SolarWinds Pingdom vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

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The compared SolarWinds and Splunk solutions aren't in the same category. SolarWinds is ranked #71 in APM , and holds a 0.6% mindshare in the category. Splunk is ranked #1 in SIEM , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 8.0% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of SolarWinds users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

SolarWinds Pingdom

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75% willing to recommend

Splunk Enterprise Security

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39,875 Comparison Views

94% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Pingdom and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (71st)

Splunk Enterprise Security

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

467

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 0.3% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 8.0% mindshare, down 9.6% since last year.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SolarWinds Pingdom	0.6%
Dynatrace	5.0%
Splunk AppDynamics	4.9%
Other	89.5%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security	8.0%
IBM Security QRadar	5.6%
Wazuh	3.9%
Other	82.5%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Jay Vekaria

Linux System Administrator at Ergode

High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use

Some of the functions could improve by making them easier. There is room for improvement when it comes to the graphs provided by the software. Additionally, there seems to be an issue with the ping status, as it sometimes indicates that a website is down even when it is functioning properly. It appears that there are certain aspects related to cache management or other backend functionalities that are unclear. The time range graph and overall user interface could be more user-friendly. For example, when selecting a custom graph for a specific time period, clicking on it should open the corresponding website in a new tab, but instead, it displays the current graph. This lack of consistency can be frustrating when trying to navigate the interface. Furthermore, the reports shared on a weekly basis arrive one week late, reducing their usefulness. Overall, some extra efforts are required to make the user experience smoother and more efficient.

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Sathis-Kumar

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."

"Overall, this is a very good product and one that I recommend."

"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."

"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"

"My advice to anybody who is considering Pingdom is that this is a good product at an affordable price."

"Some of the insights that we have obtained as a part of using Splunk have greatly helped us in increasing our revenue in terms of selling our products."

"The AI-driven detections have improved the accuracy of my investigations significantly, reduced my mean time to detection by about 30 percent and my mean time to resolution by about 40 percent, and contributed to faster, more efficient threat detection compared to other SIEM tools I have used."

"It definitely does help with both auditing and as well as regular monitoring. SOC does more monitoring, but ES also gives you other features that are auditing-related. The dashboards are also beneficial."

"Splunk Enterprise Security has positively impacted my organization by speeding up our ability to respond to security threats, improving my response time from a time span of months to a time span of days."

"Splunk Enterprise Security is a huge value-add to us because I can confirm that our security team treats it as a normal component of their daily operations."

"The incident review pane is the best part of it because that is where the SOC lives. It is the heartbeat of what the SOC needs to do. You are able to start the investigative process. As you are sitting in the incident review pane, you see the alert, and from that one alert, which is called a notable alert, you can drill in and see all the different specific details that are tied to that."

"Splunk's schema on demand is incredibly useful. I do not have to worry about what my users will need when we onboard their data."

"The Splunk queries are valuable."

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Cons

"I would like to see better integration with other products."

"Technical support could use some improvement."

"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."

"If you monitor too much, you can lose performance on your systems."

"The UI sometimes can be laggy and not responsive."

"Adding custom visualization in Splunk has been improved over the years but can still be made better by integrating more and more JavaScript visualization sources."

"Regarding Splunk Enterprise Security's AI capabilities in terms of accuracy and reliability of output, I think by default, they were not that good."

"Splunk is on the right path. It's good, but it does not provide everything that we need."

"It is a good product, but the Achilles heel for a lot of organizations is the cost model for it because it gets expensive. That's because the model is based on how much data it processes a day, which can be prohibitive, especially if you have a lot of data. A lot of customers may not be ready for the sticker shock on how to fully leverage the product. I realized that the reason for that is that when it was originally designed, it was kind of like a big data modeling application. If they want to have a bigger customer base, they can come out with subsets of their product that are focused on specific things and have different pricing models. It may help with the cost."

"Splunk is such a large product. Allowing it to be more easily used by people who have not had a lot of training on it would be an improvement."

"It is a hugely complicated product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license was paid yearly and included technical support."

"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."

"This price of this solution is reasonable."

"Personnel costs are saved by not having to involve the domain developers from multiple teams when tracing a problem that spans multiple platforms."

"The price is comparable."

"From what I have seen so far, Splunk has multiple cost models. The one that we are using is pretty good when it comes to ingesting data into the environment. It has worked out pretty well."

