We performed a comparison between Prometheus 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."The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"Out-of-the-box, it seems very powerful."
"It has the ability to correlate data, analyze and review it."
"We can do things in minutes instead of days."
"The visibility is amazing with easy dashboard creation."
"The most valuable features are the logs, which allow us to identify what happened and who interacted with the web repository."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Enterprise Security is website activity monitoring."
"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"
"Splunk would be my choice for the presentation layer because it comes with inbuilt reports and a dashboard that you can customize."
"Prometheus can be initially difficult for users since it has its query language, PromQL. The minimalistic interface is complicated to understand. They need to improve their interface so that users who don't know PromQL can also use it. You can only leverage the tool when you know PromQL."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"There isn’t much clarity regarding the issues that happen at the server end. It is a push model and from the client’s point of view, it needs to look better and solve remote issues."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"The only thing which can be improved is that they are too subjective on whom their Splunk4Good initiative can be applied. They market it as you only need to be a nonprofit, but there is more to it."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"It is a good product, but the Achilles heel for a lot of organizations is the cost model for it because it gets expensive. That's because the model is based on how much data it processes a day, which can be prohibitive, especially if you have a lot of data. A lot of customers may not be ready for the sticker shock on how to fully leverage the product. I realized that the reason for that is that when it was originally designed, it was kind of like a big data modeling application. If they want to have a bigger customer base, they can come out with subsets of their product that are focused on specific things and have different pricing models. It may help with the cost."
"Given the ever-increasing number of threats, I would like Splunk to update its threat signatures more frequently."
"Splunk Enterprise Security could improve in automation, flexibility, and providing more content out of the box."
"This is not really a monitoring solution."
"We find that the maintenance process could be a lot better."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". 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 ". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Honeycomb.io, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Prometheus vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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