We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Splunk Enterprise Security 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."We find the solution to be stable."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
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"We are using Microsoft 365 and we're using the Exchange Mail Service. It's good for monitoring that in particular."
"The additional vendors we've brought on board, particularly the elastic, have been quite beneficial."
"Its huge, versatile AppBase helped me to configure and bring data from different sources to a unified platform."
"The most valuable features are the logs, which allow us to identify what happened and who interacted with the web repository."
"It's better than IBM, in my opinion, because it's an independent entity."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards are a key asset."
"The client site login is pretty extensible and probably cost-effective."
"From my experience, the visual aid that it provides is most valuable. There are charts and other means to provide information."
"It could be even more automated."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be more stable."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
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"Splunk ES could have more pre-built integrations and rules. The detection is fairly accurate, but it depends on the rules you create. Splunk's out-of-the-box configuration isn't that useful."
"The solution could use a different licensing model."
"The tool itself is very difficult to configure. It's great for its number of inputs, for the different types of systems devices, and things that it could collect information from. To actually make good use of it, you need a fairly dedicated team of people that have some reasonably good programming or modeling skills to be able to do the things that you need to do with it. Whereas a lot of the other tools are better packaged for that, and so require a lot less training and a lot less dedication."
"The UI could be better. This is applicable to Splunk in general. I know that a lot of people who get their hands on Splunk are hesitant to use it just because they find it overwhelming. There are a lot of options."
"The product is relatively expensive."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"In the next releases, I would like to see more pricing flexibility."
"Enterprise security: Splunk must work on clarifying the solution to customers and explain how to gain more from it."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 27th in Log Management with 9 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 227 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". 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 ". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Grafana and Sentry, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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