We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"I can do everything remotely, including running PowerShell scripts or performing standard updates."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"SolarWinds dashboard is very fast. Also, their interface is very good, it looks very user-friendly. The product allows me to see a summary of the network being monitored at a glance."
"It is easy to use in any environment."
"The scalability of the solution is amazing because it can collect a lot of data and you can have your own structure to monitor this data."
"It has the ability to correlate data, analyze and review it."
"It has quite extensive support in terms of integration. If you want to do anything, there are tools for that."
"Splunk's interface is user-friendly, and it has apps and add-ons for most applications. We can easily normalize the data to make it readable and understand the logs. We easily get all the field extractions and enrichment done by using the apps and add-ons. This helps us understand the application logs because the raw data is useless unless we extract some useful information from it. These add-ons make it so much easier."
"The most valuable features in Splunk are the search function and the ability to run selected session reports. The session reports are important because I can use them to see what is going on in our environment weekly. Additionally, we can use the graph to see how often that particular event is happening."
"It provides logs in one place, so they are easy to find. It collects the logs from multiple places, then you have just one place where you see the whole flow from the front-end to the back-end."
"Positive features include replication capabilities, software development kits, and the architecture."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If they could combine everything into one product, that would be very helpful."
"Currently lacks integration with SMS services."
"They have had a rather large security breach in the past. It's cost some companies customers."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"This product could improve by adding cloud monitoring. I want SolarWinds NPM to do much more integration, and have more involvement in cloud monitoring, like AWS or Google, or Azure. I feel like it requires lots of improvement for cloud monitoring in NPM."
"The reporting module that got integrated into the system itself, used to be a standalone solution and I preferred that."
"The pricing can be better."
"The GUI can be improved. Splunk has always suffered from having a kind of goofy UI, it needs some updating."
"Although the technical support is adequate, there is still room for improvement."
"My company could benefit from doing more Splunk training with Splunk consultants teaching us how to use it."
"The CIM model is the method Splunk uses to normalize data and categorize its important parts, but it is quite complex."
"The administration of the cluster and app deployment to indexers or search heads can be done only using ssh access and command line, there is no GUI tools for that."
"The UI can be improved. Dashboards and reports can be better in terms of graphics."
"The training was mostly sales-focused, like how to monitor your sales. It was hard to then come back from doing the training and try to switch it to a cybersecurity focus because all the training we did was sales oriented. The basic training didn't really touch on any kind of cybersecurity use cases or anything like that. That would have been great to see in the training."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". 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 ". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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