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Evolven vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 19, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Evolven
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
18th
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
7.3
Number of Reviews
369
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 20.8%, down from 27.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security20.8%
Evolven0.6%
Other78.6%
IT Operations Analytics
 

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.
Kyle Vernham - PeerSpot reviewer
Built-in searches and unified data access streamline alert investigation and boosts analyst efficiency
The two features I appreciate the most in Splunk Enterprise Security are the built-in searches, which have been very easy for us to get started with right out of the box, and the fact that it accesses all of our other systems. You can access it as a pane of glass rather than having to search individually. We also have the option to compare our analysts from our service to service. Splunk Enterprise Security helps our SOC team prioritize and investigate high-fidelity alerts more effectively by providing a more in-depth look and the ability to access a lot more of our data. Instead of jumping from several segmented systems, it allows us to have everything brought together in one place. For example, you have to move from our purview to our build system and to Splunk Enterprise Security, and it enables us to streamline that process. The built-in features of Splunk Enterprise Security, which we recently procured, have given us a good starting point and demonstrated the value of the product, providing an easy way to sell it to our company. The ease of getting everything into our purview helps us, and it serves as a good start for the investigation part in one location rather than what we usually have, which is jumping from system to system to system. Splunk Enterprise Security plays a role in our company's strategy to combat insider threats and advanced persistent threats by currently being in its technical test phase. We are still rolling it out, and it should help us find any insider threats based on information that our policy states should not be present in our system. Splunk Enterprise Security's risk-based alerting (RBA) has impacted our alert volume and analyst productivity because we've got many different systems feeding into it. However, it has helped to make it easier for our analysts to go through a set of events rather than 100 alerts. RBA allows us to streamline the process and customize it for our analysts. When it comes to leveraging Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards and visualizations to communicate security posture to executives, it's pretty straightforward for any type of information. The visualization is easy to understand, but I haven't had any direct conversations with our executives.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency."
"It provides visualization of risk levels."
"It allows the centralization of data and makes possible new sorts of correlations that were previously impossible using traditional SIEMs such as ArcSight or QRadar."
"There are lots of free learning materials on their website."
"Splunk helps us be more proactive. We can take predictive action to identify and block threats so that nothing harmful gets into the system."
"The benefits my company has seen from the use of Splunk Enterprise Security revolve around the speed of detection it offers."
"If you want to understand how it can analyze or find out incidents, the visibility is good."
"Now with Splunk Enterprise Security, we have everything in one place—the notables are created automatically, but they can also create their own notables based on the investigation, which improved and reduced about 50% of the manual work that was done before versus what we are doing now."
"Splunk Enterprise Security helped us with faster detection of threats."
"Deployment server for deploying changes in one go."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"The product's price may be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There is another new term called benign positives. It is better to clearly identify each definition of those terms since it has not been popular in the industry, and everyone needs to be aware of those things."
"The correlation of events is the most significant challenge I face when using Splunk Enterprise Security for advanced threat detection."
"It works as intended for us, and we are getting everything that we need out of it. If anything, its initial setup can be improved a bit."
"The documentation is in definite need of improvement."
"It can be tough to determine if you are getting all of the value out of your investment at times."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"I think we recently switched to the SVC pricing compared to the ingest pricing."
"This product could use better pricing in general."
"It is pretty straightforward and based on the sizing. If I compare it with other competitors, it makes sense."
"Regarding the product's pricing, I think it has always been difficult to have a conversation with Splunk."
"Licensing is a yearly, one-time cost."
"It is expensive, but it is a good tool. It is worth the cost."
"The price of this solution is expensive. However, it has great features. If you want a great solution you need to pay a price matching the features."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

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Small Business110
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise257
 

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