OpenText SiteScope vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

OpenText SiteScope

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Splunk Enterprise Security

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between OpenText SiteScope and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed OpenText SiteScope vs. Splunk Enterprise Security Report (Updated: May 2023).

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OpenText SiteScope vs. Splunk Enterprise Security

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText SiteScope

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (27th)

Splunk Enterprise Security

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

255

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the market share of OpenText SiteScope is 0.2% and it decreased by 56.0% compared to the previous year. The market share of Splunk Enterprise Security is 2.8% and it decreased by 48.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Log Management

17.6%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

13.7%

Featured Reviews

John Boake

Senior monitoring engineer at Fiserv

Jul 11, 2022

We can query from a single location and nest all monitors within folders, but we should be able to manage all servers without having to log on to different servers and data centers

We have four or five data centers around North America where we have it deployed into a single or a two-server primary backup type of deployment. All those are made available under a single GUI provided by Micro Focus that allows you to put them all together. A room for improvement would be an appliance or a server that would manage all of our other servers so that I don't have to remember to log on to all different servers and data centers. I could manage them from a single location. We've had it for quite a while, and I've never done an upgrade on it, but from what I understand, the upgrades are not as straightforward as you would think. I know that we've run into some issues related to porting the database through different versions. So, it's a slow slog. The process has been longer than expected. I don't like its licensing because you have to license it by individual licenses.

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Yu Kuan

Information Technology Consultant at Paul G. Allen Building

May 8, 2024

Monitors the network and provides easy visibility into problems

The solution's most valuable feature is the dashboard, which allows us to see everything on the same page and provides easy visibility into problems. Splunk Enterprise Security has helped us find security events in our on-premises environment. It has helped improve our organization's ability to ingest and normalize data. Splunk does a good job of identifying and solving problems in real-time. We have reduce our alert volume by 80%. The solution provides relevant context to help guide our investigations. Splunk provides pretty detailed information. Based on that information, we can assign it to different teams. It has helped speed up our security investigations by 40%. Splunk Enterprise Security has helped reduce our mean time to resolve. In most cases, we're able to solve issues in less than 45 minutes.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring."

"It's integrated with different monitoring tools, such as AppDynamics."

"Has a simple setup. It can be up and running within hours."

"The product's ability to monitor systems and applications and send alerts and create support tickets are the most valuable features of the product."

"Our experiences with Micro Focus SiteScope have been mostly positive as we can easily work with multiple monitors and different types of monitors pretty quickly. There are a lot of out-of-the-box solutions for us through Micro Focus SiteScope, so we don't have to do that much custom coding for the vast majority of requests that we get for monitoring. There are some limitations that we've run into and some problems every once in a while, but they've been relatively minor."

"Simple deployment: The deployment uses protocols such as NetBios, SSH, WMI, SNMP, which means that any device with any of these protocols will be monitored."

"It's easy to template standard monitoring configurations, and automate monitoring configuration."

"The Monitor Templates functionality allowed us to spin up monitoring with .csv files pretty easily."

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"Splunk UBA is useful for fraud detection and for detection of APTs, advanced persistent threats."

"Splunk Enterprise Security is able to process a huge amount of data without any issues."

"There are lots of free learning materials on their website."

"The feature that I have found most valuable with Splunk is the ability to sift through a bunch of data very quickly."

"It is easy to use in any environment."

"Out-of-the-box, it seems very powerful."

"Splunk is stable, and this is why many customers want it."

"Integrity with many vendors: This simplifies the implementation and integration with different devices"

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Cons

"SiteScope isn't productive if you want to monitor RAM or if you want to monitor some URL."

"The graphs and dashboard in the solution are areas that need improvement."

"They have not kept up with browser security requirements or advances in GUIs, they switched to a corruptible database architecture instead of text config files."

"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."

"They need to offer better technical support, which, right now, is not helpful or responsive."

"It may lack some features other products in the category have like more detailed transaction tracking."

"They should provide more templates for new vendor devices."

"We'd like a uniform interface for monitoring our system, since that's the purpose of SiteScope."

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"It would be good if the solution had some kind of copilot to automate or help write correlation searches."

"The search could be improved. Now, it is a bit difficult to write search queries because they become quite long, then maintaining those long search queries is a quite challenging."

"Some of the search functions can be better. There has been a lot of talk at the conference about the update of SPL before each iteration. That will be a lot of help."

"Splunk is not very user-friendly. It has a complex architecture in comparison to other solutions on the market."

"It will be helpful for customers if they can create some real-world cases, and we can find a case study to align with. I know that Splunk has tremendous potential. We only include a tiny piece of it. There is a lot of stuff that we need to learn. If Splunk can provide more real-time examples, that will be helpful for customers."

"There is a definite learning curve to starting out."

"The presence of multiple layers creates a significant challenge for monitoring across cloud environments."

"We'd like to have the number of devices covered under the license to be increased."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten on a scale where one is cheap and ten is expensive."

"SiteScope licensing can be node based-or monitor-based. I would recommend for node-based licensing."

"The product's pricing should be lower since there are many open-source products that can do the same job with better user interfaces. The tool's pricing is yearly and you need to pay for support."

"The pricing or licensing cost for Micro Focus SiteScope is often bundled with other things, so the cost for each individual would be difficult to calculate. Pricing could be $2,000,000 a year. My company pays for technical support because it's part of the contract with Micro Focus SiteScope. You buy the licenses, but you're also paying for the support. With Nagios, it's much more bare-bones as far as paying for licenses and the software itself, and my company didn't have to use as much Nagios support yet in one or two years because there weren't too many problems using Nagios, and it's much more cost-effective, so that's one of the reasons why my company is migrating to Nagios from Micro Focus SiteScope."

