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Power Admin PA File Sight 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

Power Admin PA File Sight
Ranking in Log Management
73rd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in Log Management
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
418
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Power Admin PA File Sight is 0.3%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 7.0%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security7.0%
Power Admin PA File Sight0.3%
Other92.7%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

AntoSebastin - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Consultant - APAC at Logon Software
Good stability and preferred choice for DLP needs over other solutions
The customers who have the use case of monitoring the file server and want to know the user's activity. It's the Power Admin's requirement, actually. Power Admin has been recommended, plus Power Admin has some quick features in place of DLP features, actually I work with two solutions. Both…
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 customers who have the use case of monitoring the file server and want to know the user's activity. It's the Power Admin's requirement."
"I really appreciate the all-integrated SIEM feature of Splunk Enterprise Security, which serves as a one-stop shop to get all security tasks done."
"The risk-based alerting (RBA) is one of the valuable features."
"The stability and reliability of Splunk Enterprise Security is outstanding. It's a software and product that anybody can really pick up and use."
"It provides a risk score for each object, device, or user. We can then take action if they are at a higher risk."
"What Splunk calls operational intelligence: fast availability of operational data spread across several servers to prevent or react faster to outages or performance decreases."
"Splunk simplifies the information, and it gives you charts and different means of seeing that information, making it easily understandable for people."
"It allows us to digest the information, the data, the different data streams, so we can make decisions based upon information that we receive, and it is pretty robust."
"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."
 

Cons

"The setup takes half an hour. It will be a little complex."
"The UI sometimes can be laggy and not responsive."
"It would be nice to have more advanced UEBA in Splunk Enterprise Security. Additionally, it would be beneficial if they offered more threat intel feeds for free."
"Splunk ES could have more pre-built integrations and rules. The detection is fairly accurate, but it depends on the rules you create. Splunk's out-of-the-box configuration isn't that useful."
"Splunk should align its security principles with those of other vendors like SentinelOne. Splunk has mature APIs that can communicate with various security applications and devices. Splunk can process more to produce an understandable dashboard."
"Data retention can be better. If we want to look at the data for five months or six months, that is not available to us. We only have a history of 20 or 30 days. After that, the information gets lost. That is a drawback."
"The most significant challenges I face when using Splunk Enterprise Security for advanced threat detection are the false positive alerts."
"I've noticed that onboarding data from various multi-cloud sources and diverse products, such as security network devices, can be challenging."
"This is a costly solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Be upfront about your needs and expectations. Splunk is great to work with."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive."
"It is expensive. That is why many customers have moved to IBM QRadar. The price is definitely a challenge for customers."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is an expensive solution."
"The pricing modules could be improved."
"The price of Splunk Enterprise Security fluctuates based on the customer, but I believe it's quite costly, especially for our clientele."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is a worthwhile investment given the comprehensive range of features it offers."
"I think that most of the monitoring solutions are expensive."
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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%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business129
Midsize Enterprise65
Large Enterprise285
 

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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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Sample Customers

Bartling IT, Symantec, Pohlmann & Dimai GbR, 3M, L4U Library Software, Global Collect, On-Site Computer Solutions, Astra Tech Inc, TechProse, SysKon, Maine Medical Center, Presbyterian Foundation, Infineum, DDT
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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