We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM 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."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"Monitoring capabilities are at a high level and it is easy to see utilization, access ports, and CPU memory in real time or through a lens for long-term visualization."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"There are a lot of valuable features with SolarWinds NPM. We can receive a lot of detailed data from the monitoring that can use useful for investigations, especially when you are troubleshooting. It is very helpful. Overall it was a very good experience."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"Speeds up root cause analysis and can help identify issues that your organization never realized were occurring."
"It allows for transparency into IT metrics for insightful business analytics."
"The product has a good security posture."
"There are lots of free learning materials on their website."
"I am satisfied with the support."
"The technical support is among the best in the market."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk is the management and built-in workflows."
"Its dashboard is valuable. If you have a good knowledge of how to create a dashboard, you can create any dashboard related to cybersecurity. If fine-tuned, the alarms that are triggered for instant review are also very valuable and useful."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"The dashboard of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"The only thing that can be improved is to continually add to the existing capabilities of the product."
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
"There can be a bit of complexity around some fields during the initial setup."
"On-premises scaling of the solution is a bit more limited than it is on the cloud."
"Splunk has a steeper learning curve, making it feel less user-friendly."
"The level of scalability depends on the license you have. You can expand or reduce it based on the environment. It does cost more money to scale, however."
"The security can be improved."
"Spam has different plugins but by default, the logs are not organized, it shows that there are roll-ups that are out of the box. I saw many plugins that can help improve or extend Splunk's functionality but I haven't tried any of them."
"If you monitor too much, you can lose performance on your systems."
"In the next releases, I would like to see more pricing flexibility."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 146 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 221 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". 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 ". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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