"Licensing is a little steep."

"Depending on your requirements, there are two licensing models available. A simple point model, or an endpoint model."

"When Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope has introduced approximately eight years ago and there was not very much competition making the price high. However, when comparing the price of Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope now to other tools, they should reduce the price. It is similar to a legacy tool at this point."

"You have to pay for their "solution templates". Other tools do not charge you for knowledge-based monitoring bundles."

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"The solution is costly."

"I work on the technical side, so I don't know precise figures. However, I know that Splunk is a premium product, so it's somewhat costly. Still, you get a lot of unique features for the money."

"Splunk Enterprise Security is affordable."

"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive."

"The pricing is very complicated, and it is very pricey. You do require a lot of different licenses in order to get a comprehensive solution that is not just the SIEM solution."

"Our customers often complain that the price of Splunk is too high."

"Splunk is really expensive compared to all the other tools on the market, including Microsoft Sentinel."

"Setup cost is cheap: It is free, it is user-friendly, and it is fast."

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Comparison Review

Vinod Shankar

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at Deloitte & Touche

Feb 26, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope?

The most valuable feature of SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope?

I would rate the pricing of SiteScope as a five out of ten in terms of costliness. It is not overly expensive, but there is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness in some areas.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope?

In terms of improvement, OpenText SiteScop could become a better solution by adding more monitoring templates, like RedScope, to make it easier to track specific technologies. It should also improv...

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What SOC product do you recommend?

For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...

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What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?

It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...

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How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?

Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

Elastic Security vs Splunk Enterprise Security

Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Overview

OpenText SiteScope is an agentless monitoring program that tracks the availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures such as servers, network devices and services, applications and application components, virtualization software, operating systems, and other IT enterprise components.

OpenText SiteScope is an autonomous hybrid IT monitoring system that can monitor more than 100 different types of IT components in real time, thanks to a lightweight and highly customizable remote access architecture.

With OpenText SiteScope, IT teams can get the data they need to keep on top of problems and eliminate bottlenecks before they become major concerns.

OpenText SiteScope can reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by utilizing agentless technology, which eliminates the need to install and monitor agents on each box. Manual activities can be automated, and teams can save time and effort by using pre-packaged solution templates.

OpenText SiteScope Features

OpenText SiteScope has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Broad functionality built on expertise: OpenText SiteScope's architecture is scalable and supports a broad range of functions, including data collecting, alerting, event management, and reporting. Data is collected via remote access, which eliminates the need for agents to be deployed and maintained on monitored nodes. OpenText SiteScope connects to systems as a remote user via the central server, which supports JMX, SNMP, HTTP, SSH, NetBIOS, and WMI.

Monitors legacy and modern environments: OpenText SiteScope comes with more than 100 built-in monitors that track things like utilization, response time, use, and resource availability.
- Cloud: You can monitor virtual servers and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS-hosted applications can provide data to Amazon CloudWatch, which can be used for auto-scaling, reporting, and alerting.
- Virtualization: OpenText SiteScope supports VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Oracle/Sun virtualization technologies. Monitor Docker clusters, nodes, containers, and workloads.

Flexibility with configuration: By adding or deleting specific monitors, you can adapt to dynamic changes in data center configuration.

Templates for solutions: The template database is based on best practices for monitoring complex application settings with the least amount of time and effort. The templates include built-in domain experience of specialized monitors, default metrics and thresholds, proactive testing, and best practices for a given application or monitoring component.

Notifications, alerts, and reports: Email, SNMP traps, HTTP post, and database alerts are all supported. Administrators receive alerts based on defined thresholds and schedules.

Flexibility in user management: Using LDAP or an internal management solution, define group-level permissions, construct user roles, and assign security groups depending on role. Extensive WS (Web Service)-based API that automates numerous management situations without the need for the SiteScope UI.

Integrations with SiteScope: OpenText SiteScope not only offers a number of benefits on its own, but it can also be linked with a number of OpenText and third-party solutions, giving teams the ability to properly integrate their IT operations center.

Splunk Enterprise Security is a SIEM, log management, and IT operations analytics tool. The solution provides users with the ability to secure their information and manage their data in the cloud, data centers, or other applications. Splunk Enterprise Security also offers visibility from different areas, levels, and devices, rather than from a single system, thus, providing its users with flexibility. Splunk Enterprise Security can monitor data and analyze, detect, and prevent intrusions. This benefits users as it provides alerts to possible intrusions, helps users to be proactive, and reduces risk factors.

Full visibility across your environment

Break down data silos and gain actionable intelligence by ingesting data from multicloud and on-premises deployments. Get full visibility to quickly detect malicious threats in your environment.

Fast threat detection

Defend against threats with advanced security analytics, machine learning and threat intelligence that focus detection and provide high-fidelity alerts to shorten triage times and raise true positive rates.

Efficient investigations

Gather all the context you need and initiate flexible investigations with security analytics at your fingertips. The built-in open and extensible data platform boosts productivity and drives down fatigue.

Open and scalable

Built on an open and scalable data platform, you can stay agile in the face of evolving threats and business needs. Splunk meets you where you are on your cloud journey, and integrates across your data, tools and content.

Sample Customers

Vodafone Ireland, Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank

Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.

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