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SolarWinds Pingdom vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

SolarWinds Pingdom
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (68th)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
394
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Lifecycle Management solutions, they serve different purposes. SolarWinds Pingdom is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 0.6%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 7.3% mindshare, down 9.5% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SolarWinds Pingdom0.6%
Dynatrace5.3%
Datadog4.6%
Other89.5%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security7.3%
IBM Security QRadar5.3%
Wazuh4.4%
Other83.0%
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1960119 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operational Lead at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The user-friendly GUI and notifications are valuable features
One valuable feature is real user monitoring. On-time pin-screen monitoring gives instant alerts, root cause analysis and reporting. I also value the reports integrating with our modules. The user-friendly GUI and notifications are valuable features. Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time. It is easy to use, create and maintain the windows. You can also take notes. It's difficult to take a website down if there's spam security in the Pingdom.
Sathis-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Bank of America
Helps us detect cyber threats quickly and integrate multiple feeds effectively
Overall, the product is good, but when it comes to some infrastructure issues, we have to dig into more logs. There is no straightforward indication of an issue. Health check kind of dashboards are not available. More AI would help us, and more optimization, since security products run more queries. The AI module could suggest solutions, optimizing queries or workload balancing. If the product itself advises on running queries during peak times, it would be similar to what ChatGPT currently offers. We see quite a few issues on stability. Even last week, we faced something, and identifying bottlenecks is not easy. We need more SMEs, and there is no mechanism to tell us about indexer or search head issues. Self-monitoring dashboards could be beneficial. The technical support still requires more improvement. Often, primary support takes a lot of time and forwards most solutions to the engineering side. The primary support team has very limited knowledge to provide.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"One valuable feature is real user monitoring."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"My advice to anybody who is considering Pingdom is that this is a good product at an affordable price."
"Overall, this is a very good product and one that I recommend."
"Splunk handles a high volume of data that we have, and it does it really well."
"Splunk Enterprise Security helped improve our organization’s ability to ingest and normalize data."
"The client site login is pretty extensible and probably cost-effective."
"The UI of Splunk makes it easier for our analysts to move around and see what they need to see."
"Splunk Enterprise Security offers valuable features like seamless integration and a SQL-standard Structured Query Language for easy searching."
"Splunk Enterprise Security streamlines the creation of what they call notables, which takes a lot of the effort that we would have to put into creating our own solution off the table and does it for us."
"It has virtual visualization, and other products do not."
"The solution has made us more secure."
 

Cons

"Technical support could use some improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Splunk Enterprise Security could improve in automation, flexibility, and providing more content out of the box."
"When files are absent, troubleshooting becomes difficult, and performance issues inevitably arise."
"Due to its high licensing cost, Splunk is out of reach for many organizations."
"I find that the learning curve for Splunk is relatively lengthy."
"It can be tough to determine if you are getting all of the value out of your investment at times."
"Most importantly, Splunk can be outrageously expensive. That is the problem with both Splunk and Sentinel. Their pricing literally explodes based on the amount of data you feed in."
"Over time I will have more requirements and I can foresee the solution could improve the search algorithm to run and output the data faster."
"I want Splunk Enterprise Security to release more AI and machine learning features in the future."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"While I wouldn't describe it as excessively expensive, if you require specific and reliable monitoring, SolarWinds can be a suitable option. The advantage is that SolarWinds offers a free version as well. If you don't heavily rely on its monitoring capabilities and are content with its basic features, the free version could suffice for your needs."
"The license was paid yearly and included technical support."
"This price of this solution is reasonable."
"It would be nice if the pricing were cheaper. However, we did purchase it."
"The pricing of Splunk Enterprise Security is high."
"Licensing is a yearly, one-time cost."
"I would highly recommend anyone evaluating this option to download the free trial which allows for the ingestion of 500MB of data per day in order to get a feel for what Splunk does at its core. It will get pricey once your ingestion rates start to sky rocket, but I would consider it expensive given the amount of information that it allows you to analyze and react on straight out-of-the-box."
"Its pricing model can be improved."
"I think the price could be improved."
"I assume that the pricing is reasonable, because if it was too costly, there are other alternatives."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is not a cheap product, but I think it is worth every dollar that you pay."
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Comparison Review

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Feb 26, 2015
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
8%
University
8%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business124
Midsize Enterprise52
Large Enterprise274
 

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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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