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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

"Overall, this is a very good product and one that I recommend."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"One valuable feature is real user monitoring."
"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."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"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."
"Splunk is one of the top SIEM solutions to work with."
"The query functionality is very easy to use and fast to retrieve logs in comparison to other SIEM solutions."
"My favorite example of improving of organization is saving a $60k/mo in payroll fraud and $10k/mo in wasted API credits by using simple searches and clear reports."
"The solution's most valuable feature is threat intelligence correlations."
"Overall, Splunk Enterprise Security has reduced our MTTR by approximately 30%."
"Splunk has many good apps and has a contribution from all security vendors."
"The most valuable features of Splunk Enterprise Security are reporting capabilities. It is a good tool for checking systems and analyzing situations. I find it useful to check my systems and analyze situations."
"Splunk is a user-friendly solution."
 

Cons

"Technical support could use some improvement."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Better education for users would be beneficial as they often don't know what they don't know or how to look for certain features."
"Visualizations can improve. There are some performance and stability issues with the visualization layer."
"It can be easier to setup and adding new sources which Splunk are improving with every new version."
"I think the tech support response time could be a bit better. Sometimes I need to wait more than 24 hours for a response to my tickets."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"I haven't found a way for me to create my own plugins and integrate them into Splunk, but this isn't necessarily a limitation; it could simply be a lack of knowledge on my part."
"Resource usage can probably be described as an area with shortcomings in the product where improvements are required."
"​On the technical side, it would be nice to see aspects of the recent acquisition of Phantom make it into the core Splunk Enterprise, not just become a part of the premium Enterprise Security.​"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This price of this solution is reasonable."
"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."
"It is possible to use a developer's license, which is up to 10GB per day of volume traffic, which is usually enough for most use cases."
"Splunk Enterprise becomes extremely expensive after the 20GB/month license."
"The licensing costs are high for Splunk Enterprise Security."
"The pricing modules could be improved."
"While Splunk is more expensive than other solutions, we would still choose it because of its capabilities."
"The price of this solution is expensive. However, it has great features. If you want a great solution you need to pay a price matching the features."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is a worthwhile investment given the comprehensive range of features it offers."
"Be upfront about your needs and expectations. Splunk is great to work with."
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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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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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