We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
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"I like the Splunk dashboard and search engine."
"The most useful feature for me is the ability to create different kinds of alerts and set a different kind of denominator that will capture the real event. That is helpful for a power user like me."
"The reporting aspect is good and it does what I need it to do."
"Three features stand out for me: the SDK for writing Python, the customizable and adaptable diagnostic dashboard, and the optimizer for collecting data."
"It has a rapid response search environment in the event of an incident."
"The breadth of the data sources that Splunk can ingest data from is broad and deep and it does an exemplary job at handling structured data."
"Its dashboard is valuable. If you have a good knowledge of how to create a dashboard, you can create any dashboard related to cybersecurity. If fine-tuned, the alarms that are triggered for instant review are also very valuable and useful."
"Our clients are easily able to modify and evolve their implementations."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"It could be even more automated."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"It could be more stable."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
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"The CIM model is the method Splunk uses to normalize data and categorize its important parts, but it is quite complex."
"Certain sections of the developer documentation could use some updating and clarification."
"The security can be improved."
"If possible, we would like to have not only a log monitoring system but a network monitoring feature in this solution as well."
"The cluster environment should be improved. We have a cluster. In the Splunk cluster environment, in the case of heavy searches and heavy load, the Splunk cluster goes down, and we have to put it in the maintenance mode to get it back. We are not able to find the actual culprit for this issue. I know that cluster has RF and SF, but it has been down so many times. There should be something in Splunk to help users to find the reason and the solution for such issues."
"We will receive alerts only for the administrators and deployment servers, but not for all servers."
"The product was difficult to back up the first time."
"Missing capability for audio/video and image processing."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 25th in Log Management with 10 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 246 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". 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 ". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Sentry, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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