We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The sky is the limit because the solution is a flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"It is an efficient solution."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"We have a more secure, robust environment, which keeps the harmful software out of the zone required."
"Splunk has helped improve our company's resilience level."
"Speeds up root cause analysis and can help identify issues that your organization never realized were occurring."
"The solution helped reduce our alert volume."
"Splunk has significantly reduced the time in performing the task of aggregating logs, reviewing as well as time spent during investigations."
"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."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The breadth of the data sources that Splunk can ingest data from is broad and deep and it does an exemplary job at handling structured data."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Prometheus can be initially difficult for users since it has its query language, PromQL. The minimalistic interface is complicated to understand. They need to improve their interface so that users who don't know PromQL can also use it. You can only leverage the tool when you know PromQL."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"The administration of the cluster and app deployment to indexers or search heads can be done only using ssh access and command line, there is no GUI tools for that."
"I would like some additional AI capabilities to provide additional information about things going wrong and things going well."
"It takes time to train people."
"Being a SIEM solution with a centralized dashboard, we would like to have more options to customize it."
"The product could be cheaper."
"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."
"The support that is included with the standard licensing fee is very bad."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 227 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". 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 ". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and VMware Aria Operations for Applications, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our Prometheus vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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