We performed a comparison between Elastic Beats and Splunk Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh 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."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's search modes are a powerful feature."
"The solution is user friendly and has extensive uses."
"Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily."
"The Splunk search is powerful compared to similar solutions. We get millions of data points within seconds."
"he cloud performance is good."
"Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable."
"The data management and instant search features are the most valuable ones for us, as they allow us to instantly retrieve information needed for reports and security compliance."
"I like the fact that we do not have to maintain all the cloud infrastructure. That is probably the main thing about the Splunk Cloud Platform."
"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."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"Splunk Cloud could improve by having pre-defined templates. It has very good design views, but there is no predefined template. You have to define your own. If they could add predefined templates for different use cases."
"They can offer more self-service capability to their customers. Currently, most of the things happen behind the Splunk Cloud Platform. As a customer, I do not have an opportunity to see my platform. If they can offer more self-service to see the health of my endpoints and stack, it would be appreciated."
"The administration could use improvement. We have to rely on support more often than we're used to."
"The only thing that is missing from Splunk Cloud is the command-line interface."
"Some of the implementation is challenging. They're not very proxy-aware."
"There is sometimes no documentation or updated documentation available."
"The search for bulk data needs to be improved. When we were looking for the flow, we had to search really hard. I wanted to request the Splunk team to add some features for better search because getting the flow of the bulk data was sometimes hard."
"Every time they launch new versions, we experience a few bugs. The most recent version had a couple of bugs in the databases. We contacted the vendor and got assistance solving these bugs, so the environment is more stable."
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Elastic Beats doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Log Management while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 34 reviews. Elastic Beats is rated 8.0, while Splunk Cloud Platform is rated 8.0. 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 Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". Elastic Beats is most compared with , whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Check Point Security Management, AppInsights and Panther.
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