Devo vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 22, 2023
 

Categories and Ranking

Devo
Ranking in Log Management
27th
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
18th
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
AIOps (14th)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in Log Management
1st
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
1st
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
295
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Devo is 0.5%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 10.1%, down from 12.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Unique Categories:
Log Management
0.3%
IT Operations Analytics
5.7%
 

Featured Reviews

KG
Dec 7, 2021
True multi-tenancy, flexible, responsive support, and offers real-time search capabilities
We really use the core feature, which is log management. We bring in and ingest all of the different log sources for our customers and then run our TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) against these for threat detection. I find the true multi-tenancy to be very valuable. We are able to put all of our detection rules onto our master tenant, and then run those to our sub-tenants when we're looking for all of the detections and alerts. It's essentially the core capability with the kind of vertical app for all of our TTPs that run across our different subdomains. A big selling point to me is the multi-tenancy. First, we give permission to our clients to log into their domain, and second, we can run different analysis detection rules on different domains, depending on their business vertical. Some of our clients are in the aerospace industry and some are in biotech. They have different concerns than other domains do, so we can write TTPs or detection rules specifically for them because of the multi-tenancy. It doesn't conflict with everybody else. It's not a one size fits all approach, so the multi-tenancy feature is a very key attribute of why we went forward with Devo.
NC
Jun 13, 2024
Helped improve our organization’s ability to ingest and normalize data but should work better out of the box
It should work better out of the box and have better use cases that would not require my intervention. For example, if I install an antivirus and endpoint protection on my computer, I don't need to do much. But to get any value from Splunk, I need to work hard on it. In the next release, they should include machine learning-based rules that would streamline the process of finding anomalies. For real-time detection, I would not say that Splunk is the best. If you experience a problem and go to Splunk to look at the dashboard, then it's in real-time. Because of the way Splunk works, I wouldn't get an alert in real-time.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Devo has a really good website for creating custom configurations."
"The strength of Devo is not only in that it is pretty intuitive, but it gives you the flexibility and creativity to merge feeds. The prime examples would be using the synthesis or union tables that give you phenomenal capabilities... The ability to use a synthesis or union table to combine all those feeds and make heads or tails of what's going on, and link it to go down a thread, is functionality that I hadn't seen before."
"The querying and the log-retention capabilities are pretty powerful. Those provide some of the biggest value-add for us."
"The user interface is really modern. As an end-user, there are a lot of possibilities to tailor the platform to your needs, and that can be done without needing much support from Devo. It's really flexible and modular. The UI is very clean."
"The alerting is much better than I anticipated. We don't get as many alerts as I thought we would, but that nobody's fault, it's just the way it is."
"In traditional BI solutions, you need to wait a lot of time to have the ability to create visualizations with the data and to do searches. With this kind of platform, you have that information in real-time."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the ability that Devo has to ingest data. From the previous SIEM that I came from and helped my company administer, it really was the type of system where data was parsed on ingest. This meant that if you didn't build the parser efficiently or correctly, sometimes that would bring the system to its knees. You'd have a backlog of processing the logs as it was ingesting them."
"The most useful feature for us, because of some of the issues we had previously, was the simplicity of log integrations. It's much easier with this platform to integrate log sources that might not have standard logging and things like that."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Enterprise Security is website activity monitoring."
"Splunk has helped improve our company's resilience level."
"It's basically one of the best SIEM products on the market."
"It is very simple to tweak or write a small piece of glue code to go ahead and create a new dashboard for a business unit to make near real-time decisions to focus more on other geographies when launching the product."
"Internal tracking is helpful because we do not like to deal with multiple ticketing systems, and I am not a fan of ServiceNow. We are able to keep everything internal and utilize Enterprise Security."
"The additional vendors we've brought on board, particularly the elastic, have been quite beneficial."
"Splunk Enterprise Security helped improve our organization’s ability to ingest and normalize data."
"Support is quick and competent."
 

