We performed a comparison between Akamai mPulse 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 the solutions overall performance. It is very efficient and accurate for our usage."
"Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great."
"It helps us uncover bottlenecks in the network."
"You can check up on security from the dashboards."
"The varied prebuilt feature is the most valuable because it ensures that we have complete coverage over all of the key questions."
"The ability to manipulate data in Splunk is unparalleled. Splunk’s powerful, flexible query language can morph difficult to understand log formats into usable data."
"Splunk is a user-friendly solution."
"We solve issues that we previously could not since we now have the data."
"Splunk is extremely flexible, which allows us to create custom visualizations along with other customizations."
"The initial setup is really straightforward. It's one of the easiest installations."
"In the next release, I would like to see the possibility of sharing the metric from this solution with other solutions."
"The end-to-end distributor tracing connectivity isn't there."
"I'd say I am happy with the technical support, not elated. They provide great support, but sometimes they don't have the answers that I need."
"It takes time to train people."
"I feel as though a major focus of upcoming releases should be set on Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, and I would enjoy to see more security focused add-ons and apps developed by the vendor."
"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."
"While Splunk Enterprise Security offers valuable features, its cost is high and could be more competitive."
"The GUI can be improved to include some of the capabilities that other BI solutions have."
"Deployment is not difficult but the lock sources and configurations can take time."
"I'd like to see more integration with more antivirus systems."
Akamai mPulse is ranked 51st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Akamai mPulse is rated 6.6, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Akamai mPulse writes "Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within". 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 ". Akamai mPulse is most compared with New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog and AppDynamics, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our Akamai mPulse vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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