Splunk Enterprise Security vs WhatsUp Gold comparison

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Splunk and Progress Software are both solutions in the Log Management category. Splunk is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.5, while Progress Software is ranked #41 with an average rating of 7.0. Splunk holds a 7.3% mindshare in Log Management, compared to Progress Software’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Splunk users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Progress Software users who would recommend it.

Splunk Enterprise Security

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94% willing to recommend

WhatsUp Gold

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1,945 Comparison Views

85% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Splunk Enterprise Security and WhatsUp Gold 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Splunk Enterprise Security vs. WhatsUp Gold Report (Updated: November 2026).

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Splunk Enterprise Security vs. WhatsUp Gold

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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

Splunk Enterprise Security

Ranking in Log Management

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

468

Ranking in other categories

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

WhatsUp Gold

Ranking in Log Management

41st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (44th), Network Monitoring Software (25th), Server Monitoring (18th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (23rd), Configuration Management (22nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (27th), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 7.3%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhatsUp Gold is 0.9%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security	7.3%
WhatsUp Gold	0.9%
Other	91.8%

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Featured Reviews

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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Erik Cheng

Technical Manager at Quan Hung Gourmet

Efficient monitoring with detailed customization, yet complexity remains

The best feature of WhatsUp Gold is the automatic generation of topology and its integration with virtualization and wireless. I have used the automated device discovery with this topology feature. The interactive map feature helps me manage the topology because sometimes we cannot draw the topology correctly, so we need to manually edit the connections. The alerting system is very tunable and customizable, but it's a little complicated to use. Many customers cannot manage it by themselves and need support from us, the provider. We always use the dashboards in the SOC, where we constantly display a dashboard or multiple dashboards. This allows us to know immediately if the connection or bandwidth is full or if the connection is broken.

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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

"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to transact in the cloud and its ability to onboard data easily with minimum connectors."

"The advantages of Splunk over its competitors include the unified platform which includes everything from security to logging."

"Splunk Enterprise Security performs 80% of our work on its own; we just have to do the remaining 20%, which gives us the freedom to explore and detect threats more effectively."

"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 features of Splunk Enterprise Security that I have found most valuable include the risk-based score and UBA/UEBA, user behavior analytics, or user and entity behavior analytics."

"Generally speaking, their support is pretty good and their response time is pretty good."

"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."

"Analysts can review all the alerts in one pane of glass instead of going through multiple different security tools and managing or investigating alerts there."

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"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."

"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."

"Their tech support is very good."

"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."

"The product is reasonably priced."

"The user interface is good enough."

"In terms of pricing, I'd say that the pricing is nice and the product is good."

"We primarily use the solution to check the state of the network, monitoring thousands of devices and all of the internal network, and it is the first tool we use to see the state of the network for real-time monitoring."

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Cons

"Because the licensing model is very complicated to understand, it would be better to start with another product that provides a better licensing model."

"The search query seems slow, but I am not sure if that is just because it is searching millions upon millions of lines of text."

"The tool should include more real-world use case examples built out either through videos or in the community."

"Splunk Enterprise Security is not exactly user-friendly."

"A problem that we had recently had was we licensed it based on how much data you upload to them every day."

"Customer support has been quite poor until recently, but they have been improving."

"I have not seen ROI with Splunk Enterprise Security."

"Splunk is query-based, which is not the case with most cybersecurity tools. It is based on search queries and can be difficult to use. It would be good if they can make it easier to understand how to create search queries. They can improve the knowledge base for better understanding. To create your dashboard, you need to have a search query. We have multiple firewalls in our company, and we need a dashboard for them. It would be helpful if a default firewall dashboard is included in Splunk to make monitoring easier. If a dashboard is available for a security device, the operation part will be more efficient. We won't have to follow a manual process for this."

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"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."

"The interface needs some work."

"The tool should focus on increasing its market share, as it is the only area of concern where improvements are needed."

"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."

"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."

"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."

"This product should add other options for monitoring. It does not currently meet the broader needs of the banking industry in the version we have deployed."

"Honestly, I do not particularly like WhatsUp Gold. I think we should get rid of it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing costs are high for Splunk Enterprise Security."

"It is economical than other solutions."

"Unlike other security tools, Splunk provides a fixed amount of gigabytes per day, and we are required to pay for any additional usage beyond that limit, in addition to our monthly cost."

"Further reductions would be fantastic, and I believe that more and more people would flock to it."

"Splunk should be able to integrate with other product using the free version."

"I have no opinion on pricing."

"The pricing model is expensive and a nightmare based on the amount of data."

"I think we recently switched to the SVC pricing compared to the ingest pricing."

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"The most valuable feature is the cost compared to other solutions."

