We performed a comparison between Elastic Search and Splunk User Behavior Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Indexing and Search solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can easily collect all the data and view historical trends using the product. We can view the applications and identify the issues effectively."
"The most valuable features of Elastic Enterprise Search are it's cloud-ready and we do a lot of infrastructure as code. By using ELK, we're able to deploy the solution as part of our ISC deployment."
"The solution is valuable for log analytics."
"It provides deep visibility into your cloud and distributed applications, from microservices to serverless architectures. It quickly identifies and resolves the root causes of issues, like gaining visibility into all the cloud-based and on-prem applications."
"The solution offers good stability."
"The products comes with REST APIs."
"The initial setup is very easy for small environments."
"It gives us the possibility to store and query this data and also do this efficiently and securely and without delays."
"Because of some of the visualizations that we utilize, we are able to understand strange, unusual traffic on our networks."
"Splunk is more user-friendly than some competing solutions we tried."
"The most valuable features are the indexing and powerful search features."
"It's straightforward in terms of configuration and troubleshooting and log management and monitoring as well. These are the edge points in addition to it being a modular solution where you can capitalize on your current licenses with extra licensing models, which can match the customer's business requirement and it can help the customer to design or to actually plan for their own roadmap."
"The solution is definitely scalable."
"The product is at the forefront of auto-remediation networking. It's great."
"It's easily scalable."
"This is a good security product."
"The metadata gets stored along with indexes and isn't queryable."
"I would like to see more integration for the solution with different platforms."
"The solution's integration and configuration are not easy. Not many people know exactly what to do."
"The reports could improve."
"They're making changes in their architecture too frequently."
"There are potential improvements based on our client feedback, like unifying the licensing cost structure."
"We see the need for some improvements with Elasticsearch. We would like the Elasticsearch package to include training lessons for our staff."
"Elastic Enterprise Search could improve its SSL integration easier. We should not need to go to the back-end servers to do configuration, we should be able to do it on the GUI."
"In the future I would like to see simplified statistics and analytical threats."
"It could be easier to scale the solution if you are using it on-premise, not in the cloud."
"The initial setup was complex because some of the configurations that we required needed customization."
"They should work to add more built-in correlation searches and more use cases based on worldwide customer experiences. They need more ready-made use cases."
"I'm not aware of any lacking features."
"The price of Splunk UBA is too high."
"We want to have an automated system for bot hunting that enables us to detect anomalies predictively based on historical data. It would be helpful if Splunk included process mining as an alternative option. We have a threat workflow, but it would be useful if we could supplement that with some process mining capabilities over time."
"I would like improved downward integration with other tools such as McAfee and other GCP solutions."
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Elastic Search is ranked 1st in Indexing and Search with 59 reviews while Splunk User Behavior Analytics is ranked 2nd in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) with 17 reviews. Elastic Search is rated 8.2, while Splunk User Behavior Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Elastic Search writes "Played a crucial role in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk User Behavior Analytics writes "Easy to configure and easy to use solution that integrates with many applications and scripts ". Elastic Search is most compared with Faiss, Milvus, Azure Search, Pinecone and Exalead, whereas Splunk User Behavior Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Identity, IBM Security QRadar, Varonis Datalert and Vectra AI. See our Elastic Search vs. Splunk User Behavior Analytics report.
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