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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 cuts costs and boosts efficiency with automation, threat response, and real-time insights, enhancing user satisfaction.
The return on investment is fair but often challenged by medium-sized businesses who may question its adequacy.
For smaller organizations, other products may provide better value for money.
 

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's customer service is praised for knowledgeable support but needs improvement in response times and consistency.
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 scales effectively, handling large data volumes and diverse environments, though costs may increase with scalability.
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 stable and reliable, but proper setup and careful capacity planning are crucial for optimal 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 better setup, integration, documentation, interfaces, access controls, data management, and pricing flexibility for improved user experience.
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.
An API with Microsoft Sentinel or a similar SIEM tool would be a good idea.
Splunk Enterprise Security would benefit from a more robust rule engine to reduce false positives.
 

Setup Cost

ScienceLogic offers negotiable but potentially costly pricing with scalable, tier-based licenses, requiring careful cost management.
Splunk Enterprise Security's cost is seen as high, prompting calls for flexible pricing to suit different budgets and needs.
It could be cheaper.
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 offers robust data analysis, real-time alerts, and machine learning, enhancing threat detection and incident response.
The solution excels in three areas: application monitoring, server monitoring, and network performance monitoring.
The CMDB update and the automatic CMDB update are valuable.
The Splunk Enterprise Security's threat-hunting capabilities have been particularly useful in later releases.
They have approximately 50,000 predefined correlation rules.
 

Categories and Ranking

ScienceLogic
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
6th
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 (24th), 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
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 ScienceLogic is 4.9%, down from 5.3% 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

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%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
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 ScienceLogic?
The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ScienceLogic?
My company has an enterprise-level contract with ScienceLogic, so it is available to my organization at a good price.
What needs improvement with ScienceLogic?
The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required. The tool is more or less good. The tool needs to improve its APM capabilities.
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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