We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server and Splunk Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is its performance and management. Additionally, the solution integrates well."
"Simplicity is the most valuable feature."
"The best thing about Kiwi Syslog is that it filters logs into different levels."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerting based on the security logs."
"We are very happy with the stability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud is the quick setup."
"Splunk Cloud's most valuable features are log aggregations, dashboarding, business management, reporting, and business controls. Additionally, it has awesome indexing and the solution is always improving"
"Its monitoring is completely automated."
"Everything is maintained by the Splunk support team. Users do not have to maintain any physical servers. They do not have to maintain indexes and searches. It reduces a lot of work on the user side."
"I like the fact that we do not have to maintain all the cloud infrastructure. That is probably the main thing about the Splunk Cloud Platform."
"Dashboards and alerting are the most valuable features. The dashboards let us see how the system looks in terms of anomalies, and the alerts trigger us to go and look at what possible problems are happening."
"The Splunk search is powerful compared to similar solutions. We get millions of data points within seconds."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's most valuable features are enterprise security and ticketing integration."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly and customizable dashboard."
"SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server could improve by reducing the price."
"Technical support could definitely be better."
"I would like to have email notifications for emergency logs."
"I would like to see better search functions and better filters in the next release."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform dashboard could benefit from some improvements."
"From an enterprise standpoint, we are more limited in terms of what data we can export and how we can present it."
"The pricing model makes the product costly."
"It needs to mature; it's just getting established in the industry on a wider scale."
"Splunk currently manages the components, which restricts our ability to access them directly."
"Splunk Cloud Platform should improve its integrations and consider multiple integrations or direct integration with other platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS."
"The security connection should have a seamless integration. Other than that, the way we are using it, so far, it seems quite good."
"Although there is documentation available, it is really hard for me to find relevant topics on what it is that I'm searching for."
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SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is ranked 30th in Log Management with 5 reviews while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 34 reviews. SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is rated 7.8, while Splunk Cloud Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server writes "Shows login failures and server issues but search functions and filters could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is most compared with syslog-ng, SolarWinds Log Analyzer, Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Graylog, whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Check Point Security Management, AppInsights and Panther. See our SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server vs. Splunk Cloud Platform report.
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