We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Operations Management and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a very stable product."
"We're using native monitoring capabilities for all our server hardware, for visibility for applications, for URLs, for webpage response and accuracy, and for monitoring network throughput in a lot of particular instances. We're using lightweight protocols for pinging, for DNS, for LDAP."
"The ability to pull hosts together to show what processes are running, so it can be used for change management."
"It works irrespective of the operating system we’re running."
"The most valuable features of BMC TrueSight Operations Management are the blackouts and event management."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is the dashboard presentation server."
"The event management part of TrueSight Operations Management, in my experience, is probably the best in the market. You have endless flexibility. You can build your own rules, you have the MRL language, and you can implement any kind of logic on the alerts. It may be correlation, abstraction, or executing something as a result of the alerts. You have almost the whole range of options available for event management using the available customization."
"Splunk gives my clients the ability to bring multiple, disparate types of data together, then correlate and report on them."
"The product has a good security posture."
"The log aggregation is great."
"Positive features include replication capabilities, software development kits, and the architecture."
"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."
"Splunk UBA is useful for fraud detection and for detection of APTs, advanced persistent threats."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards are a key asset."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Splunk is."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could improve the reporting."
"BMC's solutions for cloud monitoring (monitoring of AWS and Azure resources) are very poor in stability and customization."
"Specifically around application performance monitoring, BMC is definitely not the market leader. The Dynatraces, the New Relics and the like are more of the market leaders in that space. I would like to see them grow that space a little bit more aggressively. It has not really been their bread and butter."
"There are some small limitations with this tool in terms of reporting dashboards that fit all of the requirements of the individual customer."
"Deployment requires lots of resources (servers). It has too many consoles."
"It's too complex, too many servers are required, there are too many different components in the solution, and a lot of agents are required."
"The product must provide more AI capabilities."
"The product must provide application or service monitoring features."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
"The glass table feature does not perform as expected."
"If possible, we would like to have not only a log monitoring system but a network monitoring feature in this solution as well."
"On-premises scaling of the solution is a bit more limited than it is on the cloud."
"If you monitor too much, you can lose performance on your systems."
"The implementation and the scanning of the logs can be difficult."
"The threat detection system has room for improvement."
"They should make data onboarding easier."
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BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 20th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 48 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". 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 ". BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix and AppDynamics, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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