User Reviews of Splunk Enterprise Security & syslog-ng

Updated April 2025

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Splunk Enterprise Security review

ROBERT-CHRISTIAN
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...
syslog-ng review

RyanVargas
RyanVargas
Senior Director and Senior Systems Engineer (Dual Role), IT Infrastructure and Security at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It's a user-friendly open-source solution that can replace or augment a commercial...
I rate syslog-ng 10 out of 10. It's free and easy to use. It has built-in tools that help us index the various logs sent to it. It's a solid log product. If you're looking for a SIEM solution, syslog-ng will work as a stopgap measure at beginning of the project. It can also work as an injector for a true SIEM solution. You can send all the...

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