We performed a comparison between Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"The ability to track performance of an application or application suite over time is extremely valuable to our business partners and for our application development team with near real time results."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"It has a rapid response search environment in the event of an incident."
"Splunk would be my choice for the presentation layer because it comes with inbuilt reports and a dashboard that you can customize."
"Good for log collection and log management."
"Recently, Splunk upgraded to version 9.0.02, which includes excellent data dashboards and visualization effects."
"We have a more secure, robust environment, which keeps the harmful software out of the zone required."
"It provides a lot of analytics with the underlying AI engine, and it is a lot easier than other solutions. There are some products that do automated AI-based detection and drawing up charts, but for network monitoring and all of the monitoring aspects, it is quite a nice tool. It is very convenient for business users because they get more or less a lot of data readily available. If you're familiar with the Splunk query language, you can pretty much do whatever you want."
"The best part of Splunk Enterprise Security is its customizable settings."
"The initial setup is really straightforward. It's one of the easiest installations."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"Splunk could add more ways to manage archiving and storage. There isn't a web interface. You can do this on the SaaS version, but the on-premise platform doesn't have this option. It has other things but no option for remote NAS. I would like to have a personal web interface where I can specify how long logs should be stored. To have this readily available on the web, you need to adjust some settings on the backend. That is tricky."
"The use cases provided by Splunk are a good starting point, but could cover many additional topics to ensure that a smaller or less experienced shop might maximize the value of an ES deployment."
"Splunk Enterprise Security can be improved by including backup network detection and response and safe management to the paid platform."
"This is a costly solution."
"On the technical side, it would be nice to see aspects of the recent acquisition of Phantom make it into the core Splunk Enterprise, not just become a part of the premium Enterprise Security."
"Its pricing model and integration with third-party services can be improved. We had faced an issue with integration. The alerting feature is currently not available with Splunk, but it is definitely available with Datadog and PagerDuty. They should include this feature. A few dashboards in Splunk look quite old and are not that modern. They aren't bad, but improving these dashboards will definitely make Splunk more attractive and usable. I read in a few blog posts that there were a few security incidents related to Splunk agents. So, it can be made more secure."
"Free-floating panels in the dashboards are like a glass table."
"Delays in responses from the technical team can pose challenges for both vendors and clients, especially considering that Splunk applications and machine solutions are critical assets."
Earn 20 points
Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] writes "We evaluated other options including BMC, but chose Foglight for it's notifications & the ability to review the history". 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 ". Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security.
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