We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"SolarWinds dashboard is very fast. Also, their interface is very good, it looks very user-friendly. The product allows me to see a summary of the network being monitored at a glance."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"It covers everything from end to end, from the standpoint of endpoint machines and the routers and switches. The switch port also comes there."
"It is a great resource for us because we have so many different data sources and to be able to aggregate that and put it through a concise dashboard or an alert really helps."
"The features I have found most valuable are log searching and log analytics, both of which are quick features."
"I find the monitoring console very helpful. With one click, I can see how we are performing, and at the same time, I can see what data is flowing."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the data integration."
"Splunk has drawn our attention to how the network is running. If there are alarms on things that are not functioning, it gives us early warning on problems that could arise."
"We haven't really experienced any glitches or bugs."
"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."
"The product retains a lot of log data for subsequent analysis."
"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."
"Real-time analytics is the major weakness of the SolarWinds NPM platform today. They've done a fantastic job enabling the collection of data. Users are now demanding the ability to generate their own graphs, views, and so on; all of this must be done by an admin today."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"The solution's customer service is not very good because the support takes too long."
"Sometimes there are issues when upgrading to a new version of the product."
"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."
"It has covered everything, so no improvement is required at their end. The only thing is the price."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"The deployment can be quite complex."
"We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features."
"The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."
"It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers."
"A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers."
"Splunk could be better integrated with configuration manager solutions so we can automatically resolve issues without human interference."
"I would like to see an improvement and some innovation in the customer interface."
"There is a lot of room for improvement with the automation."
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SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 14th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 23 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2. 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 Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Cisco Intersight, ITRS Geneos and ControlUp. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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