We compared Splunk Enterprise Security and LogRhythm SIEM across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Splunk Enterprise Security stands out for its efficiency, extensive integration options, and powerful search functionality. Users praised LogRhythm SIEM for its user-friendly centralized dashboard, strong integration capabilities, and event-filtering capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Splunk users recommended improvements in AI capabilities, user-friendliness, and analytics. LogRhythm SIEM has the potential to improve its SOAR and NDR features, platform stability, and MDI integration. LogRhythm users requested expanded log storage, better load balancing, and streamlined search capabilities.
Service and Support: While some users found Splunk support to be responsive and helpful, others reported slow response times and a lack of expertise. SIEM generally received praise for its helpful support, but some users encountered delays or had issues with inexperienced support engineers.
Ease of Deployment: Some users thought Splunk Enterprise Security was easy to deploy, while others found it challenging and needed assistance from Splunk engineers or third-party integrators. Small or medium-sized companies generally find LogRhythm easy to deploy. However, the setup is more time-consuming and complex for enterprise deployments involving multiple components or vendors, and users often require assistance from professional services or LogRhythm-certified engineers.
Pricing: Some users consider Splunk Enterprise Security to be expensive, but others said the price is reasonable. A few users expressed concerns about the cost of scaling up the solution and managing large volumes of data. LogRhythm SIEM’s license typically includes all elements. However, enterprise customers may encounter complexities related to additional features and add-ons.
ROI: Users said that it’s challenging to calculate an ROI for Splunk Enterprise Security, and the return varies depending on individual circumstances. While some users have observed a substantial ROI, others have not actively explored or been engaged in ROI conversations. LogRhythm SIEM has proven to be highly valuable, delivering a significant ROI by reducing the mean time to detect and respond.
Comparison Results: Splunk is highly regarded for its efficient data processing and powerful search capabilities. Users like Splunk's customization options and ability to quickly process data from multiple sources. However, reviews say Splunk could be more user-friendly and improve its capabilities by leveraging AI. LogRhythm's strengths include its centralized dashboard and event-filtering abilities, but it falls short in terms of performance, scalability, and optimization for security operations.
"The log query feature has been the most valuable because it's very good. You can put your data on the cloud and run queues from Sentinel. It will do it all very fast. I love that I don't have to upload it to an Excel file and then manually look for a piece of information. Sentinel is much faster and is good for big databases."
"It is always correlating to IOCs for normal attacks, using Azure-related resources. For example, if any illegitimate IP starts unusual activity on our Azure firewall, then it automatically generates an alarm for us."
"It is quite efficient. It helps our clients in identifying their security issues and respond quickly. Our clients want to automate incident response and all those things."
"We didn't have anything similar. So, it really provides value from the incidents and automation point of view. The overview of the security fabric is most valuable."
"It is easy to implement (turn on) - does need a skilled analyst to develop queries and playbooks."
"I've worked on most of the top SIEM solutions, and Sentinel has an edge in most areas. For example, it has built-in SOAR capabilities, allowing you to run playbooks automatically. Other vendors typically offer SOAR as a separate licensed solution or module, but you get it free with Sentinel. In-depth incident integration is available out of the box."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Sentinel is that it's cloud-based."
"We’ve got process improvement that's happened across multiple different fronts within the organization, within our IT organization based on this tool being in place."
"Alarms are the most valuable feature. We also like the dashboard and how things are at your fingertips. The fact that we can now edit the report templates is going to be a great thing."
"We should be able to response to threats and gain visibility into our environment that we don't currently have."
"It allows us to automate a lot of things with a smaller team."
"What I found most valuable in LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is that it's user-friendly. I also like its dashboard, which shows all the logs and information I want to see."
"The user interface is pretty good compared to other SIEM tools."
"The most valuable features would be the automation, reporting, and the support."
"NextGen SIEM's most valuable feature is its user-friendliness."
"The GUI is very intuitive and the solution has good integration."
"The search lookups are useful."
"Splunk is extremely flexible, which allows us to create custom visualizations along with other customizations."
"Its dashboard is valuable. If you have a good knowledge of how to create a dashboard, you can create any dashboard related to cybersecurity. If fine-tuned, the alarms that are triggered for instant review are also very valuable and useful."
"The ability to manipulate data in Splunk is unparalleled. Splunk’s powerful, flexible query language can morph difficult to understand log formats into usable data."
"Its integration is most valuable. Its UI is also pretty much easy."
"The most valuable features of the solution are it is straightforward to use and the documentation is good for finding out how to get the data you are looking for."
"It is the best tool if you have a complex environment or if data ingestion is too huge."
"The alerts are very effective."
"The only thing is sometimes you can have a false positive."
"We do see continuous improvement all the time, however, I haven't got a specific feature that is lacking or not well designed."
"The solution should allow for a streamlined CI/CD procedure."
"Its documentation is not so simple. It is easy for somebody who is Microsoft certified or more closely attached to Microsoft solutions. It is not easy for those who are working on open-source platforms. There isn't a central point where everything is documented, and there is no specific training or certification."
"I believe one of the challenges I encountered was the absence of live training sessions, even with the option to pay for them."
"Only one thing is missing: NDR is not available out-of-the-box. The competitive cloud-native SIEM providers have the NDR component. Currently, Sentinel needs NDR to be powered from either Corelight or some other NDR provider."
"In terms of features I would like to see in future releases, I'm interested in a few more use cases around automation. I do believe a lot of automation is available, and more is in progress, but that would be my area of interest."
"We have been working with multiple customers, and every time we onboard a customer, we are missing an essential feature that surprisingly doesn't exist in Sentinel. We searched the forums and knowledge bases but couldn't find a solution. When you onboard new customers, you need to enable the data connectors. That part is easy, but you must create rules from scratch for every associated connector. You click "next," "next," "next," and it requires five clicks for each analytical rule. Imagine we have a customer with 150 rules."
"We need to get better training for things like creating code and playlists. The way it's done now takes a long time."
"I would really like to see some type of group or global management for RIM policies,"
"The customer support system is time-consuming."
"We would like to see more things out of the console into the web UI. I guess this is what they are doing in 7.4."
"Parsing is totally controlled by LogRhythm and they do not allow any partner or any third-party to handle this part and this is a key challenge on my end."
"I would probably look for more things to go into the web console that is currently on the fat client."
"We have run into problems with stability going through upgrade processes. Recently, we have been on the front edge of the upgrade path. When that happens we tend to run into issues either with certain functionality not working after the upgrades or stability issues because of the upgrades."
"We're still struggling to get a real return on it and finding something that isn't false noise."
"Splunk is more expensive than other solutions."
"The ingestion happens quickly, so you can run up the data costs if you use the default settings. It isn't a problem for government agencies in the Saudi market, but many of the corporations in India are small or medium-sized enterprises that cannot afford that kind of ingestion system."
"We would like more integrations with other cloud products, not just AWS, e.g., Azure."
"While scheduled reports can be embedded, Splunk dashboard can not be embedded directly without enabling cross origin."
"It requires a significant amount of relatively complex architecture once you push past the single server instance."
"I love the solution, but I would like to see more accessibility to the machine-learning capabilities that are sprinkled around Splunk."
"In the next releases, I would like to see more pricing flexibility."
"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."
LogRhythm SIEM is ranked 7th in Log Management with 166 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 227 reviews. LogRhythm SIEM is rated 8.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of LogRhythm SIEM writes "The solution reduced our investigation time from days to hours and assists in managing our workflows". 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 ". LogRhythm SIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Wazuh, Fortinet FortiSIEM, LogRhythm Axon and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Google Chronicle Suite. See our LogRhythm SIEM vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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