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Panther vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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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

Panther
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (41st), AI Data Analysis (26th)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (3rd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Panther and Splunk Cloud Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Panther is designed for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
Splunk Cloud Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.6% since last year.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Panther1.0%
Splunk Enterprise Security7.2%
Wazuh5.8%
Other86.0%
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.0%
Tableau Enterprise11.0%
Domo5.7%
Other82.3%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

RT
Infosec Analyst at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Detection capabilities and helpful support team enhance log analysis and integration flexibility
I find Panther's detection capabilities and integrations to be highly valuable. It allows integration with anything as long as I am willing to write detections, and their team is very helpful. I find its log analysis capabilities valuable. It enables me to filter down to individual roles in AWS, and if I am skilled at SQL queries, I can query anything. The infrastructure as code feature allows me to use Git repositories to manage detections and import detections from other Git repositories.
Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data engineer at Cognizant
Centralized logs have transformed payment issue troubleshooting and now streamline incident resolution
Splunk Cloud Platform holds only three months' worth of data. If you try to search for more than three months or prior to three months, it wouldn't store the values because the data stores a large number of data. I believe that's the limit for us. I believe having flexible memory would ease us because whenever we face an incident, if we want to look for this occurrence or root cause, if it is prior to three months, we wouldn't have proper logs to check. I wish it would take a little less time and not search through unnecessary things. Of course, querying depends on the developer's knowledge, but storage is also an issue because I feel memory is not flexible enough. If we try to increase our memory, it will charge us a considerable amount of money.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I find Panther's detection capabilities and integrations to be highly valuable."
"Splunk Cloud's most valuable features are log aggregations, dashboarding, business management, reporting, and business controls. Additionally, it has awesome indexing and the solution is always improving"
"There is definitely the ease of the infrastructure administration. It frees up a lot of time."
"Splunk Cloud Platform has greatly improved my daily operations through enhanced integration with third-party tools."
"In an enterprise, you need a universal or heavy forwarder. If you don't have that, you need an HSE token or API request call and all the different components. In Splunk Cloud, you just have one instance to search all the data in your index. You don't need to manage it because Splunk handles that."
"The most valuable feature is the SPL because without it we wouldn't be able to correlate and build our use cases and manage what we have for our data inside Splunk."
"We haven't had any limitations or problems connecting to our network devices."
"The Splunk search is powerful compared to similar solutions, and we get millions of data points within seconds."
"Everything is maintained by the Splunk support team. Users do not have to maintain any physical servers. They do not have to maintain indexes and searches. It reduces a lot of work on the user side."
 

Cons

"The solution could be improved by providing more built-in integrations, which would reduce the need for me to build them myself."
"There can be more modules and more integration with other areas in the cloud and on-prem. I am not sure whether it includes network devices and things like that."
"The support from the Splunk team is generally good, but sometimes, there's a lack of coordination between our account reps and the hands-on technical people. This misalignment can lead to issues with getting what we need done and what is happening."
"Splunk support isn't so great. It takes a lot of time for them to respond."
"Splunk Cloud Platform should have better integrations with its suite of tools."
"In my opinion, there is room for improvement, as we used to raise multiple issues via the process, but they pick them up slowly, and the response times are not as prompt as we would like."
"We face occasional downtime issues where when we try to scale up, we face a considerable amount of challenges."
"The only thing I would say is an issue is the cost. It matches other products. The costs can be justified for the value that we gain. The entire threat analysis stack should come in a bundle. If the cost was matchable with other products I think Splunk would pick up in the market."
"In the case of knowledge objects, even a Splunk admin does not have access to delete them. If we want to remove a knowledge object, we need to contact Splunk support and raise a case. After that, they delete it. They should give us access to delete knowledge objects."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"The price is something that people complain about."
"The pricing was negotiated through Trustwave and for our first contract in three years, we got a good deal."
"Currently, we have the ingest-based license. They are offering SVC-based licenses as well, but I am not a fan of SVC-based licensing. At the end of the day, I want to predict my budget and how much I am going to pay to the vendor so that I can plan my yearly budget."
"We were involved in the renewal process, and our organization does reviews of all our partnerships that we have every two to three years to ensure they are meeting our needs, there isn't a better solution out there, and we won't save money by going somewhere else."
"There are additional features that you would need to purchase depending on your use case."
"My company has a license for Splunk Cloud Platform. My company also has a license for Splunk Enterprise."
"As far as the pricing goes, it was what was expected. It is a premium product. There were no surprises there."
"The lack of transparency around the SVC licensing makes it difficult to explain the costs to our clients."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Computer Software Company
15%
Construction Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise50
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Panther?
I find the pricing to be reasonable, although I can't recall the exact cost.
What needs improvement with Panther?
The solution could be improved by providing more built-in integrations, which would reduce the need for me to build them myself.
What is your primary use case for Panther?
We use Panther ( /products/panther-reviews ) for our SIEM ( /categories/security-information-and-event-management-siem ) solution. It is used for aggregating logs and analyzing user activities. We ...
What do you like most about Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
I don't see any new requirements in terms of improvements for Splunk Cloud Platform at this time. Splunk's dashboarding, reporting, and visualizations are evolving at a larger scale with the new Sp...
 

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