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ScienceLogic 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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.4
ScienceLogic users report high returns, reduced incident response times, improved troubleshooting, and benefits outweigh initial costs by year two.
Sentiment score
7.2
Splunk Enterprise Security enhances visibility, streamlines operations, and supports real-time decisions, improving efficiency and security in large-scale environments.
The return on investment is fair but often challenged by medium-sized businesses who may question its adequacy.
Splunk's cost is justified for large environments with extensive assets.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.7
ScienceLogic's customer service is praised for responsiveness, knowledge, efficiency, and round-the-clock support despite occasional delays.
Sentiment score
6.7
Splunk Enterprise Security support is mixed: knowledgeable at higher levels but variable with first-tier responses, praised online.
Problems with Skylar may require longer wait times due to limited resource expertise.
If you want to write your own correlation rules, it is very difficult to do, and you need Splunk's support to write new correlation rules for the SIEM tool.
The technical support for Splunk met my expectations.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
ScienceLogic offers scalability across devices, but could improve ease in scaling operations for cloud and on-premise environments.
Sentiment score
7.7
Splunk Enterprise Security is scalable and effective for large deployments, though costs and planning are essential considerations.
It is easy to scale.
They struggle a bit with pure virtual environments, but in terms of how much they can handle, it is pretty good.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
ScienceLogic is highly regarded for stability, reliability, and efficiency, with minor issues not affecting overall performance and quick recovery.
Sentiment score
7.9
Splunk Enterprise Security is reliable and adaptable, handling large data volumes with minimal downtime and robust performance.
Stability should relate to whether the platform fails, stops working, or breaks.
It provides a stable environment but needs to integrate with ITSM platforms to achieve better visibility.
It is very stable.
 

Room For Improvement

ScienceLogic users seek improvements in reporting, UI, API, integration, observability, performance monitoring, documentation, and proactive notifications.
Splunk Enterprise Security needs improved setup, GUI, user control, pricing, machine learning, and intuitive dashboards for better accessibility.
While some other companies have easier APIs, using this solution demands significant expertise.
Integrating observability and APM monitoring into the overall portfolio would be beneficial.
Splunk Enterprise Security would benefit from a more robust rule engine to reduce false positives.
What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel.
Data retention can be better. If we want to look at the data for five months or six months, that is not available to us. We only have a history of 20 or 30 days.
 

Setup Cost

ScienceLogic offers negotiable but potentially costly pricing with scalable, tier-based licenses, requiring careful cost management.
Splunk Enterprise Security is costly but valued for features and scalability, offering significant ROI with careful data management.
It could be cheaper.
The platform requires significant financial investment and resources, making it expensive despite its comprehensive features.
I saw clients spend two million dollars a year just feeding data into the Splunk solution.
Splunk is priced higher than other solutions.
 

Valuable Features

ScienceLogic offers customizable dashboards, integration capabilities, AI mapping, and robust monitoring for effective IT and network management.
Splunk Enterprise Security enhances threat detection with fast data retrieval, customizable visualizations, and seamless third-party integration for efficient operations.
The solution excels in three areas: application monitoring, server monitoring, and network performance monitoring.
The CMDB update and the automatic CMDB update are valuable.
This capability is useful for performance monitoring and issue identification.
They have approximately 50,000 predefined correlation rules.
Splunk Enterprise Security's most valuable features are its stability and the robust Splunk Search Processing Language.
 

Categories and Ranking

ScienceLogic
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (7th), Unified Communications Monitoring (1st), Network Monitoring Software (27th), Server Monitoring (12th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (23rd), Cloud Monitoring Software (19th), AIOps (7th)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
305
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of ScienceLogic is 4.4%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 26.2%, down from 30.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Michael Wenn - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers comprehensive monitoring and tool consolidation but integration complexity needs improvement
There is room for improvement in the speed of setting up the service and integrating PowerPacks. Although these prebuilt features are great, there is considerable complexity in bringing them together to create a unified dashboard. Even with many good integrations and deep visibility, the implementation takes time, especially when it doesn't involve these integrations. While some other companies have easier APIs, using this solution demands significant expertise. It's challenging for new customers to implement independently. The implementation speed of non-PowerPack or non-out-of-the-box integrations should be improved. Additionally, the AI automation feature is not yet very rich due to resource constraints supporting a wide platform.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ScienceLogic?
The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.
What needs improvement with ScienceLogic?
Integrating observability and APM monitoring into the overall portfolio would be beneficial.
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...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Kellogg Company, Booz Allen, Cisco, Red Bull, Fidelus, Telstra, Comcast, CSC, Peak 10, HughesNet, Hosting, Datapipe, US Army, Equinix, Rite Aid, Carbonite, Sybase, Carpathia, AT&T, ePlus, Dimension Data, Virtustream, Boeing, Honeywell
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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