We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Their support team is efficient, and it is easy to set up."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerts."
"The other valuable system is the DSS (decision support system). If there's a fault in the network, SolarWinds is basically capable of rectifying and resolving that problem on its own without any intervention from an IP assistant or administrator."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"With just three modules, I can monitor server performance (whether it’s a VM, in the cloud, or an on-premises server."
"All the features are very good. The monitoring of the equipment, the configuration manager, and the IP address monitoring are great."
"The best part of Splunk Enterprise Security is its customizable settings."
"The feature that we use the most is the correlation search engine within ES."
"The flexibility of the search capability is most valuable. You can use it for more than just a basic log aggregator. It is powerful in that regard."
"We are much faster finding and addressing issues with Splunk."
"The metrics and trends that Splunk Enterprise Security generates using all the data points we send allow customers to understand better what their users are doing."
"It helps streamline troubleshooting and log analysis."
"The SIEM is the most valuable feature of the product."
"The dashboard and reporting are very good... It provides very good visibility in a hybrid cloud environment, and you can build custom utilization APIs using Splunk."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Technical support and releases are not particularly reliable."
"The price of the solution can be improved."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better."
"Real-time analytics is the major weakness of the SolarWinds NPM platform today. They've done a fantastic job enabling the collection of data. Users are now demanding the ability to generate their own graphs, views, and so on; all of this must be done by an admin today."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved. We would like to divide the dashboards to give a clear view to our management team to show what we have and what deficiencies exist in our network."
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
"The UI could be better. This is applicable to Splunk in general. I know that a lot of people who get their hands on Splunk are hesitant to use it just because they find it overwhelming. There are a lot of options."
"Splunk could be improved by reducing the cost. The cost is one of the biggest challenges for us in keeping to our production requirements."
"It needs a better way to export dynamic views without requiring a ton of code and user/pw."
"The UI can be improved. Dashboards and reports can be better in terms of graphics."
"When you get into large amounts of data, Splunk can get pretty slow. This is the same on-premise or AWS, it doesn't matter. The way that they handle large data sets could be improved."
"I would like to see future development in terms of ML (Machine Learning)."
"The support that is included with the standard licensing fee is very bad."
"The threat detection library needs to increase the frequency at which the playbooks are updated."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". 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 ". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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