We performed a comparison between Splunk and Zabbix based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In this comparison, Zabbix comes out on top. When compared to Splunk, it is easier to deploy and is open-source.
"We have found all the features useful. However, the dashboarding and logging have been very helpful. Additionally, the log analysis does a great job."
"There are a lot of third-party applications that can be installed."
"The most valuable features for us include its robust log management capabilities, which allow us to efficiently handle and retain logs for extended periods as needed."
"Aggregation searches have reduced time and difficulty of identifying trends and conditions which need to reviewed."
"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."
"Integrity with many vendors: This simplifies the implementation and integration with different devices"
"The ability to analyze huge amounts of sales data and accurate prediction of sales forecasting is the most valuable feature."
"The additional vendors we've brought on board, particularly the elastic, have been quite beneficial."
"The implementation process is very straightforward."
"I'm supervising all the IT departments, and Zabbix seems quite good for them. It provides graphics and information in real time. We get alerts about crashes on the system, enabling us to quickly repair issues. We can easily find devices with problems."
"The most valuable feature is monitoring."
"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"The solution is stable."
"It requires a significant amount of relatively complex architecture once you push past the single server instance."
"Splunk should have more regional data centers in the Middle East."
"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."
"The support and the pricing can be better"
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
"The prices are complicated as we operate in a small third-world country."
"Splunk does not build apps. They only go back and validate the apps that somebody has already built. They should have remote consulting support. They have a wonderful solution. They have 24/7 security. Nobody needs to depend on any third party and will therefore just buy Splunk on the cloud."
"Given the ever-increasing number of threats, I would like Splunk to update its threat signatures more frequently."
"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."
"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
"The performance reporting could be improved."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. 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 ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and ArcSight Logger, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and ManageEngine OpManager.
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