"It is per device, per year. The pricing is very clear. If you have a service agreement, you get all of your major upgrades and minor upgrades. It was under $10,000 to go all-in with all of the different add-ons for it."

"The tool's price is reasonable. WhatsUp Gold is cheaper than SolarWinds."

"Pricing is reasonable compared to other products."

"The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive."

"The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products."

"The price of WhatsUp Gold is good."

"I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees."

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Comparison Review

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Feb 26, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	135
Midsize Enterprise	74
Large Enterprise	320

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

Questions from the Community

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WhatsUp Gold?

Clients find the licensing calculator confusing, but we simplify this for them by collecting relevant information first. The licensing is based on devices, providing better cost-effectiveness than ...

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What needs improvement with WhatsUp Gold?

It would be great if WhatsUp Gold could add features that simplify management with AI, as it is currently too complicated to manage.

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What is your primary use case for WhatsUp Gold?

My use case for WhatsUp Gold includes all device availability checks, bandwidth usage, CPU, and memory usage, as well as alarm notifications.

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Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Overview

Splunk Enterprise Security integrates diverse security tools and data sources to deliver real-time alerting and machine learning-driven threat detection. Its centralized log management and customizable dashboards enhance incident response and reporting capabilities.

Offering real-time threat detection and AI-driven insights, Splunk Enterprise Security centralizes log management while providing risk-based alerting and customizable dashboards. Organizations benefit from improved incident detection and resolution, alongside enhanced visibility and reporting. Integrations with third-party tools optimize threat management and reduce alert fatigue. Users note areas for improvement, expressing the need for enhanced API management, accurate data model alignment, and interface refinement. The platform's complexity and resource-intensive configuration are challenges, with community feedback seeking reduced false positives, improved correlation rules, and competitive pricing models.

What are the key features of Splunk Enterprise Security?

Integration with Security Tools: Unifies various tools for comprehensive threat detection.
Real-Time Alerting: Provides immediate alerts for faster incident response.
Machine Learning-Driven Detection: Utilizes AI for enhanced threat identification.
Centralized Log Management: Simplifies log management across systems.
Customizable Dashboards: Offers tailored dashboards for specific monitoring needs.

What benefits might be highlighted in user reviews?

Improved Detection and Resolution Time: Users report faster identification and handling of incidents.
Enhanced Visibility: Provides thorough insights into security operations.
Reduced Alert Fatigue: Minimizes unnecessary alerts through effective integrations.
Efficient Threat Management: Integrations streamline and bolster security measures.

Splunk Enterprise Security is actively used across industries for threat detection, phishing protection, and log aggregation. Organizations employ its capabilities for monitoring systems and incident response, particularly in Security Operation Centers for managing cybersecurity incidents. Features like correlation searches are vital for identifying threats and unusual behaviors, aiding in compliance and proactive monitoring of potential security risks. It's a critical tool for managing events and insights in corporate environments.

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WhatsUp Gold stands out with its comprehensive network monitoring, dynamic mapping, and real-time alerts, offering essential tools for managing extensive IT infrastructures.

WhatsUp Gold provides robust capabilities in network visibility through dynamic mapping and NetFlow analysis. The platform's interactive topology aids in pinpointing issues effectively. Auto-discovery ensures complete network device tracking. While offering an intuitive interface and integration with Cisco ServiceNow, users find server performance monitoring useful for incident handling. However, improvements are anticipated in application monitoring and Active Directory integration. The pricing model and customization options leave room for enhancement. Despite these, users benefit from its integrated dashboards for immediate device health checks and network updates, making it beneficial for large-scale infrastructure management.

What features does WhatsUp Gold offer?

Network Monitoring: Provides continuous oversight of network components
Dynamic Mapping: Offers visual representation of network topology
NetFlow Analysis: Delivers insights into bandwidth utilization
Threshold Alerts: Notifies users upon reaching set performance thresholds
Auto-Discovery: Detects devices automatically for complete network coverage

What benefits should users expect from reviews?

Comprehensive Visibility: Enhanced understanding of network elements
Real-Time Monitoring: Immediate insights into network and device status
Cost-Effectiveness: Competitive solution suitable for expansive networks
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies the management of complex networks

Organizations in sectors like telecommunications, education, and healthcare utilize WhatsUp Gold for their network monitoring needs. Telecom companies track switches and routers, educational institutions manage bandwidth usage, and healthcare facilities monitor device availability to ensure seamless operations.

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Sample Customers

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

Artoni Trasporti, Austin Independent School District, Banca Marche, Burke County North Carolina, Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine, Clayco, Community Integrated Care, Desca, Deutsche Bergbau, Flexi-Van, Gropper, Hamleys, Hammonds Furniture, Knowledge IT, Idras S.P.A., Sibeg, Swann Engineering, Trivium Lindenhof

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