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Rootly vs Splunk Security Essentials comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Rootly
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Security Essentials
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
15th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
4.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (14th), Security Incident Response (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Rootly is 3.6%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Security Essentials is 1.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Rootly3.6%
Splunk Security Essentials1.7%
Other94.7%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

HJ
Manager at teshama
Seamless Slack incidents have standardized my workflows and have streamlined post mortems
Slack-based workflow in Rootly helps my team during incidents by simplifying incident management and workflows, easing writing post-mortems, supporting planned maintenance, and offering valuable team support for migration and training. It's streamlining our incident management process overall, and having everything automated and flexible is extremely valuable through automations. The best features Rootly offers are all-in-one incident management and an intuitive user-friendly GUI. I find the user interface highly intuitive because it's very easy to customize and navigate, even for new users, hence making the learning curve very comfortable and smooth. Rootly is very valuable, especially because it's very cost-effective. It's also very easy to use, and it has a very proactive and supportive customer support team. I have seen a return on investment as Rootly has made interactions smoother and more efficient. The speed of Rootly makes my work more productive.
reviewer2836941 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Centralized monitoring has given our SOC real-time visibility into security and application activity
When I first implemented Splunk Security Essentials in this environment, it took a week for each log source to onboard and to create use cases and implement the data model, CIM, etc., for production readiness. Training is mandatory, and we need at least the Splunk Security Essentials User certification because it is a very critical resource in the organization, as we are handling security logs. In my organization, Splunk Security Essentials is used not only by the SOC but also for monitoring logs across different teams, as it is important for handling both security and application logs, given its capability to manage unstructured logs. Splunk Security Essentials has dramatically impacted my organization, as without it, we were blind to what is happening from both a security and application perspective, and it provides vital visibility into the organization's operations.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"With the strategic approach of putting everyone in a Slack group to resolve incidents, we have reduced the percentage of incidents created in a month by thirty percent during the first three months of using Rootly."
"Rootly has positively impacted our organization because, in comparison to ObsGenie, the tool we used before Rootly, it is much more user-friendly, including the user interface and the whole approach to alerting and routing these alerts."
"Rootly is very valuable, especially because it's very cost-effective, very easy to use, and it has a very proactive and supportive customer support team."
"Rootly has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to receive the on-call alerts successfully, whereas before Rootly, we had issues missing alerts."
"We are focusing on security to ensure incidents are reported efficiently. In addition to that, for reporting purposes, we are utilizing our dashboards or creating new ones. We will be using free visualization tools for this purpose."
"Splunk Security Essentials has impacted my organization in that we have been getting the results that we wanted."
"They have a good catalog of plans to use to resist the attacks."
"Splunk Security Essentials has dramatically impacted my organization, as without it, we were blind to what is happening from both a security and application perspective, and it provides vital visibility into the organization's operations."
"I would have to rate Splunk Security Essentials a 10 out of 10 because it's free and there's tons of usable content."
"The network monitoring feature is particularly valuable for gathering information about users, login times, and other statistics."
 

Cons

"Regarding Rootly's AI capabilities, we had one incident when we lost alerting generally because Rootly crashed, and we did not like it."
"Rootly can be improved as it's slightly buggy for new features."
"The integration process could be easier, perhaps with the addition of AI to facilitate smoother integrations with other applications, especially since those who manage integrations often need technical knowledge about web services and single sign-on processes, which can be challenging for non-technical users."
"If I could change one thing about Splunk Security Essentials, it would be pricing. I believe they are still very costly as compared to the competition."
"The biggest friction points I have with Splunk Security Essentials are the high license costs and user behavior that causes performance issues due to inappropriate wildcard searches."
"They could add more AI content or AI and machine learning."
"The reporting feature needs to be more user-friendly."
"The price could be improved."
"It takes a lot of time to install Splunk Security Essentials. It's not very difficult, but it requires time."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Performing Arts
28%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Transportation Company
7%
Wholesaler/Distributor
6%
Construction Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Healthcare Company
8%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rootly?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, we got a license for one year. Generally, it is great and the price is great, and that is the reason we chose Rootly. The only thing...
What needs improvement with Rootly?
Regarding improvements for Rootly, first of all, it would be great to make comfortable maintenance mode, as it does not let me silence alerting comfortably. This is one of a very small list of poin...
What is your primary use case for Rootly?
Rootly is our central system for on-call and alert management. We route alerts from Alertmanager to Rootly, and after that, we route alerts from Rootly to different teams that are in charge of the ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Security Essentials?
Our SecOps manager and CISO were more familiar with Splunk, and the price was right. That was probably the primary driver, and we did evaluation as well with strict criteria and Gartner ratings.
What needs improvement with Splunk Security Essentials?
There are features I wish Splunk Security Essentials had that it does not have today, in terms of the data sources that can increase. A simple example is images. If we can add something like images...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Security Essentials?
My main use case for Splunk Security Essentials is that we have been working in an environment where we have to collect all the security logs from all the devices, perform the correlation, and fina...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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