We performed a comparison between Grafana and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"The solution has good features."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"Splunk Enterprise Security offers valuable features like seamless integration and a SQL-standard Structured Query Language for easy searching."
"The alerts are very effective."
"The tool helps with advanced reports and keeps the system scalable and flexible. It provides a clear picture of the current status of any incidents. As a CISO, I see a lot of potential for future innovation, which is interesting. I've noticed better performance, especially with the reports."
"We can ingest and correlate data from virtually any type of system."
"It scales better in the cloud than on-premise."
"It is the best tool if you have a complex environment or if data ingestion is too huge."
"Integrity with many vendors: This simplifies the implementation and integration with different devices"
"Easy to deploy and simple to use."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"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."
"Splunk's implementation process for managing multiple indexes can be complex, especially when dealing with a large number of components."
"The CIM model is the method Splunk uses to normalize data and categorize its important parts, but it is quite complex."
"The only thing which can be improved is that they are too subjective on whom their Splunk4Good initiative can be applied. They market it as you only need to be a nonprofit, but there is more to it."
"I would like additional features in different programming models with the support for writing queries in SQL or other languages, such as C#, Java, or some other type of query definitions."
"It is a hugely complicated product."
"I find the graphical options really limited and you don't have enough control over how to display the data that you want to see."
"Enterprise security: Splunk must work on clarifying the solution to customers and explain how to gain more from it."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, 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 ". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Grafana vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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