"Luckily, we come under a large federal agency, and before the pandemic, they signed a large enterprise license agreement. It worked out great and to our advantage because we are a small organization. We got a 300 gig license, and we just did not have the buying power to be able to get products cheaply. Because we all partnered together under the agency umbrella, we were able to get Splunk Enterprise Security, UBA, and ITSI for cheap. This was good considering the fact that some of these premium apps require a minimum number of users, and we do not have the number of people needed to even justify buying it."

"Our ROI is high."

"Splunk has always been on the expensive side."

"Some of the insights that we have obtained as a part of using Splunk have greatly helped us in increasing our revenue in terms of selling our products."

"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive but the solution is equipped with a lot of features."

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Comparison Review

Vinod Shankar

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 26, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

15%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Outsourcing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	134
Midsize Enterprise	75
Large Enterprise	318

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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...

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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 ...

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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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Overview

SolarWinds Pingdom provides comprehensive network and real user monitoring with quick alerts and robust reporting, ensuring efficient website functionality and performance management for Managed Service Providers.

SolarWinds Pingdom aids in network monitoring, security testing, and application response times. It offers page speed optimization and user-friendly GUI, integrating reports for enhanced functionality. Providers rely on its instant alerts and easy interface for efficient performance management. Challenges include integration with management tools and inconsistencies in ping status, with room for improvement in support and graphical user interface. Despite these areas, its metrics tracking and security features such as spam protection ensure a robust service.

What are the standout features of SolarWinds Pingdom?

Network and Real User Monitoring: Monitors network performance and end-user experience effectively.
Instant Alerts: Provides quick notifications for device issues and performance anomalies.
Root Cause Analysis: Identifies underlying issues affecting performance efficiently.
Reporting and Bandwidth Updates: Generates comprehensive reports with bandwidth utilization.
User-Friendly Interface: Offers an intuitive GUI for seamless navigation.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Efficiency: Quick notifications ensure timely management and resolution.
Reliability: Metrics tracking and security features add reliability to services.
Usability: Easy integration with reports enhances functionality.
Scalability: Paid versions offer enhanced capabilities for expanding needs.

Managed Service Providers extensively use SolarWinds Pingdom for network monitoring and application response testing, ensuring seamless website functionality. By entering website details for regular checks, they maintain functionality with 200 response codes, benefiting from scalable capabilities through paid plans.

SolarWinds

Splunk Enterprise Security delivers powerful log management, rapid searches, and intuitive dashboards, enhancing real-time analytics and security measures. Its advanced machine learning and wide system compatibility streamline threat detection and incident response across diverse IT environments.

Splunk Enterprise Security stands out in security operations with robust features like comprehensive threat intelligence and seamless data integration. Its real-time analytics and customizable queries enable proactive threat analysis and efficient incident response. Integration with multiple third-party feeds allows detailed threat correlation and streamlined data visualization. Users find the intuitive UI and broad compatibility support efficient threat detection while reducing false positives. Despite its strengths, areas such as visualization capabilities and integration processes with cloud environments need enhancement. Users face a high learning curve, and improvements in automation, AI, documentation, and training are desired to maximize its potential.

What Are the Key Features of Splunk Enterprise Security?

Log Management: Efficiently manages and organizes a vast amount of logs for better data handling.
Rapid Data Search: Quickly retrieves relevant data for fast decision-making.
Flexible Dashboards: Customizable dashboards provide clear data visualization.
Comprehensive Threat Intelligence: Offers detailed insights to preemptively defend against threats.
Real-Time Analytics: Analyzes data in real-time to enhance response times.
Integration with Third-Party Feeds: Streamlines information flow from multiple sources.

What Benefits Should Users Investigate in Reviews?

Efficient Incident Response: Enhances the ability to respond promptly to threats.
False Positive Reduction: Minimizes incorrect threat alarms, making monitoring more efficient.
Threat Detection Speed: Accelerates the identification and evaluation of security threats.
Cost-Effectiveness: Potential savings through better licensing options and operational efficiency.
User Adaptability: Enhancements in documentation and training resources aid in overcoming the learning curve.

In specific industries like finance and healthcare, Splunk Enterprise Security is instrumental for log aggregation, SIEM functionalities, and compliance monitoring. Companies leverage its capabilities for proactive threat analysis and response, ensuring comprehensive security monitoring and integration with various tools for heightened operational intelligence.

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Sample Customers

Spotify, MailChimp, Slack, Twitter

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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