We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"It is an efficient solution."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"It is user-friendly. It is more effective than other solutions. The support and help for troubleshooting and the documentation from Splunk make it very effective."
"I like Splunk's data aggregation and search capabilities."
"The solution has plenty of features that are good."
"I am satisfied with the support."
"The ability to quickly search logs, performance data, and other inputs has helped tremendously with troubleshooting."
"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."
"It gives us good visibility into multiple environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid; irrespective of platform."
"Splunk allows us to customize processing and dashboards, which helps us take care of our customers' needs."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"There isn’t much clarity regarding the issues that happen at the server end. It is a push model and from the client’s point of view, it needs to look better and solve remote issues."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"The scalability must be improved."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Free-floating panels in the dashboards are like a glass table."
"The analytics of Splunk could be improved."
"I would like some additional AI capabilities to provide additional information about things going wrong and things going well."
"Some of the terminology can be confusing, even for seasoned vets. Renaming components at this point would be a serious undertaking. However, it might be beneficial in the long run."
"Professional support is great, but too expensive."
"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."
"Writing queries is a bit complicated sometimes."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". 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 ". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Honeycomb.io, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Prometheus vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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