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Quest InTrust vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 5, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Quest InTrust
Ranking in Log Management
60th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in Log Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
305
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Quest InTrust is 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 7.6%, down from 11.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

it_user700032 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical support is knowledgeable and quick to respond
It is used for compliance Gathering information Scheduling It needs to have better reporting.  More than five years. We have not encountered any issues with stability. We have not encountered any issues with scalability. I would rate the technical support very well as they are…
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

"​I would rate the technical support very well as they are knowledgeable and quick to respond​."
"Splunk has improved our operations by giving us access to more information and allowing us to deploy more use cases."
"The connections to the database are very good and updating the data files is simple to do. The dashboards are useful and user-friendly."
"The completeness of the solution is what we like the most."
"Splunk gives my clients the ability to bring multiple, disparate types of data together, then correlate and report on them."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the dashboard. It's very intuitive."
"It's the completeness of the solution that we like the most."
"My customer was integrated with many third-party credentials and other threat sources as well. The integration part was seamless and easy. The rates for allocating valuable information and IOCs from different sources are also good."
"The initial setup is simple, not very complex. Initial deployment takes around 10 to 15 minutes to set up the entire base for Splunk including all three tiers."
 

Cons

"​It needs to have better reporting. ​"
"​It was very complex. There was poor native correlation. ​"
"Resource usage can probably be described as an area with shortcomings in the product where improvements are required."
"The tool itself is very difficult to configure. It's great for its number of inputs, for the different types of systems devices, and things that it could collect information from. To actually make good use of it, you need a fairly dedicated team of people that have some reasonably good programming or modeling skills to be able to do the things that you need to do with it. Whereas a lot of the other tools are better packaged for that, and so require a lot less training and a lot less dedication."
"The product could be cheaper."
"The pricing can be better."
"The setup time is quite long."
"The configuration had a bit of a learning curve."
"Splunk Enterprise Security would benefit from a more robust rule engine to reduce false positives."
"I think the machine learning should be emphasized. Now, it's really important to analyze Big Data, data mining. A SIEM solution, like Splunk, needs an improved data mining solution, artificial intelligence."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Do a PoC. Make it detailed so it can help later."
"I am not personally involved with the pricing of the solution."
"The pricing is a little bit on the higher side, but looking at what Splunk provides us, it is reasonable."
"It is expensive, but it is a good tool. It is worth the cost."
"Splunk is priced higher than other solutions."
"Splunk has always been on the expensive side."
"As a team, we prefer the old pricing model with a perpetual license. We are still evaluating the whole subscription-based model."
"Splunk should be able to integrate with other product using the free version."
"ROI is estimated at saving my team roughly 10 to 12 man hours per week in troubleshooting for our company as well as what our profits had been from our services of installing, configuring, and supporting other clients with the product."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
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Computer Software Company
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Manufacturing Company
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Government
8%
 

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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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