We performed a comparison between Change Auditor for Windows File Servers and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."The solution's most valuable aspect is that it can be fully integrated with Microsoft solutions and it doesn't impact the productivity order."
"In terms of features, the querying is great."
"Splunk has give us the capability to easily track problems and their status."
"Splunk has improved our operations by giving us access to more information and allowing us to deploy more use cases."
"It definitely does help with both auditing and as well as regular monitoring. SOC does more monitoring, but ES also gives you other features that are auditing-related. The dashboards are also beneficial."
"Speeds up root cause analysis and can help identify issues that your organization never realized were occurring."
"We have found all the features useful. However, the dashboarding and logging have been very helpful. Additionally, the log analysis does a great job."
"Recently, Splunk upgraded to version 9.0.02, which includes excellent data dashboards and visualization effects."
"The solution helped reduce our alert volume."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards are a key asset."
"The pricing could be improved. It needs to be reduced."
"The customer service and support could improve their approach to questioning issues. They tend to ask questions one at a time, which creates a lot of back-and-forth communication."
"Splunk's ability to analyze malicious activities scores an 8 out of 10, but there's room for improvement. By analyzing emerging patterns, Splunk could identify and predict potential threats more effectively."
"The product's price may be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"A problem that we had recently had was we licensed it based on how much data you upload to them every day. Something changed in one our applications, and it started generating three to four times as many logs and. So now, we are trying to assemble something with parts of the Splunk API to warn ourselves, then turn it off and throttle it back more. However it would be better if they had something systematically built into the product that if you're getting close to your license, then to shut things down."
"Spam has different plugins but by default, the logs are not organized, it shows that there are roll-ups that are out of the box. I saw many plugins that can help improve or extend Splunk's functionality but I haven't tried any of them."
"Splunk can improve its third-party device application plugins."
"Make it easier to include roles and user controls, as it is horrible now."
"Many of my clients want to get better at Splunk, but they're afraid of using the tool because they feel it's too complex for them."
"Splunk should have more regional data centers in the Middle East."
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Change Auditor for Windows File Servers is ranked 55th in Log Management with 2 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 240 reviews. Change Auditor for Windows File Servers is rated 9.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Change Auditor for Windows File Servers writes "Provides granular queries of security logs and real-time alerting helps me mitigate risks". 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 ". Change Auditor for Windows File Servers is most compared with Quest InTrust, Wazuh and IBM Security QRadar, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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