Cons

"Where Devo has room for improvement is the data ingestion and parsing. We tend to have to work with the Devo support team to bring on and ingest new sources of data."
"There's room for improvement within the GUI. There is also some room for improvement within the native parsers they support. But I can say that about pretty much any solution in this space."
"One major area for improvement for Devo... is to provide more capabilities around pre-built monitoring. They're working on integrations with different types of systems, but that integration needs to go beyond just onboarding to the platform. It needs to include applications, out-of-the-box, that immediately help people to start monitoring their systems. Such applications would include dashboards and alerts, and then people could customize them for their own needs so that they aren't starting from a blank slate."
"The price is one problem with Devo."
"We only use the core functionality and one of the reasons for this is that their security operation center needs improvement."
"There's always room to reduce the learning curve over how to deal with events and machine data. They could make the machine data simpler."
"I would like to have the ability to create more complex dashboards."
"Some basic reporting mechanisms have room for improvement. Customers can do analysis by building Activeboards, Devo’s name for interactive dashboards. This capability is quite nice, but it is not a reporting engine. Devo does provide mechanisms to allow third-party tools to query data via their API, which is great. However, a lot of folks like or want a reporting engine, per se, and Devo simply doesn't have that. This may or may not be by design."
"Sometimes, there is latency in the logs."
"The Enterprise Security app could be improved. We have had trouble with it working from the first day."
"Previously, they developed custom connectors or add-ons for a lot of applications. But that number can be upgraded still. There are a lot of applications in the world that are not supported."
"Its setup is a little bit complex for a distributed environment. Their support can also be better. If we miss the response for more than a week, they usually close the case. Sometimes, it can take us more than a week to reply."
"The support that is included with the standard licensing fee is very bad."
"The solution could use a different licensing model."
"The GUI can be improved. Splunk has always suffered from having a kind of goofy UI, it needs some updating."
"While Splunk offers SOAR as a separate product, integrating it into the next version of Splunk Enterprise Security as a unified solution would be beneficial."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the pricing a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
"Devo is definitely cheaper than Splunk. There's no doubt about that. The value from Devo is good. It's definitely more valuable to me than QRadar or LogRhythm or any of the old, traditional SIEMs."
"Devo was very cost-competitive... Devo did come with that 400 days of hot data, and that was not the case with other products."
"The way Devo prices things is based on the amount of data, and I wish the tiers had more granularity. Maybe at this point they do, but when we first negotiated with them, there were only three or four tiers."
"Devo is a hosted or subscription-based solution, whereas before, we purchased QRadar, so we owned it and just had to pay a maintenance fee. We've encountered this with some other products, too, where we went over to subscription-based. Our thought process is that with subscription based, the provider hosts and maintains the tool, and it's offsite. That comes with some additional fees, but we were able to convince our upper management it was worth the price. We used to pay under 10k a year for maintenance, and now we're paying ten times that. It was a relatively tough sell to our management, but I wonder if we have a choice anymore; this is where the market is."
"Pricing is based on the number of gigabytes of ingestion by volume, and it's on a 30-day average. If you go over one day, that's not a big deal as long as the average is what you expected it to be."
"I'm not involved in the financial aspect, but I think the licensing costs are similar to other solutions. If all the solutions have a similar cost, Devo provides more for the money."
"[Devo was] in the ballpark with at least a couple of the other front-runners that we were looking at. Devo is a good value and, given the quality of the product, I would expect to pay more."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive but the solution is equipped with a lot of features."
"We have an unlimited one, and we pay yearly, but I don't know how much it costs. Previously, I worked for a startup, and when they started building it up, it was complicated for them because they didn't have the budget for that many licenses. It was very costly for them. So, startups might find it a little bit problematic because of the licensing, but for bigger companies, there is no issue."
"I think we recently switched to the SVC pricing compared to the ingest pricing."
"The cost is on the high end, which makes it difficult for some organizations to use."
"The solution is costly."
"It is quite expensive."
"It is pretty straightforward and based on the sizing. If I compare it with other competitors, it makes sense."
"I work on the technical side, so I don't know precise figures. However, I know that Splunk is a premium product, so it's somewhat costly. Still, you get a lot of unique features for the money."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Devo?
Devo has a really good website for creating custom configurations.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?
Devo is taking on the market leaders, and their pricing is commensurate with that strategy. Core and additional features Devo provide guidance around and help in making value-based pricing discussi...
What needs improvement with Devo?
The price is one problem with Devo. Huawei, Lenovo, and Gigabyte are all cheaper than Devo. I rate Devo's price an eight out of ten because it is expensive.
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
 

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Sample Customers

United States Air Force, Rubrik, SentinelOne, Critical Start, NHL, Panda Security, Telefonica, CaixaBank, OpenText, IGT, OneMain Financial, SurveyMonkey, FanDuel, H&R Block, Ulta Beauty, Manulife, Moneylion, Chime Bank, Magna International, American Express Global Business Travel
Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
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