We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"The stability is fantastic."
"The most valuable feature is the way it monitors the environment, and how user-friendly the console is for the end-user. The interface is also very easy and it captures all the information very well."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"There are a lot of valuable features with SolarWinds NPM. We can receive a lot of detailed data from the monitoring that can use useful for investigations, especially when you are troubleshooting. It is very helpful. Overall it was a very good experience."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"SolarWinds NPM provides an overview of network monitoring, extending its capabilities to cover other aspects, such as virtual machines and servers. The platform has features like NetPath, which is particularly beneficial for end-users, offering insights into issues like latency, packet loss, and connectivity problems with routers, switches, or servers."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"We saw the granularity that we could get from Splunk far exceeded what we already had. We had the ability to have our security team really focus on the platform and stay within the platform, but they could correlate with a variety of other stakeholders, and our stakeholders were growing."
"We have a one stop dashboard for health of some of our services where you can click in and it takes you to other dashboards that have custom near real-time metrics that show the application's health."
"It helped us consolidate all our solutions into an easy tool to use for various employees."
"Speeds up root cause analysis and can help identify issues that your organization never realized were occurring."
"It's the completeness of the solution that we like the most."
"Deployment server for deploying changes in one go."
"The integration is seamless with many devices and operating systems."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Enterprise Security is website activity monitoring."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If they’re going for a “cover everything” approach, then they need to do so and enable a bit more of the "cover everything approach" within every one of the tools."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NPM is the short retention period. Currently, it's just for seven days of data, which is very low, making it hard for my organization to keep that data. SolarWinds recommended a seven-day retention period, but my organization needs a fourteen-day data retention period. Hence, I'd like an increase in the retention period or the database limit in SolarWinds NPM because you can't go back to the data for any investigation if seven days have passed. Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NPM is the database, which needs to be a bit more mature. I want a modified database in the next release of SolarWinds NPM. I'd also like more options added to groups because, currently, it's very limited."
"Real-time analytics is the major weakness of the SolarWinds NPM platform today. They've done a fantastic job enabling the collection of data. Users are now demanding the ability to generate their own graphs, views, and so on; all of this must be done by an admin today."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"Professional support is great, but too expensive."
"The threat detection system has room for improvement."
"The solution could improve by making it more business analysis oriented. The way it is now is designed more for developers."
"We do have to educate developers on how to not blow it up. It is a little to easy to write an expensive query and overly stress the system. This could be improved."
"Splunk could have more built-in use case presets that customers can build on and customize."
"Better directions on search head clusters."
"The price has room for improvement."
". Having a trial version or more training on Splunk would be helpful."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 227 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". 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 ". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security.
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