We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Splunk Cloud Platform 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 like the indexing of the logs."
"The most valuable thing is that this solution is widely used for work management and research. It's easy to jump into the security use case with the same technology."
"It is scalable."
"It's open-source and free to use."
"The most valuable feature is the search function, which allows me to go directly to the target to see the specific line a customer is searching for."
"The product has huge integration varieties available."
"ELK documentation is very good, so never needed to contact technical support."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"Index manager is most valuable because we do not have to bother about internal storage. It is all managed by the Splunk team."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The Splunk search is powerful compared to similar solutions. We get millions of data points within seconds."
"It's made searching for data easier. Users like it. We're still in the migration process, but overall, it's a lot easier to use."
"It has end-to-end visibility into our cloud-native environment, which is pretty important for us. About 80% of our infrastructure is on AWS."
"The data management and instant search features are the most valuable ones for us, as they allow us to instantly retrieve information needed for reports and security compliance."
"I can trace an event back to its root cause. I can find the root cause instead of just looking at the symptoms across different things."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its flexibility and readiness because it's already prebuilt, and everything is click-to-go."
"The tool should improve its scalability."
"The setup process is complex. You need a solid working knowledge of networking, operating systems, and a little programming."
"There is room for improvement in the Kibana dashboard and in the asset management for the program."
"In terms of improvement, there could be more automation in responding to and evaluating detections."
"Technical support could respond faster."
"We are paying dearly for the guy who is working on the ELK Stack. That knowledge is quite rare and hard to come by. For difficulty and availability of resources, I would rate it a five out of 10."
"I would like more ways to manage permissions and restrict access to certain users."
"Email notification should be done the same way as Logentries does it."
"There could be better searches, but mainly, it needs to improve the performance with a vast amount of data. That will make it better and easier to use."
"The on-premises version of Splunk includes all the integrations, while the Cloud platform lacks certain integrations and is limited in terms of the number of supported apps."
"From an enterprise standpoint, we are more limited in terms of what data we can export and how we can present it."
"The security connection should have a seamless integration. Other than that, the way we are using it, so far, it seems quite good."
"I have not come across anything that I would consider missing as such. If anything, sometimes we have dashboards that would not go into the dark mode. It is a minor issue, but it is the only thing that I wish was there. The dark mode would definitely help."
"Splunk Cloud Platform needs to be made more user-friendly because it's not user-friendly."
"Although there is documentation available, it is really hard for me to find relevant topics on what it is that I'm searching for."
"It needs to mature; it's just getting established in the industry on a wider scale."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 31 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Splunk Cloud Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and IBM Security QRadar, whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Check Point Security Management, AppInsights and Panther. See our Elastic Security vs. Splunk Cloud Platform report.
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