SolarWinds AppOptics vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

SolarWinds AppOptics
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (43rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (51st), Cloud Monitoring Software (33rd)
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 SolarWinds AppOptics is 0.6% and it increased by 100.7% 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
Unique Categories:
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
0.4%
Cloud Monitoring Software
0.5%
Log Management
17.6%
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
13.7%
 

Featured Reviews

PR
Oct 19, 2022
Long term stability, comprehensive option, with reasonable pricing
SolarWinds AppOptics does far more than what an individual may realize. It is not just a SIEM tool I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management. I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market. I have been working with…
AK
May 12, 2024
Flexible licensing, good support, and helpful for responding quickly to an event
Splunk Enterprise Security helps with application events. It provides end-to-end visibility into our environment which is most important for us. It reduces the time to react to an event. Splunk Enterprise Security has helped improve our organization’s ability to ingest and normalize data. It can help identify and solve problems in real-time, but we have mainly utilized it for post-identification correction. It provides us with the relevant context to help guide our investigations. It is easier for developers to take action once an anomaly is detected. We have been leveraging Splunk dashboards for that. Splunk Enterprise Security has helped speed up our security investigations, but I do not have the metrics. They are a good partner for Google Cloud. It provides great visibility, threat detection, and proactive mitigation of risks for our mutual consumers.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Alerts when a server is malfunctioning, monitors external attacks, and takes action to stop spreading viruses."
"The initial setup isn't overly complex."
"Visualizations are the best way to understand deviation techniques from the norm."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk is the management and built-in workflows."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Its usability is the best part. It is easy for our developers to use if they want to search their logs, etc."
"The ability to ingest any data and display it in a way that anyone can understand."
"Splunk can extract all kinds of data. There's no limitation on what kind of structured and unstructured data one needs to extract — it can access any kind of data, including machine-generated data."
 

Cons

"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"Enterprise security: Splunk must work on clarifying the solution to customers and explain how to gain more from it."
"This is not really a monitoring solution."
"It would be nice if they had a wizard to construct searches, including more complex searches that include math or statistics."
"Splunk can improve its third-party device application plugins."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"It is a hugely complicated product."
"I would like the ability to view logs for specific instances and not have to pull the logs for the entire Cloud environment in Splunk."
"When you get into large amounts of data, Splunk can get pretty slow. This is the same on-premise or AWS, it doesn't matter. The way that they handle large data sets could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Mostly, it's a perpetual license. We don't have any customers using the subscription right now—it's mostly a perpetual license that the customers purchase. The licensing is based on the number of elements, whereas other solutions are node-based."
"Since it's a negotiable rate, I would rate the pricing as a five out of five."
"I believe the current licensing cost is reasonable."
"We have had a reduction in the time it takes to resolve issues and correlate what has failed."
"While some clients find the cost of Splunk Enterprise Security to be on the higher end, its pricing is comparable to other SIEM solutions."
"Our customers often complain that the price of Splunk is too high."
"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."
"We have seen ROI and improvements as we have continued to use the product, but they are more reactive."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive. I would rate the cost an eight out of ten with ten being the most expensive."
"The subscription is monthly."
"Free Splunk license for PoCs on personal machines and the ability to scale the PoC to an enterprise level app."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
62%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
Government
5%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with SolarWinds AppOptics?
The solution should be more user-friendly.
What is your primary use case for SolarWinds AppOptics?
I used the solution for monitoring servers and network equipment.
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...
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 ...
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...
 

Also Known As

AppOptics, SolarWinds TraceView, Librato
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TraxoCovea Insurance BTE TechnologyDatarista
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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