Splunk Cloud Platform vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

Splunk Cloud Platform vs. Splunk Enterprise Security

March 2023

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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:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.2

Users report improved productivity and security with Splunk Cloud, but concerns about cost and financial returns exist.

Sentiment score

6.2

Splunk Enterprise Security boosts ROI with cost reduction, increased efficiency, enhanced security, and improved operational visibility despite pricing concerns.

Splunk Cloud Platform has impacted operational costs; it's a bit expensive, but it provides value for money.

UzairKhan

Business General Manager at Mutex Systems

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The documentation for Splunk Enterprise Security is outstanding. It is well-organized and easy to access.

Akif Arayici

DevOps&Cloud Engineer Mentee at CertDirectory.io

We couldn't calculate what would have been the cost if they had actually gotten compromised; however, they were in the process, so every investment was returned immediately.

Dennis Mohn

Business Development Manager at Axians Germany

On average, my SecOps team takes probably at least a quarter of the time, if not more, to remediate security incidents with Splunk Enterprise Security compared to our previous solution.

Michael Waite

IT Orchestration Architect at Penn State University

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.7

Splunk Cloud Platform's support is mixed, praised for speed and knowledge, but criticized for delays and complex issue handling.

Sentiment score

6.2

Splunk Enterprise Security support is knowledgeable but inconsistent, with varied responsiveness and effective resources praised by customers.

I feel that Splunk's documentation is highly maintained, regular updates seem to happen, and I don't have any suggestions for improvement as it is currently at its best.

Karsh Trivedi

Soc Analyst at Payatu

Sometimes, the support team may not be fully knowledgeable about the challenge you face, but through their internal escalation structure, they manage to find viable solutions sooner or later or provide updates on when issues will be fixed.

Tejas Shah

Splunk Certified Architect at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Premium support is costly and may not always provide a satisfactory experience.

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Sr Manager at Continued

We have paid for Splunk support, and we’re not on the free tier hoping for assistance; we are a significant customer and invest a lot in this service.

reviewer2746377

Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have had nothing but good experiences with Splunk support, receiving timely and helpful replies.

Adam Santilli

Cyber Security Associate at SAP

We've had great customer success managers who have helped us navigate scaling from 600 gigs to 30 terabytes.

MatthewSnyder

Principal Engineer at Aviatrix

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.9

Splunk Cloud Platform offers scalable solutions, though licensing costs and training are considerations for effective implementation and adaptability.

Sentiment score

7.3

Splunk Enterprise Security scales robustly, excelling in cloud environments, though cost remains a challenge for some on-premise users.

I think it's scalable due to the ease of integrating and deploying multiple indexers for data processing.

Karsh Trivedi

Soc Analyst at Payatu

Regarding the scalability of Splunk Cloud Platform, I would say it is scalable, but maybe the pricing may affect the scalability.

reviewer2747775

IT Security Operations Manager at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Splunk Cloud Platform is a good tool, but it's not the easiest to transfer between different teams because there's a lot of training involved in it.

reviewer2688711

Data Security Intern at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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We currently rely on disaster recovery and backup recovery, which takes time to recover, during which you're basically blind, so I'm pushing my leadership team to switch over to a clustering environment for constant availability.

David-Alfonso

IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It is one of the things that separates it from other tooling, and if not, it is the most scalable solution out there.

reviewer2778402

Systems Development Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

They struggle a bit with pure virtual environments, but in terms of how much they can handle, it is pretty good.

ROBERT-CHRISTIAN

CTO at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

Splunk Cloud Platform is generally stable and reliable, with high availability and occasional minor issues, improving with maintenance.

Sentiment score

7.5

Splunk Enterprise Security is stable and reliable, with occasional slowdowns handled by effective configuration and capacity management.

I rate Splunk Cloud Platform a ten out of ten for stability and reliability.

Karsh Trivedi

Soc Analyst at Payatu

Splunk Cloud Platform was stable, and I did not see any performance issues or downtime.

reviewer2747775

IT Security Operations Manager at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

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They test it very thoroughly before release, and our customers have Splunk running for months without issues.

reviewer2701950

Splunk System Engineer at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees

Splunk has been very reliable and very consistent.

MatthewSnyder

Principal Engineer at Aviatrix

We need more SMEs, and there is no mechanism to tell us about indexer or search head issues.

Sathis-Kumar

Senior Manager at Bank of America

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Room For Improvement

Splunk Cloud Platform needs better integration, user-friendliness, and support, facing high costs and challenges in customization and training.

Splunk Enterprise Security struggles with usability, integration, performance, high pricing, and insufficient documentation, demanding better support and AI focus.

I know there are tutorials on the website, but I feel if they rolled out more free courses on such things that provide a link to a free course for beginner training, I feel people would be interested in it.

reviewer2688711

Data Security Intern at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Splunk Cloud Platform needs improvement in its security offerings, specifically in cybersecurity.

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Sr Manager at Continued

Integration is a bit difficult due to the coding required for the integrations.

UzairKhan

Business General Manager at Mutex Systems

Improving the infrastructure behind Splunk Enterprise Security is vital—enhanced cores, CPUs, and memory should be prioritized to support better processing power.

Mustafa Ameen

Resident Consultant (Security Analyst) at helpag

Splunk Enterprise Security is not something that automatically picks things; you have to set up use cases, update data models, and link the right use cases to the right data models for those detections to happen.

reviewer2704098

Security & Risk Analyst at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For any future enhancements or features, such as MLTK and SOAR platform integration, we need more visibility, training, and certification for the skilled professionals who are working.

Madhu Gurindapalli

Security Consultant at Matiq

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Setup Cost

Splunk Cloud Platform is costly for smaller users, but offers feature-rich solutions with flexible licensing for larger enterprises.

