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 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is the market leader."
"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 solution has made us more secure."
"We can automatically suspend or terminate suspicious sessions."
"The most valuable features for us include its robust log management capabilities, which allow us to efficiently handle and retain logs for extended periods as needed."
"Being able to track impossible travel logins and things of that nature is valuable. We can track user logins from various IPs, various countries, and at various times to see if everything adds up."
"We can quickly search for almost anything across many log sources in seconds."
"We solve issues that we previously could not since we now have the data."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"It is stable."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"I would like Splunk to add more integration. QRadar has many indications with more products than Splunk."
"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."
"If it could be made available as a service, this would be much better than as a product."
"Splunk Enterprise Security can provide more details and help CISOs resolve vulnerability situations better. The reason is that the tools we choose for data analysis and log collection cannot collect all the data and logs. Splunk Enterprise Security should help me with this, but it cannot."
"There are new services which are coming up. If Splunk can catch up with the speed of Amazon, and with the integration, instead of us waiting for another year or so, that would be good."
"Splunk is very expensive. The license is based on the volume of the logs ingested. I was responsible for managing the contract with our service integrator. I don't know the precise details of the competing solution, but I have heard that Splunk is more expensive than others. I don't know what the going rate is on the market, but I think there are at least two competitors that are less expensive. We have experienced a few issues with our service providers in terms of log filtering and ingestion, so we continue to pay a bit more per day for our logs."
"The upgrading process could be smoother."
"I would like some additional AI capabilities to provide additional information about things going wrong and things going well."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"The interface needs some work."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 246 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Prometheus. See our Splunk Enterprise Security vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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