We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"I found a lot of valuable features in SolarWinds NPM, such as the customized application monitoring that allows you to customize any monitoring and script customization, and you also have the option to deploy and upgrade SolarWinds NPM online, which is very useful for my organization."
"Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its graphical interface and reports."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical user interface."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"Splunk's schema on demand is incredibly useful. I do not have to worry about what my users will need when we onboard their data."
"Great platform with user-friendly interface and GUI."
"The product has a good security posture."
"We have a more secure, robust environment, which keeps the harmful software out of the zone required."
"It is quite extensible. It is a platform that we can build our use instead of each case instead of each case being limited or restricted to each capability. This is probably the best feature."
"It is the best tool if you have a complex environment or if data ingestion is too huge."
"It has virtual visualization, and other products do not."
"I really like the user interface and how it works."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"They have had a rather large security breach in the past. It's cost some companies customers."
"Having more technical and support resources available in Saudi Arabia would be helpful."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"This product could improve by adding cloud monitoring. I want SolarWinds NPM to do much more integration, and have more involvement in cloud monitoring, like AWS or Google, or Azure. I feel like it requires lots of improvement for cloud monitoring in NPM."
"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."
"Over time I will have more requirements and I can foresee the solution could improve the search algorithm to run and output the data faster."
"While Splunkbase (the app repository) has a lot of great content, some apps are terribly old and could stand to be updated or purged."
"The GUI can be improved to include some of the capabilities that other BI solutions have."
". Having a trial version or more training on Splunk would be helpful."
"I feel the solution to be too slow."
"I think the tech support response time could be a bit better. Sometimes I need to wait more than 24 hours for a response to my tickets."
"I feel as though a major focus of upcoming releases should be set on Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, and I would enjoy to see more security focused add-ons and apps developed by the vendor."
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SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". 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 ". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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