We performed a comparison between Elastic Beats and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product."
"Visualizations helped the organisation with a better understanding of its KPIs."
"It scales better in the cloud than on-premise."
"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."
"Splunk has significantly reduced the time in performing the task of aggregating logs, reviewing as well as time spent during investigations."
"Ease of correlation, creating correlation searches are easy and you can combine multiple sources with little effort"
"Aggregation searches have reduced time and difficulty of identifying trends and conditions which need to reviewed."
"Our clients are easily able to modify and evolve their implementations."
"The most useful feature for me is the ability to create different kinds of alerts and set a different kind of denominator that will capture the real event. That is helpful for a power user like me."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
"We had an instance when Splunk failed and it took us a couple of days to recover."
"The integration could be a bit better. They charge for certain integrations."
"My biggest struggle with Splunk in general is memorizing all the commands. If I want to know which users have logged in between certain hours, I cannot write that query out. It would be helpful to have AI so that I can explain in simple terms what I want and then the search gives that back to me. I am waiting for that."
"AngularJS/ReactJS inclusion could be made easier in GUI."
"The UI can be difficult to understand for non-technical people."
"I find that the learning curve for Splunk is relatively lengthy."
"Splunk could enhance its services by providing more comprehensive professional assistance aimed at optimizing our investment."
"Considering the contract thing and the whole legal area, it takes forever to get the contracts signed and to be able to agree to the terms and conditions for my company as well as for Splunk's team."
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Elastic Beats doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Log Management while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 235 reviews. Elastic Beats is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Elastic Beats writes "A robust solution with a whole spectrum of features that's extremely scalable". 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 ". Elastic Beats is most compared with , whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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