Splunk Enterprise Security offers robust features and high ROI but is costly, often pushing smaller enterprises to seek alternatives.

Once you are in the partnership with Splunk Cloud Platform and with Cisco, you can have good discounts, you can make the deal and discuss, and they are willing to help you as a partner in finding the solution and finding your target.

reviewer2805738

Innovation Service Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Splunk Cloud is considered too expensive, with its two product offerings both being costly.

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Sr Manager at Continued

If I were to rate the price for the product from 1 to 10, I would rate it nine.

UzairKhan

Business General Manager at Mutex Systems

I saw clients spend two million dollars a year just feeding data into the Splunk solution.

ROBERT-CHRISTIAN

CTO at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The platform requires significant financial investment and resources, making it expensive despite its comprehensive features.

Hamada Elewa

System Engineer - Security Presales at Raya Integration

I find it to be affordable, which is why every industry uses it.

Swayam Sopnic Nayak

Vice President Research And Development at OSINT Ambition

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Valuable Features

Splunk Cloud Platform simplifies data management with real-time visualization, robust search, cloud integration, and customizable dashboards for enhanced security.

Splunk Enterprise Security offers fast data access, versatile integration, and advanced analytics for proactive security and efficient incident resolution.

The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its robustness and ability to ingest logs.

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Sr Manager at Continued

The search capability utilizes the same compute assigned, and compared to on-premises, it is very efficient and fast because on-premises we had fixed compute assigned with limits set for searching per role or application.

HrishikeshNavkar

Senior Software Engineer at WorldPay US

The platform's alerting mechanism is valuable, as there is software that makes alarms in case of attacks.

Charles Roberti

Chief Executive Officer at ENAD

This capability is useful for performance monitoring and issue identification.

GautamKar

Staff Performance Engineer at ServiceNow

I assess Splunk Enterprise Security's insider threat detection capabilities for helping to find unknown threats and anomalous user behavior as great.

reviewer2701950

Splunk System Engineer at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees

Splunk Enterprise Security provides the foundation for unified threat detection, investigation, and response, enabling fast identification of critical issues.

Ashiq Ashraf

Specialist-Infrastructure Opertions at Allianz Technology

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Categories and Ranking

Splunk Cloud Platform

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Visualization (3rd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (2nd)

Splunk Enterprise Security

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

381

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Splunk Cloud Platform is designed for Data Visualization and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, up 0.6% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 7.2% mindshare, down 9.8% since last year.

Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform	1.0%
Tableau Enterprise	11.0%
Domo	5.7%
Other	82.3%

Data Visualization

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security	7.2%
Wazuh	5.8%
IBM Security QRadar	5.3%
Other	81.7%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Tejas Shah

Splunk Certified Architect at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Unified data monitoring has enabled proactive alerts and predictive analysis for daily operations

I don't see any new requirements in terms of improvements for Splunk Cloud Platform at this time. Splunk's dashboarding, reporting, and visualizations are evolving at a larger scale with the new Splunk Dashboard Studio in place. There were some limitations with the classic dashboard where you had to be aware of different HTML, CSS, and custom JavaScript for better visualizations. That's being migrated towards Splunk Dashboard Studio, which is evolving at a great pace, providing similar functionalities. I have not faced any current challenges regarding Splunk Cloud Platform's limitations. I still think, however, that better configuration and customization options for workload management could be enhanced, but that applies to Splunk Enterprise as well. It's just my understanding and what I foresee, but I'm not sure if it will be a priority right now, as even without workload management, a lot can be done, and the product team might have a different roadmap.

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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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Comparison Review

Vinod Shankar

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

Feb 26, 2015

HP ArcSight vs. IBM QRadar vs. McAfee Nitro vs. Splunk vs. RSA Security vs. LogRhythm

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Marketing Services Firm

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	46

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	112
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	267

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Splunk Cloud Platform?

Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?

We think that the price of the product is quite reasonable.

What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?

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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Overview

Splunk Cloud Platform enhances operational efficiency with streamlined log management and real-time data analysis, offering customizable dashboards, seamless system integration, and a user-friendly interface that simplifies infrastructure management.

Splunk Cloud Platform stands out for its robust indexing and powerful search capabilities, delivering end-to-end visibility across environments. AI-driven security measures enhance cybersecurity intelligence, while its flexible log management reduces resolution times. The platform integrates effortlessly with diverse systems, supporting centralized log management, security monitoring, and application performance analysis. Users leverage its comprehensive analytics for troubleshooting, alerting, and visualization, optimizing costs and ensuring compliance with unified data sources.

What are the key features of Splunk Cloud Platform?

Customizable Dashboards: Personalized insights with adaptable visualizations.
Powerful Search Capabilities: Advanced search functions that simplify data retrieval.
Seamless Integration: Easily connects with various systems to consolidate data.
Quick Setup: Accelerated deployment process, reducing time to value.
AI-driven Security Measures: Advanced protection with automated threat detection.
Real-Time Data Analysis: Instant insights for timely decision-making.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Enhanced Operational Efficiency: Streamlined processes reduce workload.
Reduced Resolution Times: Faster issue identification and resolution.
Cost-Effectiveness: Optimize resources and reduce expenses.
End-to-End Visibility: Comprehensive understanding across environments.
Flexibility in Log Management: Adaptable to business needs with ease.

In many industries, Splunk Cloud Platform is implemented primarily for unified log management, cybersecurity initiatives, and application performance monitoring. Businesses utilize it to streamline IT operations, integrate data sources, and leverage insights for troubleshooting and strategic decision-making, ensuring compliance and optimized resource use.

Splunk

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

Mindtouch

Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.