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Evolven vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 5, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Evolven
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
16th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
303
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 28.1%, down from 35.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

MF
Provides visualization of risk levels. However, alerting needs improvement.
Our primary use case is operational analytics. It gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before. It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency. Provides visualization of risk levels. Alerting needs improvement. Less than one year.
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log analysis
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has also a query language in which they search their log files, but once you have identified the log file that you want to use for further security correlation, you want to very quickly transport that into your SIEM tool, such as Microsoft Sentinel. That is something that Splunk could make a little bit less painful because it is a lot of effort to find that log file and forward it. An API with Microsoft Sentinel or a similar SIEM tool would be a good idea.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It provides visualization of risk levels."
"It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency."
"Good for log collection and log management."
"Correlation search, in general, is valuable because it allows us to search multiple data sources easily."
"Splunk's interface is user-friendly, and it has apps and add-ons for most applications. We can easily normalize the data to make it readable and understand the logs. We easily get all the field extractions and enrichment done by using the apps and add-ons. This helps us understand the application logs because the raw data is useless unless we extract some useful information from it. These add-ons make it so much easier."
"You can use it to gather syslog messages from anything."
"The product is adept at log mining."
"Splunk is user-friendly. We can easily customize the monitoring script."
"Correlating data across different systems via one interface will allow you to know your environment or identify incident data in ways you never imagined."
"Splunk setup is easy and straightforward. ​"
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"Free-floating panels in the dashboards are like a glass table."
"Splunk's reporting functionality would benefit from enhanced customization capabilities, allowing users to tailor reports to their specific needs for better data visualization and analysis."
"Most of my interaction is with the user community, which is how Splunk wants it. When I need help, that community is very hit or miss."
"Its performance can be better. Sometimes, it takes longer when we do queries."
"The glass table feature does not perform as expected."
"The user access control could be much more granular, so that the admins can control r/w/x access for specific features of the product like dashboards, etc."
"We are waiting for Dashboard Studio to mature a little bit more. There are some things that we are using with Classic Dashboards which have not yet made it to Dashboard Studio. We are waiting for that."
"Could be more user friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Most people share the same thought that the ingestion rates can get pretty pricey. There is a lot of work we do to curate the data that we send to Splunk so that it is not too noisy or too expensive."
"I believe there is room for improvement in reducing costs, particularly in the financial aspect, as Splunk tends to be pricier compared to other options."
"It can be expensive, especially the licensing costs. However, there is added value in what it can do, not just log aggregation."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive. I would rate the cost an eight out of ten with ten being the most expensive."
"I would highly recommend anyone evaluating this option to download the free trial which allows for the ingestion of 500MB of data per day in order to get a feel for what Splunk does at its core. It will get pricey once your ingestion rates start to sky rocket, but I would consider it expensive given the amount of information that it allows you to analyze and react on straight out-of-the-box."
"Our ROI is high."
"I have no opinion on pricing."
"Although Splunk is an expensive product, it is designed to be utilized across your organization in order to maximize your ROI and lower your TCO."
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Computer Software Company
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Government
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Manufacturing Company
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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?
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