We performed a comparison between SolarWinds AppOptics 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 product has a great dashboard."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Splunk is quite flexible for our customers. Splunk does not filter from a specific lock, you can define it later."
"Splunk has give us the capability to easily track problems and their status."
"The product is good, it satisfies our customers."
"Splunk allows us to customize processing and dashboards, which helps us take care of our customers' needs."
"Splunk setup is easy and straightforward. "
"Splunk Enterprise Security comes with 300 pre-deployed use cases that can be easily customized to meet the specific needs of our organization, without the need to purchase additional tools."
"The search lookups are useful."
"It has a big user base, so the community is useful."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"The product must improve insider threat detection."
"The difficult part is related to integration with sources of data that are used to create the logs as this depends on the infrastructure of the client."
"The GUI can be improved. Splunk has always suffered from having a kind of goofy UI, it needs some updating."
"The implementation and the scanning of the logs can be difficult."
"A lot of people are averse to using new tools so if they make it even more user-friendly than it already is, I think that could go a long way."
"It's costly."
"The user experience could be improved."
"I think the tech support response time could be a bit better. Sometimes I need to wait more than 24 hours for a response to my tickets."
SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 43rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 251 reviews. SolarWinds AppOptics is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". 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 ". SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Datadog and New Relic, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our SolarWinds AppOptics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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