Compare HPE OneView vs. Splunk
HPE OneView is ranked 12th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 15 reviews while Splunk is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 58 reviews. HPE OneView is rated 8.0, while Splunk is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE OneView writes "It gives us a view of all our servers, which we did not have before in real-time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk writes "Its AMIs make it easy to spin up a Splunk cluster or add a new node to it". HPE OneView is most compared with Zabbix, Dell EMC CloudIQ and Huawei eSight, whereas Splunk is most compared with IBM QRadar, Dynatrace and Graylog.
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I can't point to one valuable feature. All of Centreon is good. It is decentralized, which is better, because you can reduce the load from a single system. Also, you get a better view because it's more independent. Then, for the management, it's nice because they have one central system. With that, they can manage all the other systems, as well. This means they don't have to configure each system by system. They can configure it from one single interface. We use the remote server functionality on some customer sites, because you can see an independent view and are not dependent on a single connection. If you have branch offices or bigger office outside your headquarters, you can use remote servers because if the connection is broken or disrupted, then remote server will obtain a view of your environment and server availability. This is a good point against using other solutions. Because with other solutions, you don't have this feature. Then, you will be blind if you have this type of a situation. I find the product's scalability to be one of the most valuable features since it allows us to add unlimited devices for monitoring and to set up additional polling servers without additional license cost or downtime in our monitoring. The product is available in ISO image format, ready for deployment. Centreon also has a comprehensive guide and documentation that are simple and easy to follow. The most important feature is that it permits us to receive alarms if there is an incident within the infrastructure. The feature I love the most is the reporting feature, the MBI (Monitoring Business Intelligence) which permits us to send advanced reports to our customers in PDF format or in Doc format. We also deploy Centreon Map which gives our customers intuitive views of their information system. We are alerted on service impacts and not when something is down. We have saved a lot of time on non-business-hours intervention. What I like most about Centreon is that it is very flexible and customizable, based on the user and/or business needs. Centreon is very flexible when it comes to monitoring parameters. We can use scripts found on the internet or scripts created by our infra/apps team. Also, the data visualization features are very simple and straightforward, yet very informative. | We could literally swap out a piece of hardware, slide one back into the chassis, and immediately - about three reboots later - it was identical. We didn't have to worry about configuring it, we didn't have to spend any time getting anything into place. It came back and it healed the environment almost immediately. Comprehensive dashboard, ease of use are key features. Broad range of tools to create executive and operations dashboards. Gives the business interfaces to view real-time pictures of IT business services. It gives us a view of all our servers, which we did not have before in real-time. The stability is very good. I have never had an issue with it over the three years that I have been using it. Deploys faster new virtual services. The template management makes the deployment of the firmware updates much faster. | With good domain knowledge, one can build almost anything. If you throw in Alert Manager or an integration with ServiceNow. Then, you have your own SIEM Our clients are easily able to modify and evolve their implementations. The initial setup is really straightforward. It's one of the easiest installations. It helps us uncover bottlenecks in the network. it can explain to management about what kind of traffic is visiting the network. It can also explain other traffic coming in and out, along with protecting against malware. The most valuable feature of Splunk is the log monitoring. It can log more logs than other solutions. It's a good way to troubleshoot problems. We can present to our management in real time the security of the batch management for the PCs, security regarding the network equipment. We're currently working in the Azure Cloud project, so we can send any logs from the cloud to Splunk. We can monitor them and we can present to the managers and customers. It's a very good solution for reporting. We use Splunk for reporting and monitoring of any solution in the company. |
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There is room for improvement in the area of artificial intelligence. The product gives us a lot of information, but it's only information. We want the product to do more auto-remediation. I would like to see an improvement of the communication with big data systems, because Centreon is a monitoring system. In our point of view, Centreon should be a part of a source for a big data system, not a big data system itself. So, it should be easier to add data from the Centreon system to a big data system. For example, it should be able to teach machine learning. Centreon supports officially 10,000 services per poller. That is not much for larger customers, because this limit is reached very quickly. We use it with three times the limit without any problems, but Centreon says, "Okay, we are only supporting it with 10,000 services." We are aware that increasing the limit has different impacts because they need to support it. However, for most customers, it would be be very good if they could increase the limit of services. The Home view could be improved by adding customization functions that allow users to change the size of the widgets for a more uniform layout. Centreon technical support is only available during Central European business hours. When it comes to critical business solutions, there should be a 24/7 hotline that customers can rely on. I would like to see a better UI, one which is more responsive. The most important issue is the capability to interconnect with other systems. It already exists for some of them. For example, the Stream Connector is something we use to populate data in another system. This kind of facility for connecting should exist for all products that it makes sense to have connected to a monitoring solution. Centreon needs to improve the granularity of the data as well as the graphical data. It would also be better to if there was improvement to the filtering/grouping system as well as the creation of views. | Sometimes the interface can be a little confusing, sometimes the error messages can