We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Splunk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Splunk is clear the winner in this comparison. It is easier to deploy, more user-friendly, and has better support than Azure Monitor. In addition, Splunk received positive feedback in the ROI category.
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"Technical support is helpful."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"I haven't had the chance to properly sink my teeth into Enterprise Security but so far I like that they added the MITRE ATT&CK features."
"It has the ability to correlate data, analyze and review it."
"Splunk is stable, and this is why many customers want it."
"Splunk's visualizations make it easy for users to understand the data."
"You can check up on security from the dashboards."
"The ability to rapidly diagnose problems in production and non-production, across hundreds of log files, is the most valuable feature."
"We are much faster finding and addressing issues with Splunk."
"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."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"Splunk can be an expensive solution. Technical support could be improved as well."
"It would be nice if Splunk reduced the cost of training. Their training sessions are way too costly."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"When you get into large amounts of data, Splunk can get pretty slow. This is the same on-premise or AWS, it doesn't matter. The way that they handle large data sets could be improved."
"We would like more integrations with other cloud products, not just AWS, e.g., Azure."
"I love the solution, but I would like to see more accessibility to the machine-learning capabilities that are sprinkled around Splunk."
"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."
"Adding custom visualization in Splunk has been improved over the years but can still be made better by integrating more and more JavaScript visualization sources."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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 ". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Datadog. See our Azure Monitor vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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Hi @Netanya Carmi,
Below are some comparisons on features and Integrations.
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we have problems somewhere or if we are not getting the flow we expect. It is very easy to search for queries and events and then do analysis. The flexibility of the search capability is extremely valuable. Splunk works well with other solutions. It is very easy to set up and very straightforward to deploy.
The more data you process with Splunk, the more expensive it gets; an improved pricing model is needed. It would be great if Splunk had more SIEM functionality with better customization and a better ticket tool. The on-premises scaling is a bit more limited than on the cloud. Splunk currently has some limited default rules and customizations. If they could concentrate more on compliance and security information, that would be an added bonus.
Azure Monitor has made it significantly easier for us to monitor applications and infrastructure for possible problems. This solution offers a survey of surveillance in real time and a very helpful dashboard. Azure Monitor, which is integrated with Azure DevOps, has good load gathering and very good analytics. We get useful alerts with Azure Monitor that make recommendations about the security and the platform.
There should be more specific detail about where problems lie. Azure Monitor is lacking somewhat in vulnerability assessment; this aspect could be better. Their automation also needs some improvement. From gathering metrics from more applications to getting processes quickly started when something goes down, automation should be better.
Conclusion:
For us, Splunk is the better solution. We use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze, and visualize machine data, which it does very well. The dashboard is very intuitive. The log collection and log management tools are very good. We find Splunk’s search capability to be very powerful and flexible. Splunk can access any kind of data and there is no limitation to the kind of structured or unstructured data you can extract. Our team also liked that Splunk offers better integration with more solutions.