We performed a comparison between Nagios Log Server 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."It provides an easy way to identify errors and spot issues, making troubleshooting more efficient."
"One of the most valuable features is the dashboard because the UI was effective and easy to use. The alert systems are good as well. We had no failovers and had high availability. We can search the queries fast as well in Nagios Log Server."
"The initial setup of Nagios Log Server was easy and straightforward."
"The product is scalable."
"A great feature of the solution involves its internal portal."
"It is very scalable."
"The indexing and data collection are valuable."
"It is easy to use, and easy to implement."
"Visualizations helped the organisation with a better understanding of its KPIs."
"I really like the user interface and how it works."
"I like the ease with which dashboards can be created."
"The best part of Splunk Enterprise Security is its customizable settings."
"Splunk's interface is user-friendly, and it has apps and add-ons for most applications. We can easily normalize the data to make it readable and understand the logs. We easily get all the field extractions and enrichment done by using the apps and add-ons. This helps us understand the application logs because the raw data is useless unless we extract some useful information from it. These add-ons make it so much easier."
"The configurations during initial setup could be improved. If they could be agentless, as in the case of the Ansible product, it would be better. I would like to be able to analyze the network bandwidth."
"The support could be better."
"The customization and dashboards have shortcomings and need to be improved to make the tool look more presentable."
"It would be beneficial for Nagios to incorporate a tool that goes beyond log management and includes features to monitor overall system health and assess the effectiveness of antivirus solutions."
"As we are talking about a product which is open to the public, the pricing makes it challenging for us to profit off of its marketing."
"An area of improvement would be the licensing of the solution. They need a free license, which would allow faster lead times."
"The analytics of Splunk could be improved."
"It does not give us permission to implement on-premise so we implement them on the cloud."
"I would like some additional AI capabilities to provide additional information about things going wrong and things going well."
"We'd like to have the number of devices covered under the license to be increased."
"The solution could improve by making it more business analysis oriented. The way it is now is designed more for developers."
"I find that the learning curve for Splunk is relatively lengthy."
"It would be great if I could have a certain dialogue box in Splunk that uses innovative AI tools like ChatGPT, which are available now in the tech department."
Nagios Log Server is ranked 38th in Log Management with 5 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 228 reviews. Nagios Log Server is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nagios Log Server writes "A scalable and affordable tool for monitoring data centers ". 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 Log Server is most compared with Wazuh, Graylog, LogRhythm SIEM, syslog-ng and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Nagios Log Server vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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