We performed a comparison between Ixia Hawkeye and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Our customer was happiest with the price of this product."
"The most valuable feature is the deployment because it's very easy to deploy real flow through the network."
"The ease of setup is the most valuable aspect of this solution. It's easy to set up and run tests."
"It empowers network administrators to access specialized and detailed views for specific tests, including video streaming and performance related to specific applications like video games."
"The ability to manipulate data in Splunk is unparalleled. Splunk’s powerful, flexible query language can morph difficult to understand log formats into usable data."
"Splunk has machine learning which is a valuable feature."
"The reporting aspect is good and it does what I need it to do."
"Splunk Enterprise Security comes with 300 pre-deployed use cases that can be easily customized to meet the specific needs of our organization, without the need to purchase additional tools."
"It's basically one of the best SIEM products on the market."
"We can automatically suspend or terminate suspicious sessions."
"What I really like is that even if you have already collected the data, you can extract fields and can build searches."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Splunk is."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Ixia has one flaw, which is that they do not print the license code on the paper licenses that are shipped to the customers."
"Improvements in network performance are essential."
"You can't delete more than one thing at a time. It would be great to be able to highlight three out of five things and delete them, whether it's a test or an actual report."
"The customization of tests and even the results can be improved."
"If you monitor too much, you can lose performance on your systems."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"It can be tough to determine if you are getting all of the value out of your investment at times."
"DMC should be a little more intuitive with better dashboarding. Seeing the cause of data flow can be tough to track down."
"There is a definite learning curve to starting out."
"The CIM model is the method Splunk uses to normalize data and categorize its important parts, but it is quite complex."
"I would like additional features in different programming models with the support for writing queries in SQL or other languages, such as C#, Java, or some other type of query definitions."
"The UI can be difficult to understand for non-technical people."
Ixia Hawkeye is ranked 53rd in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Ixia Hawkeye is rated 9.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Ixia Hawkeye writes "A valuable tool for optimizing network performance and security with comprehensive network monitoring capabilities, user-friendly interface, and flexibility for scripting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". Ixia Hawkeye is most compared with ThousandEyes, Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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