We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios XI is customization. We can customize based on our requirements. We can do modifications and implement a lot of scripts. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need."
"The ability to manage large amounts of generated data and to protect all devices from unauthorized use are the most valuable features."
"It has quite extensive support in terms of integration. If you want to do anything, there are tools for that."
"Internal tracking is helpful because we do not like to deal with multiple ticketing systems, and I am not a fan of ServiceNow. We are able to keep everything internal and utilize Enterprise Security."
"We can quickly search for almost anything across many log sources in seconds."
"The product provides visibility and enables us to correlate data and generate alerts."
"The technical support has been very good. They are very responsive and have been helpful."
"Speeds up root cause analysis and can help identify issues that your organization never realized were occurring."
"With good domain knowledge, one can build almost anything. If you throw in Alert Manager or an integration with ServiceNow. Then, you have your own SIEM"
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
"The configuration had a bit of a learning curve."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
"The product could be cheaper."
"Splunk is not very user-friendly. It has a complex architecture in comparison to other solutions on the market."
"Splunk can be an expensive solution. Technical support could be improved as well."
"It is a challenge to manage the environment in such a way, that one’s log, even with the bandwidth license, isn’t exceeded."
"I love the solution, but I would like to see more accessibility to the machine-learning capabilities that are sprinkled around Splunk."
"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."
Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". 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 ". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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