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 alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"All the features are very good. The monitoring of the equipment, the configuration manager, and the IP address monitoring are great."
"I can do everything remotely, including running PowerShell scripts or performing standard updates."
"A product that is well-tested and trusted in demanding situations."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"This solution offers a very good view of our network and allows us to effectively monitor performance."
"The interface is user-friendly, making it easy to use."
"The flexibility of the search capability is most valuable. You can use it for more than just a basic log aggregator. It is powerful in that regard."
"Splunk is a user-friendly solution."
"There are a lot of third-party applications that can be installed."
"Out-of-the-box, it seems very powerful."
"Splunk is extremely flexible, which allows us to create custom visualizations along with other customizations."
"Its integration is most valuable. Its UI is also pretty much easy."
"Being able to track impossible travel logins and things of that nature is valuable. We can track user logins from various IPs, various countries, and at various times to see if everything adds up."
"The speed of the search engine"
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"The reporting module that got integrated into the system itself, used to be a standalone solution and I preferred that."
"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."
"Technical support and releases are not particularly reliable."
"This product could improve by adding cloud monitoring. I want SolarWinds NPM to do much more integration, and have more involvement in cloud monitoring, like AWS or Google, or Azure. I feel like it requires lots of improvement for cloud monitoring in NPM."
"Currently lacks integration with SMS services."
"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."
"Splunk does not provide any default threat intelligence like Microsoft Sentinel, but you can integrate any third-party threat intelligence with Splunk. By default, no threat intelligence suite is there, whereas, with IBM QRadar or Microsoft Sentinel, the default feature of threat intelligence is there. It is free. If Splunk can provide a default threat intelligence suite, it would be better."
"Splunk is more expensive than other solutions."
"I think the tech support response time could be a bit better. Sometimes I need to wait more than 24 hours for a response to my tickets."
"I feel the solution to be too slow."
"An improved user interface along with multi-tenancy support would be beneficial."
"The biggest problem is data compression. Splunk is an outstanding product, but it is a resource hog. There should be better data compression for being able to maintain our data repositories. We end up having to buy lots of additional storage just to house our Splunk data. This is my only complaint about it."
"Features related to content management must be improved."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 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, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security.
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