be very cryptic, as far as what's actually going on. The main problem that we run into, as far as stability goes, is when something loses its profile. Sometimes it requires jumping through a number of "hoops" to really get it back. I would like to see them expand into other cloud platforms, non-HPE platforms. I think HPE could make more user-friendly interfaces, exclude Java and move to an HTML5 platform, make more detailed documentation, and lower the price. I have to chop it up into smaller parts, because I have an installation in Europe and it covers the whole world. That is not so good. They need to be more localized, so I am going to chop it up into smaller bits. I had some minor difficulties with upgrading, but the solution still works fine. Use it, but do not think it is going into the clouds, because it is not. There is room for improvement. There was a feature called HPE cloud manager, but now it is owned by Micro Focus. HPE should make a cloud optimizer again. | It needs a better way to export dynamic views without requiring a ton of code and user/pw. It needs integration with a configuration management solution. It needs integration with a configuration management solution. They should make data onboarding easier. The product was difficult to back up the first time. Splunk needs local technical support. If possible, we would like to have not only a log monitoring system but a network monitoring feature in this solution as well. Cybersecurity and infrastructure monitoring have room for improvement. |
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The pricing starts at around 5000 euro. However, this depends on: Your environment, the size of your host, how many hosts you have, how many remote pollers you have, and if you want to use the Monitoring Business Intelligence or Centreon MAP functionalities. You purchase a package. You have a support contract (there is also a platinum support contract) and it is per module. That means you have to pay, e.g., for the MBI module or the BAM module. Or, if you want to save a lot of money, you can pay for IMP, which is the complete package. Open-source solutions like this can be very cost effective for an organization looking for a product that they can quickly implement, as there is no initial cost and there are no license renewal fees. However, it is important to take into consideration some of the related costs that may come along as needed, such as training, support, and product enhancements. The solution is very effective, despite the low price. I think Centreon's pricing is fair, especially given the criticality of our system. They were cheaper than the other solutions. The licensing terms were pretty straightforward. I believe it was based on the number of hosts. The pricing is acceptable. They only sell four hour slots for support, so if you have just one question, then you need to pay for four hours. Or, you need to wait until you have enough questions to fill those four hours. They are not flexible in this. For more complex tasks, we use prepaid support days and ask Centreon to come onsite. | HPE could lower the price. Use it. It is free. I am happy with the price. HPE had some other solutions, but they were actually quite expensive to buy. So, when OneView came along, it was kind of reasonable in terms of price for licenses, etc. | Splunk is really expensive. Splunk should be able to integrate with other product using the free version. The pricing and licensing of the product are quite high. Splunk's cost is very high. They need to review the pricing. They have to go back and totally readdress the market. It's a little bit expensive for a small to medium enterprise. I think the price could be improved. I am not personally involved with the pricing of the solution. Some of the insights that we have obtained as a part of using Splunk have greatly helped us in increasing our revenue in terms of selling our products. |
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| HP OneView | ||
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| Centreon | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Splunk |
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| The Centreon solution, based on a free to download Open Source Platform, monitors all critical IT Infrastructure and Applications with real-time dashboards, analytics and insightful alerts that prevent business-impacting downtimes. Since 2005, over 200,000 IT professionals from SMBs and Fortune 500 companies rely on Centreon to guarantee their organization operational performance. | HPE OneView is your infrastructure automation engine to simplify operations, increasing the speed of IT delivery for new applications and services. Through software defined intelligence, HPE OneView brings a new level of automation to infrastructure management by taking a template driven approach to provisioning, updating, and integrating compute, storage, and networking infrastructure. Designed with a modern, standard-based API and supported by a large and growing partner ecosystem, HPE OneView also makes it easy to integrate powerful infrastructure automation into existing IT tools and processes. Take command with HPE OneView to deploy infrastructure faster, simplify operations and increase productivity. HPE OneView innovations provide you the industry’s best infrastructure management experience, simplifying operations for HPE BladeSystem, HPE ProLiant servers, 3PAR storage, HPE Networking and HPE ConvergedSystems. | Splunk software has been around since 2006 and the company has since grown to become an industry leader. Splunk's vision is to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everybody. The company offers a wide range of products to turn machine data into valuable information by monitoring and analyzing all activities. This is known as Operational Intelligence and is the unique value proposition of Splunk. Splunk is well-known for its Log Management capabilities and also for its Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions. |
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| Airbus, Bollore, BT, Canal Plus, Kuehne Nagel, Limagrain, LVMH, Oberthur Technologies, Orange, Darty, Addax Petroleum, Plastic Omnium, Auchan, Valeo, Saint Gobin, Clarins, Hugo Boss, JC Decaux, French Government (Defense, Justice, Environment, Agriculture), OptiComm, Thales, Zeiss. | Asante, ITS Nordics, Columbus Communications, Mansfield Oil | Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey. |
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Software R&D Company32% Comms Service Provider13% Media Company9% Financial Services Firm6% | Financial Services Firm25% Healthcare Company18% Retailer13% Insurance Company10% Software R&D Company48% Financial Services Firm12% Comms Service Provider8% Hospitality Company6% | Financial Services Firm20% Energy/Utilities Company14% Retailer12% Insurance Company8% Software R&D Company25% Financial Services Firm13% Comms Service Provider11% Media Company6% |
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