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GroundWork Monitor vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

GroundWork Monitor
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
21st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (104th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (76th), Cloud Monitoring Software (50th)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
381
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of GroundWork Monitor is 1.7%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 14.4%, down from 26.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security14.4%
GroundWork Monitor1.7%
Other83.9%
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

it_user186582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PC/Client Server Analyst II at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
It's easy to setup and the plugins are easy to write. When we need to, the threshold is easy to change.
It's easy to setup and the plugins are easy to write. When we need to, the threshold is easy to change It would be nice to have a centralized client-settings management. At the moment, the client settings have to be changed individually. I've used it since 2011. The deployment of the new server…
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's easy to setup and the plugins are easy to write."
"The most valuable feature is that it's very good for log aggregation."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to transact in the cloud and its ability to onboard data easily with minimum connectors."
"It is user-friendly. It is more effective than other solutions. The support and help for troubleshooting and the documentation from Splunk make it very effective."
"Splunk Enterprise Security helped us with faster detection of threats."
"It has a low barrier to entry, but it is extremely extensible, allowing it to be tailored to highly specific use cases."
"The most valuable features include agility and Splunk Enterprise Security's ability to quickly search for alerted items, as well as the capacity to create custom alerts using the SQL language employed by Splunk."
"Splunk has facilitated the correlation of information security logs to look for incidents which could cause damage to the company's infrastructure, as well as financial losses from leaks."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has helped greatly improve the organization's business resilience."
 

Cons

"Deploying an agent leaves much to be desired."
"The first tier support is as bad as it is most places and getting worse all the time."
"The pricing of Splunk Enterprise Security is not very affordable, and I have seen many companies planning to leave because of cost concerns."
"Splunk Enterprise Security provides us with the relevant context to help guide our investigations, but it would be interesting to add even more context, for instance, in order to raise the level of risk."
"We had some connections issues with the solution at the beginning."
"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."
"However, for smaller organizations, the deployment and management can be expensive, leading them to choose other SIEM tools."
"There is improvement needed when importing from some types of data sources. Most of the time you have to do some customization for the data because not everything is working the way it should."
"I would like to see the asset and identity lookups be more automatic and less manual."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"While Splunk is more expensive than other solutions, we would still choose it because of its capabilities."
"Setup cost is cheap: It is free, it is user-friendly, and it is fast."
"It is a bit costly."
"The pricing is very complicated, and it is very pricey. You do require a lot of different licenses in order to get a comprehensive solution that is not just the SIEM solution."
"The pricing and licensing of the product are quite high."
"It would be nice if the pricing were cheaper. However, we did purchase it."
"I remember Splunk being relatively affordable. Kibana was more reasonable, but you get more with Splunk. If I was suggesting something, I would probably suggest Splunk because it is better to pay a little bit more and get a lot more."
"It is expensive. That is why many customers have moved to IBM QRadar. The price is definitely a challenge for customers."
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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
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business112
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise267
 

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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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