We performed a comparison between Splunk Cloud Platform and syslog-ng based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Everything is maintained by the Splunk support team. Users do not have to maintain any physical servers. They do not have to maintain indexes and searches. It reduces a lot of work on the user side."
"The most valuable feature for me is the flexibility of being able to send the log to the https endpoint."
"For my current requirements, the tool theme seems to be meeting my requirements, from a cost and requirements perspective."
"It's made searching for data easier. Users like it. We're still in the migration process, but overall, it's a lot easier to use."
"Index manager is most valuable because we do not have to bother about internal storage. It is all managed by the Splunk team."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform has reduced our mean time to resolve. It has easily saved 20 to 30 minutes every time someone gets locked out. We get 10 or 15 instances per day where people get locked out. It definitely saves a few hours per day."
"This is a complete log reporting tool."
"he cloud performance is good."
"Syslog-ng has built-in features that we can use to create alerts for a SIEM solution. It isn't a true SIEM solution, but it's sufficient for the time being."
"Syslog-ng provides easy access to all my logs. It helps me show managers and other clients precisely where an incident occurred. I also like it because you can integrate syslog-ng with multiple solutions to allow real-time monitoring."
"The ability to extract and store the logs is the most valuable feature of syslog-ng."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the use of compound search for searching logs at a specific time, by a specific user, or specific behavior."
"Syslog-ng has a separate config file in addition to the core configuration."
"Splunk Cloud could improve by having pre-defined templates. It has very good design views, but there is no predefined template. You have to define your own. If they could add predefined templates for different use cases."
"The on-premises version of Splunk includes all the integrations, while the Cloud platform lacks certain integrations and is limited in terms of the number of supported apps."
"Splunk Cloud Platform should improve its integrations and consider multiple integrations or direct integration with other platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS."
"The only thing I would say is an issue is the cost. It matches other products. The costs can be justified for the value that we gain. The entire threat analysis stack should come in a bundle. If the cost was matchable with other products I think Splunk would pick up in the market."
"It needs to mature; it's just getting established in the industry on a wider scale."
"The pricing model makes the product costly."
"From an enterprise standpoint, we are more limited in terms of what data we can export and how we can present it."
"Some of the implementation is challenging. They're not very proxy-aware."
"There is room for improvement in terms of observability."
"The filtering has room for improvement."
"It's hard to find people who know how to use syslog-ng. I often find problems with configurations, and solutions aren't integrated correctly with syslog-ng. For example, there might be data with extra decimals, or the collector agents are incorrectly named. It isn't a problem with the solution; it's a lack of professionals."
"There is always the potential for additional integration and protocol extensions."
"Syslog-ng has built-in features that we can use to create alerts for a SIEM solution. It isn't a true SIEM solution, but it's sufficient for the time being."
Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 34 reviews while syslog-ng is ranked 17th in Log Management with 5 reviews. Splunk Cloud Platform is rated 8.0, while syslog-ng is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". On the other hand, the top reviewer of syslog-ng writes "It's a user-friendly open-source solution that can replace or augment a commercial product in some cases". Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Check Point Security Management, AppInsights and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, whereas syslog-ng is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Graylog, Grafana Loki, Logstash and Elastic Security. See our Splunk Cloud Platform vs. syslog-ng report.
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