We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Splunk Enterprise Security 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."The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
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"Splunk is stable, and this is why many customers want it."
"Compared to IBM QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security offers faster alert resolution."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the dashboard, which allows us to see everything on the same page and provides easy visibility into problems."
"It is easy to use in any environment."
"It allows us to digest the information, the data, the different data streams, so we can make decisions based upon information that we receive, and it is pretty robust."
"Splunk gives my clients the ability to bring multiple, disparate types of data together, then correlate and report on them."
"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."
"Great platform with user-friendly interface and GUI."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It could be even more automated."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"It could be more stable."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
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"It requires a significant amount of relatively complex architecture once you push past the single server instance."
"There is a definite learning curve to starting out."
"Splunk is not very user-friendly. It has a complex architecture in comparison to other solutions on the market."
"The historical data extraction needs improvement. I would like the capability of taking data and having it trend longer."
"Splunk could add more ways to manage archiving and storage. There isn't a web interface. You can do this on the SaaS version, but the on-premise platform doesn't have this option. It has other things but no option for remote NAS. I would like to have a personal web interface where I can specify how long logs should be stored. To have this readily available on the web, you need to adjust some settings on the backend. That is tricky."
"Splunk ES could have more pre-built integrations and rules. The detection is fairly accurate, but it depends on the rules you create. Splunk's out-of-the-box configuration isn't that useful."
"I would like to see ability to master management. In terms of clustering, how it manages clustering needs improvement."
"It does not give us permission to implement on-premise so we implement them on the cloud."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 25th in Log Management with 10 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 251 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". 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 ". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Sentry, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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