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Evolven vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Evolven
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
16th
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
7.6
Number of Reviews
312
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 25.0%, down from 29.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

MF
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.
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log analysis
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has also a query language in which they search their log files, but once you have identified the log file that you want to use for further security correlation, you want to very quickly transport that into your SIEM tool, such as Microsoft Sentinel. That is something that Splunk could make a little bit less painful because it is a lot of effort to find that log file and forward it. An API with Microsoft Sentinel or a similar SIEM tool would be a good idea.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It provides visualization of risk levels."
"It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency."
"I have noticed a return on investment with Splunk Enterprise Security, as it delivers substantial value for money."
"It allows for transparency into IT metrics for insightful business analytics."
"The ability to ingest any data and display it in a way that anyone can understand."
"This solution helps us increase our productivity."
"If I need to integrate devices for logs, it is easier with Splunk. We can integrate different applications, network devices, and databases. It is also very rich in documents. It is the best."
"The ability to rapidly diagnose problems in production and non-production, across hundreds of log files, is the most valuable feature."
"They are a good partner for Google Cloud. It provides great visibility, threat detection, and proactive mitigation of risks for our mutual consumers."
"Splunk would be my choice for the presentation layer because it comes with inbuilt reports and a dashboard that you can customize."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive."
"There is improvement needed when importing from some types of data sources."
"There are limitations with Splunk not detecting all user activity, especially on mainframes and network devices."
"The high cost of Splunk Enterprise Security prevented us from using its full capabilities."
"Splunk could be improved by reducing the cost. The cost is one of the biggest challenges for us in keeping to our production requirements."
"I'd love to see more integrations, which is one of the primary points of the key node with Splunk Enterprise Security."
"Having analysts put their notes directly within the investigation feature in the incident review would be beneficial."
"Splunk needs local technical support."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I think we recently switched to the SVC pricing compared to the ingest pricing."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive."
"It is pretty straightforward and based on the sizing. If I compare it with other competitors, it makes sense."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is affordable."
"It is expensive. That is why many customers have moved to IBM QRadar. The price is definitely a challenge for customers."
"Regarding the product's pricing, I think it has always been difficult to have a conversation with Splunk."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is not a cheap product, but I think it is worth every dollar that you pay."
"Some of the insights that we have obtained as a part of using Splunk have greatly helped us in increasing our revenue in terms of selling our products."
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Financial Services Firm
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Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
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Government
7%
 

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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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