User Reviews of ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) & Splunk Enterprise Security
Updated April 2025
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ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) review
Ramnesh Dubey
Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Allows for monitoring logs according to industry standards within ESM but has a...
The first limitation is with the ArcSight Data Storage Manager (ADSM). ArcSight's total capacity is currently capped at 12 TB. This becomes an issue if a customer needs a longer real-time data retention period, such as exceeding 90 days or reaching a year or even ten months. Increasing the disk space beyond 12 TB is not currently possible....
Splunk Enterprise Security review
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN
CTO at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log...
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has...
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