We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"The solution can be deployed quickly."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its powerful monitoring capabilities."
"The Splunk user community and forum are most valuable."
"The Splunk queries are valuable."
"We did not encounter any issues with scalability. It is almost seamless to add new index (storage) or search (used to analyze the data) nodes to the cluster."
"Splunk Enterprise Security helped us with faster detection of threats."
"Deployment server for deploying changes in one go."
"I haven't had the chance to properly sink my teeth into Enterprise Security but so far I like that they added the MITRE ATT&CK features."
"Splunk is stable, and this is why many customers want it."
"The best part of Splunk Enterprise Security is its customizable settings."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"The product needs to reduce its price."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."
"One area that could benefit from improvement is its performance"
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
"They should make data onboarding easier."
"Not even Splunk's support guy, who came to our firm, could help with defining proper role management."
"The glass table feature does not perform as expected."
"The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"The initial setup is complex, but this is necessary. We needed to take into consideration how to direct log files from thousands of machines to Splunk, and how to ingest those files."
"When we do a rollout from the server or host or anything, we'd like to see more automation. It would save us time."
"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."
"The monitoring aspect of Splunk could be improved. We have to do some queries to get as much information as CrowdStrike or other solutions provide. If you run a big query, you will see a delay. That is the only concern we have because it will take some time if you query large data sets."
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SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 227 reviews. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". 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 Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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