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Quest InTrust vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Quest InTrust
Ranking in Log Management
61st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in Log Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
306
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Quest InTrust is 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 7.4%, down from 11.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

it_user700032 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical support is knowledgeable and quick to respond
It is used for compliance Gathering information Scheduling It needs to have better reporting.  More than five years. We have not encountered any issues with stability. We have not encountered any issues with scalability. I would rate the technical support very well as they are…
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log analysis
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has also a query language in which they search their log files, but once you have identified the log file that you want to use for further security correlation, you want to very quickly transport that into your SIEM tool, such as Microsoft Sentinel. That is something that Splunk could make a little bit less painful because it is a lot of effort to find that log file and forward it. An API with Microsoft Sentinel or a similar SIEM tool would be a good idea.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"​I would rate the technical support very well as they are knowledgeable and quick to respond​."
"The compatibility with the add-ons helps us add more data in the same compatible format and use data models to elaborate and make it faster."
"On the cloud, we are pushing through less than half a petabyte of data. So far, it has been fairly stable because it runs on all the underlying AWS infrastructures."
"Splunk's visualizations make it easy for users to understand the data."
"Splunk Enterprise Security offers two valuable features: the Common Information Model and arrangement modules."
"The scalability of the solution is amazing because it can collect a lot of data and you can have your own structure to monitor this data."
"The correlation search functions that generate all the notables are valuable. That can get pretty complicated, and it handles that pretty well."
"The solution helped reduce our alert volume."
"This solution helps us increase our productivity."
 

Cons

"​It was very complex. There was poor native correlation. ​"
"​It needs to have better reporting. ​"
"On-premises scaling of the solution is a bit more limited than it is on the cloud."
"It is a hugely complicated product."
"I would like to see more SIEM functionality and a better ticket tool."
"It would be great if I could have a certain dialogue box in Splunk that uses innovative AI tools like ChatGPT, which are available now in the tech department."
"Sometimes, there is latency in the logs."
"More control with Splunk Cloud as it seems a bit limited. I used to manage an on-premise instance of Splunk Enterprise and really liked having more control over it."
"If it could be made available as a service, this would be much better than as a product."
"I'd say I am happy with the technical support, not elated. They provide great support, but sometimes they don't have the answers that I need."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Do a PoC. Make it detailed so it can help later."
"I think we recently switched to the SVC pricing compared to the ingest pricing."
"The pricing is based on the volume of data fed into it, which can lead to substantial costs. This pricing model is complex and unpredictable, making cost management difficult."
"I have no opinion on pricing."
"We have seen ROI and improvements as we have continued to use the product, but they are more reactive."
"Splunk Enterprise Security incurs a significant cost because of the amount of data we send, but we are fine with the value we're getting for that price."
"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."
"Splunk is priced higher than other solutions."
"The price is comparable."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
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Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
 

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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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