We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The interface is ergonomic and native. We can use UCS Manager to do all the configurations for the servers, including storage, networking, and all the other components we need inside the fabric. It's simple and flexible."
"Cisco Infrastructure is one of the top vendors and no one can beat them in terms of switching and routing."
"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"I can quickly manage the provisioned servers."
"The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"From a usability and functionality perspective, Cisco UCS Manager is very good."
"When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time."
"The reporting functionality will give you any report you want."
"In the past we used the different application to collect logs. We used SurfWatch and VMware to do so. But, we found that the Splunk has more capacity to do more in less time. They provide a aster speed to index all the events , and this is a huge asset."
"It allows for transparency into IT metrics for insightful business analytics."
"The data representation options in the dashboards are excellent."
"The Splunk user community and forum are most valuable."
"We saw the granularity that we could get from Splunk far exceeded what we already had. We had the ability to have our security team really focus on the platform and stay within the platform, but they could correlate with a variety of other stakeholders, and our stakeholders were growing."
"It has reduced the time to resolution, time to investigate, and time to troubleshoot for debugging issues."
"The most valuable feature is the custom dashboard feature."
"Good for log collection and log management."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"The installation and upgrade sytems need to be improved."
"I found it a bit of a challenge to get training on UCSM. I've been trying to get that for some time now. I feel like I have to figure it out a lot of things myself. For years I've to log calls with support whenever I've got challenges that I cannot resolve. If I had some training or more manuals, I'd be better able to handle more things on my own."
"Its user interface can be improved. It can be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."
"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"Getting a CLI report on routers, switches, or any other CLI configuration device is difficult."
"There are new services which are coming up. If Splunk can catch up with the speed of Amazon, and with the integration, instead of us waiting for another year or so, that would be good."
"Deployment is not difficult but the lock sources and configurations can take time."
"Our two main complaints are about the difficulty of the initial setup and the licensing model."
"It is a hugely complicated product."
"Its pricing model and integration with third-party services can be improved. We had faced an issue with integration. The alerting feature is currently not available with Splunk, but it is definitely available with Datadog and PagerDuty. They should include this feature. A few dashboards in Splunk look quite old and are not that modern. They aren't bad, but improving these dashboards will definitely make Splunk more attractive and usable. I read in a few blog posts that there were a few security incidents related to Splunk agents. So, it can be made more secure."
"You do need a lot of training and certification with this product."
"The UI can be difficult to understand for non-technical people."
"Its reporting can be improved. That's the only complaint I have heard. I don't need the reporting part, but I know that other people in the organization need it."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Used to manage servers, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies". 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 ". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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