We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Splunk Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the speed, as it responds in a very short time."
"Just the ability to do a lot more than just up-down is nice, which a lot of people take for granted."
"I can look at events from more than one source across multiple different locations and find patterns or anomalies. The machine learning capabilities are helpful, and I can create rules for notifications to be more proactive rather than responding after something has gone wrong."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Elastic Security is very customizable, and the dashboards are very easy to build."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the prevention methods and the incident alerts."
"We chose the product based on the ability to scan for malware using a malware behavioral model as opposed to just a traditional hash-based antivirus. Therefore, it's not as intensive."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"We only buy the services we need. We don't have to pay for other things we don't."
"The most valuable feature for me is the flexibility of being able to send the log to the https endpoint."
"Index manager is most valuable because we do not have to bother about internal storage. It is all managed by the Splunk team."
"Everything is maintained by the Splunk support team. Users do not have to maintain any physical servers. They do not have to maintain indexes and searches. It reduces a lot of work on the user side."
"The most valuable feature is we don't have to deal with any back-end server maintenance because the solution is cloud-based."
"Not having to manage Splunk Cloud's infrastructure is valuable."
"I can trace an event back to its root cause. I can find the root cause instead of just looking at the symptoms across different things."
"It has definitely improved our organization by virtue of reducing the amount of overhead we would have had for those environments. Having to implement, maintain, or even update the existing stuff would have been extremely time-consuming. Splunk Cloud handles all of that for us. So it's definitely been helpful from that perspective. It's allowed them to maintain upgrades for far further than they are. Some of the hosts of that environment were still on version 7 so they could get upgraded feature parity."
"One thing they could add is a quick step to enable users who don't have a solid background to build a dashboard and quickly search, without difficulty."
"I would like the process of retrieving archived data and viewing it in Kibana to be simplified."
"The interface could be more user friendly because it is sometimes hard to deal with."
"This solution is very hard to implement."
"Email notification should be done the same way as Logentries does it."
"Elastic has one problem. In the past, Elastic Security was free. Now, they currently only offer the basic license or a certain period of time."
"The solution could offer better reporting features."
"The tool needs to integrate with legacy servers. Big companies can have legacy servers that may not always be updated."
"Splunk Cloud Platform needs to be made more user-friendly because it's not user-friendly."
"Some of the implementation is challenging. They're not very proxy-aware."
"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."
"Customization could be simplified."
"Splunk Cloud Platform should improve its integrations and consider multiple integrations or direct integration with other platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS."
"There could be better searches, but mainly, it needs to improve the performance with a vast amount of data. That will make it better and easier to use."
"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."
"The administration could use improvement. We have to rely on support more often than we're used to."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 34 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Splunk Cloud Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Check Point Security Management, AppInsights and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Elastic Security vs. Splunk Cloud Platform report.
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