We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The sky is the limit because the solution is a flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"Splunk has give us the capability to easily track problems and their status."
"Splunk has improved our operations by giving us access to more information and allowing us to deploy more use cases."
"The search function for spam is like a google search. You just enter and it will quickly show you the results."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I like the ease with which dashboards can be created."
"What I really like is that even if you have already collected the data, you can extract fields and can build searches."
"The correlation search functions that generate all the notables are valuable. That can get pretty complicated, and it handles that pretty well."
"The correlation searches (properly configured) populate the Incident Management dashboard and provide me a quick birds-eye view of my most important concerns."
"Prometheus can be initially difficult for users since it has its query language, PromQL. The minimalistic interface is complicated to understand. They need to improve their interface so that users who don't know PromQL can also use it. You can only leverage the tool when you know PromQL."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"Its stability could be even better."
"The configuration had a bit of a learning curve."
"Given the ever-increasing number of threats, I would like Splunk to update its threat signatures more frequently."
"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."
"Splunk's ability to analyze malicious activities scores an 8 out of 10, but there's room for improvement. By analyzing emerging patterns, Splunk could identify and predict potential threats more effectively."
"The complexity could be worked on so that it's even easier and faster."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"Sometimes, there is latency in the logs."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". 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 ". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and VMware Aria Operations for Applications, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Prometheus vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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