We performed a comparison between Prometheus 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."The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"It lets me proactively identify and resolve system issues. This, in terms of, most of the time, really reduces downtime. Because when there are notifications on time when we engage it quickly on time, our downtime is highly reduced. So basically, Prometheus is for monitoring and alerting."
"The metrics and trends that Splunk Enterprise Security generates using all the data points we send allow customers to understand better what their users are doing."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the dashboard. It's very intuitive."
"Splunk can extract all kinds of data. There's no limitation on what kind of structured and unstructured data one needs to extract — it can access any kind of data, including machine-generated data."
"Easy to deploy and simple to use."
"Integrity with many vendors: This simplifies the implementation and integration with different devices"
"Without Splunk Enterprise Security, it would be difficult for us to manage and prioritize alerts. There's a potential to lose track of important notifications, and it's essential to our security that we do not miss anything. Splunk has improved our investigations because the reporting and dashboarding make things so much easier. We can provide weekly or monthly reports. I also like Splunk's ability to integrate."
"We can present to our management in real time the security of the batch management for the PCs, security regarding the network equipment. We're currently working in the Azure Cloud project, so we can send any logs from the cloud to Splunk. We can monitor them and we can present to the managers and customers. It's a very good solution for reporting. We use Splunk for reporting and monitoring of any solution in the company."
"Ease of correlation, creating correlation searches are easy and you can combine multiple sources with little effort"
"There isn’t much clarity regarding the issues that happen at the server end. It is a push model and from the client’s point of view, it needs to look better and solve remote issues."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Its stability could be even better."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"Splunk Enterprise Security should provide a better and richer integration."
"A problem that we had recently had was we licensed it based on how much data you upload to them every day. Something changed in one our applications, and it started generating three to four times as many logs and. So now, we are trying to assemble something with parts of the Splunk API to warn ourselves, then turn it off and throttle it back more. However it would be better if they had something systematically built into the product that if you're getting close to your license, then to shut things down."
"The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"Considering the contract thing and the whole legal area, it takes forever to get the contracts signed and to be able to agree to the terms and conditions for my company as well as for Splunk's team."
"Splunk has a steeper learning curve, making it feel less user-friendly."
"We'd like Splunk to reduce false positives."
"Licensing costs can be a barrier for those with limited budgets."
"The product was difficult to back up the first time."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 244 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". 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 ". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Honeycomb.io, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Prometheus vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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