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 very user-friendly."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"The stability is fantastic."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"Our clients use the solution to find any threats or vulnerabilities inside their environment."
"It allows for transparency into IT metrics for insightful business analytics."
"This is a straightforward solution, easy to configure."
"We saw the granularity that we could get from Splunk far exceeded what we already had. We had the ability to have our security team really focus on the platform and stay within the platform, but they could correlate with a variety of other stakeholders, and our stakeholders were growing."
"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 ability to ingest different log types from many different products in our environment is most valuable."
"Splunk is quite flexible for our customers. Splunk does not filter from a specific lock, you can define it later."
"The solution is the market leader."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
"The tool can only monitor up to 1000 instances in a single SolarWinds console. Customers may have over 1000 instances. Hence, it needs to support a minimum of 1500 instances. It should also improve support."
"I would like to have a Syslog server module for this product. That would make the solution better."
"The dashboard of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The reporting module that got integrated into the system itself, used to be a standalone solution and I preferred that."
"If they’re going for a “cover everything” approach, then they need to do so and enable a bit more of the "cover everything approach" within every one of the tools."
"We are waiting for Dashboard Studio to mature a little bit more. There are some things that we are using with Classic Dashboards which have not yet made it to Dashboard Studio. We are waiting for that."
"The implementation and the scanning of the logs can be difficult."
"The pricing can be better."
"It takes time to train people."
"Not even Splunk's support guy, who came to our firm, could help with defining proper role management."
"While there aren't any major areas where the solution has to be improved, there are certain integrations that are still not available. I would specifically like to see legacy applications integrated."
"Some of the search functions can be better. There has been a lot of talk at the conference about the update of SPL before each iteration. That will be a lot of help."
"The solution should also have more advanced capabilities in comparison with QRadar, which offers Watson."
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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