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Splunk Cloud Platform vs Splunk Security Essentials comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

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

Splunk Cloud Platform
Ranking in Data Visualization
3rd
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Security Essentials
Ranking in Data Visualization
20th
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Security Incident Response (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Splunk Cloud Platform is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Security Essentials is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Ian Gatundu - PeerSpot reviewer
It improves our visibility and decision-making while helping us meet compliance standards
The Cloud Platform interface is cleaner than Splunk Enterprise's monitoring console. You can easily understand what's happening with your indexes. It's more refined than Splunk Enterprise's console, but they have the same feel and function. It's easy to monitor multiple cloud environments because you can create custom dashboards for any use case you may have. It offers good visibility because it integrates with the ITSI app, providing a clear overview of your environment. Integrating Splunk with other components on the cloud and network resources is effortless because it can collect data from various sources, including stored data from long-term storage. Splunk's reporting offers a good visualization of your data. You can visualize the statistics based on your searches. It produces some helpful graphs that enable you to easily compare what's happening in your search. It's very comprehensive.
Srinivas Prudhivi Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables us to examine the parameters of the events found and take appropriate actions as necessary
Once we've configured our logs, for example, if we need to monitor processes and IP addresses, we ensure these logs are being ingested into our Splunk instance. The logs gathered from various endpoints are then consolidated into our Splunk platform. Once the data is collected, we can create searches and dashboards to analyze it. With these searches and dashboards, we gain insights into events and can make informed decisions based on them. We'll examine the parameters of these events and take appropriate actions as necessary.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Splunk helped reduce our mean time to resolve by around 60%."
"The Splunk search is powerful compared to similar solutions. We get millions of data points within seconds."
"The log search capabilities are very good."
"The solution is user friendly and has extensive uses."
"Not having to manage Splunk Cloud's infrastructure is valuable."
"In an enterprise, you need a universal or heavy forwarder. If you don't have that, you need an HSE token or API request call and all the different components. In Splunk Cloud, you just have one instance to search all the data in your index. You don't need to manage it because Splunk handles that."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's most valuable features are enterprise security and ticketing integration."
"Alerts are a huge benefit because we can customize them to each business unit's needs."
"The network monitoring feature is particularly valuable for gathering information about users, login times, and other statistics."
"We are focusing on security to ensure incidents are reported efficiently. In addition to that, for reporting purposes, we are utilizing our dashboards or creating new ones. We will be using free visualization tools for this purpose."
 

Cons

"The security connection should have a seamless integration. Other than that, the way we are using it, so far, it seems quite good."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform dashboard could benefit from some improvements."
"Splunk Cloud's SVC licensing model lacks transparency."
"They can streamline the process of creating custom apps."
"The administration could use improvement. We have to rely on support more often than we're used to."
"When it comes to the integrations with the other platforms, there is a little bit of a lag in the observability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It needs to mature; it's just getting established in the industry on a wider scale."
"Every time they launch new versions, we experience a few bugs. The most recent version had a couple of bugs in the databases. We contacted the vendor and got assistance solving these bugs, so the environment is more stable."
"The price could be improved."
"The reporting feature needs to be more user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company has a license for Splunk Cloud Platform. My company also has a license for Splunk Enterprise."
"Splunk Cloud Platform fell within our budget so we pulled the trigger and implemented it."
"The certifications are costly."
"Currently, we have the ingest-based license. They are offering SVC-based licenses as well, but I am not a fan of SVC-based licensing. At the end of the day, I want to predict my budget and how much I am going to pay to the vendor so that I can plan my yearly budget."
"It is a touchy subject because we are locked into it. That goes back to the rehydrating data. We cannot have the retention that we want to store for legal and compliance purposes because that is seven years' worth of data for some of the indexes, so we ship them off into S3 buckets and install them there, at which point they are invisible to Splunk, so we have to rehydrate them, but we cannot rehydrate those pockets into Splunk Cloud. We have to rehydrate them into a self-hosted version of Splunk, which can take days to set up and get going. I would not call Splunk's licensing and pricing predatory, but they have made it very difficult to maintain the independence of your own data."
"Splunk is a bit more expensive than some solutions, but customers can derive more value from it due to the features it has."
"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
"I do not personally deal with that side, but from discussions, I know that it is one of the more expensive tools. I do not have anything to compare it with."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
29%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Retailer
5%
University
5%
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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?
Splunk Cloud is considered too expensive, with its two product offerings both being costly. I would rate the cost an eight out of ten, with ten being the most costly.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform needs improvement in its security offerings, specifically in cybersecurity. It has not kept pace with competitors over recent years, and integration with the Cisco ecosystem a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Security Essentials?
Pricing and licensing are managed by our vendor management team and are not under my purview.
What needs improvement with Splunk Security Essentials?
The reporting feature needs to be more user-friendly. It would help if it were easier to generate reports similar to other cybersecurity tools. Additionally, more automation in alert systems would ...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Security Essentials?
I use Splunk Security Essentials for monitoring as part of my organization. We use it for our security processes and to gather reports on performance, security, and bottlenecks. It's primarily util...
 

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