We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Pingdom and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"The log aggregation is great."
"Deployment server for deploying changes in one go."
"I have also been able to take advantage of some of the more complex statistical capabilities when analyzing logs."
"The solution is the market leader."
"I really like the user interface and how it works."
"The ability to view all of these different logs, then drilling down into specific times or into specific data sources, has proved to be the greatest aspect in decreasing our troubleshooting overhead time."
"Compared to IBM QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security offers faster alert resolution."
"The indexing and data collection are valuable."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"It needs more thoroughly tested releases. Every new big version (6, 7, etc.) has had so many bugs that it makes me wary of customers upgrading right away."
"It does not give us permission to implement on-premise so we implement them on the cloud."
"The product must improve insider threat detection."
"Splunk is not very user-friendly. It has a complex architecture in comparison to other solutions on the market."
"Splunk has a steeper learning curve, making it feel less user-friendly."
"Spam has different plugins but by default, the logs are not organized, it shows that there are roll-ups that are out of the box. I saw many plugins that can help improve or extend Splunk's functionality but I haven't tried any of them."
"Search head clustering is often temperamental in its current state and should be improved, replaced by something better, or be reverted to search head pooling."
"The solution could improve by giving more email details."
SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". 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 Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security.
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