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Evolven vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

Evolven
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
24th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
403
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 1.2%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 13.4%, down from 24.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security13.4%
Evolven1.2%
Other85.4%
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

MF
Business Analyst at Swisscom
Provides visualization of risk levels. However, alerting needs improvement.
Our primary use case is operational analytics. It gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before. It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency. Provides visualization of risk levels. Alerting needs improvement. Less than one year.
Sathis-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Bank of America
Helps us detect cyber threats quickly and integrate multiple feeds effectively
Overall, the product is good, but when it comes to some infrastructure issues, we have to dig into more logs. There is no straightforward indication of an issue. Health check kind of dashboards are not available. More AI would help us, and more optimization, since security products run more queries. The AI module could suggest solutions, optimizing queries or workload balancing. If the product itself advises on running queries during peak times, it would be similar to what ChatGPT currently offers. We see quite a few issues on stability. Even last week, we faced something, and identifying bottlenecks is not easy. We need more SMEs, and there is no mechanism to tell us about indexer or search head issues. Self-monitoring dashboards could be beneficial. The technical support still requires more improvement. Often, primary support takes a lot of time and forwards most solutions to the engineering side. The primary support team has very limited knowledge to provide.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency."
"It provides visualization of risk levels."
"It gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before."
"Splunk's visualizations make it easy for users to understand the data."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards are a key asset."
"I like the ease of setting up dashboards on Splunk. They're easy to create, manage, alter, and share. You can fine-tune them any way you see fit."
"Correlation search, in general, is valuable because it allows us to search multiple data sources easily."
"Splunk has many good apps and has a contribution from all security vendors."
"The Splunk user community and forum are most valuable."
"Everything I'm seeing now in Splunk Enterprise Security is effective, especially the AI and the Attack Analyzer, which I found particularly impressive."
"They are a good partner for Google Cloud. It provides great visibility, threat detection, and proactive mitigation of risks for our mutual consumers."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"My experience with Splunk Enterprise Security has been very good, although I encounter a minor issue with time limit exit errors when filtering data over longer durations."
"The optimization of filters, which is easily achievable in software like Tableau, is not as straightforward in Splunk XML."
"The product was difficult to back up the first time."
"I've noticed that onboarding data from various multi-cloud sources and diverse products, such as security network devices, can be challenging."
"It does not give us permission to implement on-premise so we implement them on the cloud."
"It could be more user friendly, in terms of the end-user experience."
"Some additional features that should be included in the next release of Splunk Enterprise Security are an integrated Attack Range, not as a separate solution, providing a way to test the rules in the production environment."
"Splunk Enterprise Security can be improved mainly from the user interface regarding the visualizations. They are working on it, yet there are only five to ten very basic visualizations."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Splunk is definitely not a cheap solution. It is an expensive product."
"While some clients find the cost of Splunk Enterprise Security to be on the higher end, its pricing is comparable to other SIEM solutions."
"It is a pretty high cost solution, but if your organization has the funds, it can bring many benefits."
"I think the price could be improved."
"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."
"The pricing modules could be improved."
"It is pretty straightforward and based on the sizing. If I compare it with other competitors, it makes sense."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive."
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Comparison Review

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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 26, 2015
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business125
Midsize Enterprise61
Large Enterprise278
 

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Sample Customers

Aegon, Barclays, Chubb, Deloitte, DLL, HP, Huber, imshealth, ING, JPMorgan Chase, Moody's, Quintiles, Southboro Medical Group, Tullet Prebon, VSE Corporation, Western Union
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