We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios XI is customization. We can customize based on our requirements. We can do modifications and implement a lot of scripts. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"The search lookups are useful."
"The graph visualization is the most valuable feature."
"The ability to view all of these different logs, then drilling down into specific times or into specific data sources, has proved to be the greatest aspect in decreasing our troubleshooting overhead time."
"It is very simple to tweak or write a small piece of glue code to go ahead and create a new dashboard for a business unit to make near real-time decisions to focus more on other geographies when launching the product."
"You can integrate Splunk with third-party security automation solutions and set rules for automatic response."
"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."
"This is a straightforward solution, easy to configure."
"The solution is the market leader."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"I would like to be able to extend it to all of our data centers, whether they are in the cloud or not. It would be helpful if I could connect everywhere."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"We usually have to follow up with technical support on our open cases."
"Most of my interaction is with the user community, which is how Splunk wants it. When I need help, that community is very hit or miss."
"Better directions on search head clusters."
"The solution could use a different licensing model."
"It can be tough to get a hold of somebody in technical support depending on the complexity of the issue."
"It works as intended for us, and we are getting everything that we need out of it. If anything, its initial setup can be improved a bit."
"I would like to see future development in terms of ML (Machine Learning)."
"I find that the learning curve for Splunk is relatively lengthy."
Nagios XI is ranked 8th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". 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 XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security.
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