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Hubble vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Hubble
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Business Performance Management (31st), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (12th), Data Visualization (29th), Financial Close Software (23rd)
Splunk Enterprise Security
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), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Hubble and Splunk Enterprise Security aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Hubble is designed for Business Performance Management and holds a mindshare of 0.3%, up 0.3% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 10.8% mindshare, down 14.6% since last year.
Business Performance Management
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

PG
Excellent for budgeting and forecasting, but long-term it will no longer be developed or supported
The fact that in a few years' time it is no longer going to be supported is a big concern. Therefore, I would advise against Hubble. Additionally, I think we underestimated the time for deployment, we thought it would be a few months and it took much longer than expected because the consultants didn't understand our process in detail before committing to the process. On a scale of one to ten, I would give Hubble a seven.
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

"The most valuable features are both its budgeting and forecasting."
"Our clients use the solution to find any threats or vulnerabilities inside their environment."
"The most valuable features for us include its robust log management capabilities, which allow us to efficiently handle and retain logs for extended periods as needed."
"Splunk's strength lies in its single-page view."
"The ability to view all of these different logs, then drilling down into specific times or into specific data sources, has proved to be the greatest aspect in decreasing our troubleshooting overhead time."
"The varied prebuilt feature is the most valuable because it ensures that we have complete coverage over all of the key questions."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Enterprise Security is website activity monitoring."
"The site is constantly up, and it's been really easy to adjust the data."
 

Cons

"We have been advised by the owners that the budgeting tool is no longer going to be supported with future development, so my recommendation would be for them to continue to invest in development. Otherwise, at some point we will have to migrate to another technology."
"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."
"For on-premise, it's more about optimization. With such a heavy byte scale of data that we are operating on, the search for disparate data sometimes takes about a minute. This is understandable considering the amount of data that we are pumping into it. The only optimization that I recommend is better sharding, when it comes to Splunk, so that data retrieval can be faster."
"AngularJS/ReactJS inclusion could be made easier in GUI."
"The solution could improve by increasing the performance. We have run into problems when large amounts of data are processed."
"Splunk is very expensive. The license is based on the volume of the logs ingested. I was responsible for managing the contract with our service integrator. I don't know the precise details of the competing solution, but I have heard that Splunk is more expensive than others. I don't know what the going rate is on the market, but I think there are at least two competitors that are less expensive. We have experienced a few issues with our service providers in terms of log filtering and ingestion, so we continue to pay a bit more per day for our logs."
"In terms of training. I find that some things about Splunk aren't well-explained. I see features and then go to the website but don't find good explanations."
"It would be nice if they had a wizard to construct searches, including more complex searches that include math or statistics."
"They could offer pre-built search queries for everyday use cases like brute force attacks, DDoS attacks, and other security threats."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Licensing is a yearly, one-time cost."
"Free Splunk license for PoCs on personal machines and the ability to scale the PoC to an enterprise level app."
"I think that most of the log analytics solutions are expensive and I'm not sure if it's worth it."
"Splunk ES is quite expensive compared to some products on the market."
"Further reductions would be fantastic, and I believe that more and more people would flock to it."
"Truly evaluate the data you want to ingest and go slow. Pulling in data that can provide no use to your mission only wastes data against your license."
"I am fine with the licensing, but in terms of the cost, it is expensive for the data that we have. We have an open discussion with our account rep about this."
"Splunk is really expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
 

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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...
 

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