We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"The Elastic User Interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. You need to have some Javascript knowledge. We need that knowledge to develop new custom tests."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"Elastic APM has plenty of features, such as the Elastic server for Kibana and many additional plugins. It's a comprehensive tool when used as a logging platform."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The speed of the search engine"
"There are lots of free learning materials on their website."
"It has reduced the time to resolution, time to investigate, and time to troubleshoot for debugging issues."
"I have also been able to take advantage of some of the more complex statistical capabilities when analyzing logs."
"This is a straightforward solution, easy to configure."
"Positive features include replication capabilities, software development kits, and the architecture."
"Search language is easy to understand and teach to new users."
"The ability to quickly search logs, performance data, and other inputs has helped tremendously with troubleshooting."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"Elastic Observability is difficult to use. There are only three options for customization but this can be difficult for our use case. We do not have other options to choose the metrics shown, such as CPU or memory usage."
"The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"It requires a significant amount of relatively complex architecture once you push past the single server instance."
"More control with Splunk Cloud as it seems a bit limited. I used to manage an on-premise instance of Splunk Enterprise and really liked having more control over it."
"It can be tough to determine if you are getting all of the value out of your investment at times."
"Splunk could have more built-in use case presets that customers can build on and customize."
"Endpoint access is the only issue I can think to mention, even though the endpoint access we have with Cisco is fine."
"Splunk is not very user-friendly. It has a complex architecture in comparison to other solutions on the market."
"This is not really a monitoring solution."
"The complexity could be worked on so that it's even easier and faster."
Elastic Observability is ranked 13th in Log Management with 22 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 227 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". 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 ". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Sentry and Azure Monitor, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our Elastic Observability vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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