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ExtremeAnalytics 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

ExtremeAnalytics
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
15th
Average Rating
0.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Network Management Applications (26th)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
418
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of ExtremeAnalytics is 2.4%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 13.4%, down from 23.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security13.4%
ExtremeAnalytics2.4%
Other84.2%
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Dushan  Niranga - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Connex Information Technologies
User-friendly initial setup, reliable, and effective wireless intrusion prevention
ExtremeAnalytics is used for reporting and monitoring The most valuable feature of ExtremeAnalytics is wireless intrusion prevention. ExtremeAnalytics could improve application control. The URL filtering is not working properly. We have had issues with the reports and heat maps not working as…
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

"The solution's scalability is a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of ExtremeAnalytics is wireless intrusion prevention."
"The initial setup of ExtremeAnalytics is straightforward and user-friendly."
"The application response latency is valuable and suitable for troubleshooting."
"The Splunk queries are valuable."
"It is a one stop shop as a full monitoring and alerting solution for operations and application analysis for most of our back-end systems."
"AI in Splunk Enterprise Security improves the accuracy, and the AI feature has helped me reduce false positive alerts, which prevented me from wasting time on junk alerts and separating the noise from the actual true positive alerts."
"The correlation searches (properly configured) populate the Incident Management dashboard and provide me a quick birds-eye view of my most important concerns."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it helps with our use cases to detect anomalies in our data and it is important to my company since we have a lot of data on different logs on the systems."
"This solution is the best security solution."
"There are lots of free learning materials on their website."
"The main advantage of the solution is that it provides an easy setup platform in the new environment."
 

Cons

"There are issues with cloud distribution of the servers, and it could be faster."
"ExtremeAnalytics could improve application control. The URL filtering is not working properly. We have had issues with the reports and heat maps not working as expected. We have been receiving download errors when attempting to retrieve the heat maps and reports."
"The solution's stability needs to be improved."
"Some of the search functions can be better. There has been a lot of talk at the conference about the update of SPL before each iteration. That will be a lot of help."
"It needs to improve the way to install third-party apps and enable installation without logging into splunk.com."
"The problem with the product is that the price of Splunk is very high."
"The product is relatively expensive."
"One of the biggest challenges is its licensing cost, especially for organizations that ingest large volumes of data."
"When you get into large amounts of data, Splunk can get pretty slow."
"A problem that we had recently had was we licensed it based on how much data you upload to them every day. Something changed in one our applications, and it started generating three to four times as many logs and. So now, we are trying to assemble something with parts of the Splunk API to warn ourselves, then turn it off and throttle it back more. However it would be better if they had something systematically built into the product that if you're getting close to your license, then to shut things down."
"The ticketing platform could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is an eight out of ten."
"The price of the solution is approximately $100 to $120 and is paid annually."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is a worthwhile investment given the comprehensive range of features it offers."
"It would be nice if the pricing were cheaper. However, we did purchase it."
"It is expensive, but it is a good tool. It is worth the cost."
"Splunk is really expensive."
"The pricing of Splunk Enterprise Security is somewhat high, but comparing it with its benefits, it's acceptable. It depends on the type of business."
"I think the price could be improved."
"Splunk licensing model might seem expensive but with all the gain in functionalities you will have compared to traditional SIEM solutions I think it’s worth the price."
"I work on the technical side, so I don't know precise figures. However, I know that Splunk is a premium product, so it's somewhat costly. Still, you get a lot of unique features for the money."
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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
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business129
Midsize Enterprise65
Large Enterprise285
 

Questions from the Community

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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...
 

Also Known As

Extreme Application Analytics, Purview
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Sample Customers

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Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
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