We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Other products are good but from the configuration point of view Nagios is really very lightweight. The price is really good in my opinion. Another important thing is that my Nagios engine still works with Dual core 8GB ram for the last 10 years."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"Nagios Core is very configurable. Whatever you want, you can do it."
"The solution is quite efficient."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"I like that it's very simple to install, easy to manage and deploy, and easy to use for monitoring."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"The product is adept at log mining."
"It helps streamline troubleshooting and log analysis."
"You can check up on security from the dashboards."
"One of the most valuable features is threat hunting. We can do threat hunting and identify if there is any malicious activity happening within our environment, which is a key feature for us."
"There are a lot of third-party applications that can be installed."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It is a one stop shop as a full monitoring and alerting solution for operations and application analysis for most of our back-end systems."
"Splunk has give us the capability to easily track problems and their status."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"Making it a little easier to configure and set up from the start would help. There are multiple layers that you have to wade through to be able to set it up, to do it the right way, and to get it to do what you want it to do."
"The mapping is a little hard."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"It would be nice if the company offered a sales or contract manager that was dedicated to our company so that we would have some sort of link to Nagios, and if we had issues or questions, we'd be able to contact them directly."
"There is room for improvement in the graphics."
"The solution has a high learning curve for users. It's a little complicated when you're trying to figure out all the features and what they do."
"The GUI could be improved to include some of the capabilities that other BI solutions have. The layout is a little restrictive where you can’t resize all the panels to exactly how you would like them without tweaking some XML code."
"Could be more user friendly."
"We'd like to have the number of devices covered under the license to be increased."
"Make it easier to include roles and user controls, as it is horrible now."
"I think the tech support response time could be a bit better. Sometimes I need to wait more than 24 hours for a response to my tickets."
"I would like additional features in different programming models with the support for writing queries in SQL or other languages, such as C#, Java, or some other type of query definitions."
"The threat detection system has room for improvement."
Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". 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 ". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Centreon, Icinga and OP5 Monitor, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security.
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