We performed a comparison between Splunk APM 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."Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"It gives me notifications of notable events."
"The ability to quickly search logs, performance data, and other inputs has helped tremendously with troubleshooting."
"Search language is easy to understand and teach to new users."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Enterprise Security is the comprehensive logging capabilities it provides."
"The solution allows easy gathering and ingestion of the data."
"The most valuable feature is the DSS, also known as SPL, because it allows users to script advanced queries with limited knowledge."
"Its huge, versatile AppBase helped me to configure and bring data from different sources to a unified platform."
"Its usability is the best part. It is easy for our developers to use if they want to search their logs, etc."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"Its user interface for everything other than the charts can be improved. Some parts of it can be simplified a bit, such as when importing documents that have the network traffic. When you're going through the information about the network traffic, you have to have the expertise, but even if a program is supposed to be for IT support, it is good to make it user-friendly because it gets easier to train people. When something goes wrong, the more difficult a program is in terms of UI, the harder it is to fix the issue."
"It takes time to train people."
"Their technical support sucks."
"Splunk is more expensive than other solutions."
"The security can be improved."
"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."
"The product was difficult to back up the first time."
"The threat detection library needs to increase the frequency at which the playbooks are updated."
Splunk APM is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Splunk APM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". 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 ". Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Datadog, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our Splunk APM vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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