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Palantir Foundry vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 5, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Palantir Foundry
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
8th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (19th), Supply Chain Analytics (1st), Cloud Data Integration (14th), Data Migration Appliances (4th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data and Analytics Service Providers (1st)
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 February 2025, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Palantir Foundry is 4.2%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 28.1%, down from 35.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Rama Subba Reddy Thavva - PeerSpot reviewer
A low-code/no-code platform with a user-friendly UI
We couldn't implement or use some of the latest functionalities, like Spark. Palantir Foundry is scalable, but it is costly compared to other cloud providers. The solution is more suitable for small and medium businesses. It might be difficult for large enterprises. I rate the solution’s scalability a seven out of ten.
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

"Great features available in one tool."
"The interface is really user-friendly."
"The ease of use is my favorite feature. We're able to build different models and projects or combine different projects to build one use case."
"The solution provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."
"The data lineage is great."
"The virtualization tool is useful."
"The security is also excellent. It's highly granular, so the admins have a high degree of control, and there are many levels of security. That worked well. You won't have an EDC unless you put everything onto the platform because it is its own isolated thing."
"It's scalable."
"You can run reports against multiple devices at the same time. You are able to troubleshoot a single application on a thousand servers. You can do this with a single query, since it is very easy to do."
"The fact that Splunk is a platform and not just a SIEM solution is a key benefit."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the criticality of alerts."
"The varied prebuilt feature is the most valuable because it ensures that we have complete coverage over all of the key questions."
"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."
"The Splunk user community and forum are most valuable."
"The ability to digest any information and then correlate it in accordance with what you need is valuable. The ability to connect to pretty much everything and bring the information in the same format is also valuable. On top of that, we can use their language in order to create and customize the dashboards, correlations, or analytics that we want to incorporate."
"The connections to the database are very good and updating the data files is simple to do. The dashboards are useful and user-friendly."
 

Cons

"It would be helpful to build applications based on Azure functions or web apps in Palantir Foundry."
"The solution's visualization and analysis could be improved."
"Compared to other hyperscalers, Palantir Foundry is complex and not so user-intuitive."
"The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages. Informatica EDC can easily capture and report it because it talks to the metadata. This is generated across those various staging points."
"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."
"It requires a lot of manual work and is very time-consuming to get to a functional point."
"The workflow could be improved."
"They do not have a data center in Europe, and we have lots of personally identifiable information in our dataset that needs to be hosted by a third-party data center like Amazon or Microsoft Azure."
"While scheduled reports can be embedded, Splunk dashboard can not be embedded directly without enabling cross origin."
"I'd love to see more integrations, which is one of the primary points of the key node with Splunk Enterprise Security."
"While Splunkbase (the app repository) has a lot of great content, some apps are terribly old and could stand to be updated or purged."
"I feel the solution to be too slow."
"Sometimes, the data does not match what we're looking for, or the tool contains incorrect data."
"Splunk's implementation process for managing multiple indexes can be complex, especially when dealing with a large number of components."
"The historical data extraction needs improvement. I would like the capability of taking data and having it trend longer."
"Splunk should have more regional data centers in the Middle East."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."
"It's expensive."
"The solution’s pricing is high."
"Palantir Foundry has different pricing models that can be negotiated."
"Splunk has always been on the expensive side."
"I believe that Splunk Enterprise Security is worth the price, but it is expensive."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is not at all cost-friendly to be deployed in very small enterprises like start-ups."
"The license for Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive."
"Expensive compared to other options."
"As a team, we prefer the old pricing model with a perpetual license. We are still evaluating the whole subscription-based model."
"While licensing can be a concern, there are ways to reduce the licensing costs including filtering some events."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is priced lower than competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Palantir Foundry?
Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration.
What needs improvement with Palantir Foundry?
The solution’s data security could be improved. We cannot use many Python packages with the solution. We were able to use only a few compatible Python packages.
What is your primary use case for Palantir Foundry?
Our use cases are mostly related to data analytics. We are building some dashboards and ETL pipelines on the Palantir side. Palantir Foundry is a low-code/no-code platform with a user-friendly UI. ...
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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Sample Customers

Merck KGaA, Airbus, Ferrari,United States Intelligence Community, United States Department of Defense
Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
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