look for incidents which could cause damage to the company's infrastructure, as well as financial losses from leaks."
"Microsoft Sentinel should provide an alternative query language to KQL for users who lack KQL expertise."
"I would like to be able to monitor applications outside of the Azure Cloud."
"I would like to see more AI used in processes."
"The solution could improve the playbooks."
"There is some relatively advanced knowledge that you have to have to properly leverage Sentinel's full capabilities. I'm thinking about things like the creation of workbooks, how you do threat-hunting, and the kinds of notifications you're getting... It takes time for people to ramp up on that and develop a familiarity or expertise with it."
"We've seen delays in getting the logs from third-party solutions and sometimes Microsoft products as well. It would be helpful if Microsoft created a list of the delays. That would make things more transparent for customers."
"They're giving us the queries so we can plug them right into Sentinel. They need to have a streamlined process for updating them in the tool and knowing when things are updated and knowing when there are new detections available from Microsoft."
"The following would be a challenge for any product in the market, but we have some in-house apps in our environment... our apps were built with different parameters and the APIs for them are not present in Sentinel. We are working with Microsoft to build those custom APIs that we require. That is currently in progress."
"What could be improved in LogPoint is its UI because it's less friendly to users than LogRhythm. The UI could be more aesthetically appealing to users. It's completely outdated."
"LogPoint must find a way to integrate the servers without agents."
"The general public wasn't looking for that type of product unless you had a company that was medical or financial and needed 24-hour responsiveness."
"Nowadays the trend is going towards the ransomware and the endpoint detection and response. So if they added something for that, that will be very, very good."
"In terms of functionality, it is very good. The only issue is the documentation. Its documentation should be improved."
"One of the things we faced last year was that we had some memory issues with the server running. We were running them as virtual services, and we were facing some performance issues. Back then, there were some things that had already been solved at the end, but one of the small issues we had was that it was quite memory-consuming. After one upgrade that we did, we faced some performance issues."
"We were missing visuals and graphics. Recently, a new version seems to have come out, and it has a new graphical user interface. When I was integrating it, it was usable, but the GUI needed improvement."
"It is complicated to collect daily logs from other systems."
"Splunk has a steeper learning curve, making it feel less user-friendly."
"Splunk is more expensive than other solutions."
"Make it easier to include roles and user controls, as it is horrible now."
"The CIM model is the method Splunk uses to normalize data and categorize its important parts, but it is quite complex."
"Its interface could be improved."
"Being a SIEM solution with a centralized dashboard, we would like to have more options to customize it."
"Integrating tools and creating use cases could be easier. It's hard for a junior security engineer with only a couple of years of experience to write use cases. They can do it, but it's much easier in a solution like IBM QRadar. Setting conditions is like a multiple-choice type of thing. It's a more user-friendly process."
"It needs a better way to export dynamic views without requiring a ton of code and user/pw."
Logpoint is ranked 29th in Log Management with 20 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 240 reviews. Logpoint is rated 7.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Logpoint writes "Good technical support but it is complex to use and resource-heavy". 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 ". Logpoint is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security, Rapid7 InsightIDR, Wazuh and SolarWinds Security Event Manager , whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Datadog. See our Logpoint vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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