We performed a comparison between Splunk Enterprise Security and VMware Aria Operations for Logs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Low barrier to start searching with the ability to normalize data on the fly."
"It is a one stop shop as a full monitoring and alerting solution for operations and application analysis for most of our back-end systems."
"The fact that Splunk is a platform and not just a SIEM solution is a key benefit."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it helps with our use cases to detect anomalies in our data and it is important to my company since we have a lot of data on different logs on the systems."
"The solution helped reduce our alert volume."
"Exporting is a good feature. It helps me out when I have to do reports. I do a lot of exporting and crunching of the numbers. Dashboards are okay for showing to the leadership, but for doing statistics and updating tickets, the export feature is very beneficial for me."
"The most valuable feature is the custom dashboard feature."
"Its integration is most valuable. Its UI is also pretty much easy."
"We are using it because we have a VMware product. It has its own built in dashboards for VMware products, and that's a good thing."
"It allows us to gain a comprehensive overview of our infrastructure."
"It gives the customer a quick overview, so they don't have to dig. There's a clear dashboard with many sensors in a single space. He gets a helicopter view of his environment, but he can investigate further if there are serious issues. It's pretty user-friendly."
"The solution is quite user-friendly."
"The trace log is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very helpful in troubleshooting problems."
"The most valuable feature is server virtualization. It's been very useful."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."
"Although the technical support is adequate, there is still room for improvement."
"The product's price may be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The integration with all our tool sets felt like we were reinventing the wheel, which was a pain point for us."
"There is improvement needed when importing from some types of data sources."
"It will be helpful for customers if they can create some real-world cases, and we can find a case study to align with. I know that Splunk has tremendous potential. We only include a tiny piece of it. There is a lot of stuff that we need to learn. If Splunk can provide more real-time examples, that will be helpful for customers."
"Its pricing is extremely high. There are other tools out in the market that are competitive. They do not necessarily have all the functionality, but they are competitive. The professional services we have used have been high as well in comparison to the market."
"We had an instance when Splunk failed and it took us a couple of days to recover."
"While Splunk offers SOAR as a separate product, integrating it into the next version of Splunk Enterprise Security as a unified solution would be beneficial."
"What I'd like to improve in vRealize Log Insight is the licensing model. VMware provides vRealize Log Insight along with the VMware Cloud Foundation, but customers who would like to go for the native VMware would have to procure vRealize Log Insight separately. Today, vRealize Log Insight is offered on two different licenses, one is based on the number of VMs, and the other is based on the number of physical codes on the machine. If VMware can provide a bundle offer for customers who procure more than ten licenses, where you can have an option to run, for example, three hundred machines on vRealize Log Insight with no extra cost, this would encourage more people to adopt the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of vRealize Log Insight is for a cloud option to be available, which would be a pay-as-you-go licensing model that would allow me to pick and choose what I'll monitor. For example, I have one thousand and three hundred critical servers, and the seven hundred servers for basic development, I don't want to monitor on vRealize Log Insight today, so I should be able to pick what I need to monitor on the solution and only pay for that specific instance. If VMware can apply these changes, it would help VMware customers to procure more or adopt more of vRealize Log Insight even in smaller projects."
"The product's price falls on the higher end of the spectrum, making it an area of concern."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved."
"The dashboard needs to be improved because this is what I need to monitor my infrastructure."
"In the VMware environment, one area for improvement is the handling of VM failovers due to host failures, such as unexpected shutdowns from hardware issues. Currently, High Availability (HA) doesn't seem to recognize whether the VMs are online during failover, treating them as offline or unavailable."
"Technical support should be improved."
"From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made more user-friendly."
"It's great for VMware, but it would be good if they had third-party logins."
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Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 240 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and IBM Security QRadar. See our Splunk Enterprise Security vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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