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ExtremeAnalytics vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 13, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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
17th
Average Rating
0.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Network Management Applications (30th)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
366
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of ExtremeAnalytics is 1.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 22.7%, down from 28.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security22.7%
ExtremeAnalytics1.1%
Other76.2%
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Dushan  Niranga - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
Kyle Vernham - PeerSpot reviewer
Built-in searches and unified data access streamline alert investigation and boosts analyst efficiency
The two features I appreciate the most in Splunk Enterprise Security are the built-in searches, which have been very easy for us to get started with right out of the box, and the fact that it accesses all of our other systems. You can access it as a pane of glass rather than having to search individually. We also have the option to compare our analysts from our service to service. Splunk Enterprise Security helps our SOC team prioritize and investigate high-fidelity alerts more effectively by providing a more in-depth look and the ability to access a lot more of our data. Instead of jumping from several segmented systems, it allows us to have everything brought together in one place. For example, you have to move from our purview to our build system and to Splunk Enterprise Security, and it enables us to streamline that process. The built-in features of Splunk Enterprise Security, which we recently procured, have given us a good starting point and demonstrated the value of the product, providing an easy way to sell it to our company. The ease of getting everything into our purview helps us, and it serves as a good start for the investigation part in one location rather than what we usually have, which is jumping from system to system to system. Splunk Enterprise Security plays a role in our company's strategy to combat insider threats and advanced persistent threats by currently being in its technical test phase. We are still rolling it out, and it should help us find any insider threats based on information that our policy states should not be present in our system. Splunk Enterprise Security's risk-based alerting (RBA) has impacted our alert volume and analyst productivity because we've got many different systems feeding into it. However, it has helped to make it easier for our analysts to go through a set of events rather than 100 alerts. RBA allows us to streamline the process and customize it for our analysts. When it comes to leveraging Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards and visualizations to communicate security posture to executives, it's pretty straightforward for any type of information. The visualization is easy to understand, but I haven't had any direct conversations with our executives.

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 application response latency is valuable and suitable for troubleshooting."
"It gives me notifications of notable events."
"The technical support has been very good. They are very responsive and have been helpful."
"The correlation capabilities are the first value that our clients say they like with Splunk."
"Splunk is quite flexible for our customers. Splunk does not filter from a specific lock, you can define it later."
"The SIEM is the most valuable feature of the product."
"The ability to view all of these different logs, then drilling down into specific times or into specific data sources, has proved to be the greatest aspect in decreasing our troubleshooting overhead time."
"Splunk Enterprise Security offers two valuable features: the Common Information Model and arrangement modules."
"The additional vendors we've brought on board, particularly the elastic, have been quite beneficial."
 

Cons

"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."
"There are issues with cloud distribution of the servers, and it could be faster."
"Splunk is query-based, which is not the case with most cybersecurity tools. It is based on search queries and can be difficult to use. It would be good if they can make it easier to understand how to create search queries. They can improve the knowledge base for better understanding. To create your dashboard, you need to have a search query. We have multiple firewalls in our company, and we need a dashboard for them. It would be helpful if a default firewall dashboard is included in Splunk to make monitoring easier. If a dashboard is available for a security device, the operation part will be more efficient. We won't have to follow a manual process for this."
"The solution could improve by making it more business analysis oriented. The way it is now is designed more for developers."
"I find the process for customizing, developing, testing, deploying, and refining detections in Splunk Enterprise Security to be challenging at times."
"Custom visualizations are real hard. While the default visualizations are good, creating enhanced visualizations are complex."
"Splunk does not provide any default threat intelligence like Microsoft Sentinel, but you can integrate any third-party threat intelligence with Splunk. By default, no threat intelligence suite is there, whereas, with IBM QRadar or Microsoft Sentinel, the default feature of threat intelligence is there. It is free. If Splunk can provide a default threat intelligence suite, it would be better."
"There is a definite learning curve to starting out."
"My organization does not completely utilize risk-based alerting in Splunk Enterprise Security as it's not fully mature."
"Splunk Enterprise Security would benefit from a more robust rule engine to reduce false positives."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is approximately $100 to $120 and is paid annually."
"The pricing is an eight out of ten."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is affordable."
"It's a yearly subscription."
"The tool's licensing is good and we haven't received any complaints from the team handling it."
"Pricing is pretty fair."
"The price of Splunk is reasonable."
"Truly evaluate the data you want to ingest and go slow. Pulling in data that can provide no use to your mission only wastes data against your license."
"The pricing of Splunk Enterprise Security is high."
"I am not personally involved with the pricing of the solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business109
Midsize Enterprise49
Large Enterprise255
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with ExtremeAnalytics?
The solution's stability needs to be improved.
What is your primary use case for ExtremeAnalytics?
It gives us insight into the network health. This helps us understand what is wrong with the limit of the wireless solution or device.
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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