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SolarWinds Incident Response vs Splunk Security Essentials comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2026

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

SolarWinds Incident Response
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Security Essentials
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
14th
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 August 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of SolarWinds Incident Response is 1.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Security Essentials is 1.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SolarWinds Incident Response1.1%
Splunk Security Essentials1.8%
Other97.1%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

HemantKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Proactive alert routing has improved uptime and now reduces incident impact across teams
Squadcast requires improvement in that whenever team members upload notes, there is a restriction preventing them from manually resolving alerts. Alerts can only be resolved via proper signals from Alertmanager. Users should not be able to resolve incidents without manual intervention. This is a major requirement because team members sometimes resolve alerts manually, risking the resolution of critical alerts. Additionally, with multiple production environments and services, we receive multiple alerts for issues such as the same disk alert several times. To reduce this noise, we utilize suppression and need deduplication rules. Having a feature to set deduplication rules in one service applicable to other services would be a great help. Other improvements needed for Squadcast include observations I have made over the last four years, and I will convey any updates regarding improvements in the future.
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

"When we receive alerts in a timely manner, we can proactively monitor our systems without downtime, maintaining system health with proper alerts, and within the time frame, we can take the necessary action to resolve those alerts, helping to delay major incidents and achieving uptime above 99.9% and 99.2%."
"Squadcast notifications have helped me resolve issues faster because they notify me as soon as an issue happens, and then I go and fix it before it gets escalated to further sections."
"Squadcast has positively impacted the organization with its notification feature that allows receiving a call in case an alert is missed from the UI, enabling timely action, which helps in resolving issues within the minimum time frame and prevents more production issues."
"Squadcast has positively impacted my organization by helping with incident management and enabling alerts to be responded to more quickly."
"A significant return on investment has been seen because incidents can be tracked timely and actions can be taken that minimize downtime."
"Squadcast has positively impacted my organization by significantly limiting production incidents compared to before; after using Squadcast, we are much more aware of particular incidents happening with the production server."
"Squadcast helped us build a better product by improving both response time and reliability."
"Squadcast has positively impacted our organization because we are confident that we will not miss any alert or system outage, as Squadcast ensures the alert reaches the person even if the SRE person is not available."
"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."
"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."
"They have a good catalog of plans to use to resist the attacks."
"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."
"Splunk Security Essentials has impacted my organization in that we have been getting the results that we wanted."
 

Cons

"A few areas need improvement. For example, AI-generated incident summaries take a lot of time to be completed."
"Squadcast could be improved if the pricing could be reduced per user."
"In terms of improvements for Squadcast, there are opportunities, such as having only two workflows for tagging alerts based on priority P1, P2, with our current premium plan."
"Squadcast could enhance the UI to be more user-friendly."
"Squadcast user interface is poor, especially when you are on a smaller screen, as it makes the navigation experience very bad."
"One feature I think Squadcast must improve is the message quality and call quality we get; currently, the proper message is not being clearly heard on the calls we receive."
"I remember when we were working on the integration, the documentation was not great, and we found it difficult to understand what the document was saying in some parts."
"Squadcast could be improved because when multiple alerts trigger, the team currently performs manual resolution of those alerts."
"They could add more AI content or AI and machine learning."
"The reporting feature needs to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"It takes a lot of time to install Splunk Security Essentials. It's not very difficult, but it requires time."
"The price could be improved."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
25%
Construction Company
20%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
5%
Construction Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise8
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Squadcast?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very awesome because pricing is affordable. They charge a very affordable pricing compared to features. The setup cost was more attractive.
What needs improvement with Squadcast?
A few areas need improvement. For example, AI-generated incident summaries take a lot of time to be completed.
What is your primary use case for Squadcast?
My main use case for Squadcast is in two different ways. I use it for on-call management, whereby I'm able to schedule calls and do the escalations, as well as live call routing to agents. That is ...
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?
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. Additionally, ...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Security Essentials?
My main use case for Splunk Security Essentials is for Enterprise Security, specifically the ES app. Splunk Security Essentials is my primary tool for threat detection and monitoring because as a S...
 

Overview

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