We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."
"It is simple to implement and can provide fairly decent Windows-based monitoring, beyond simple SNMP. It is great for monitoring newbies and smaller shops."
"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"The solution is end-to-end from the network and the application to the processes. Everything about the enterprise infrastructure is being covered by the solution. It's easy to use and easy to navigate and one of the leaders among monitoring solutions."
"SolarWinds is a very stable platform compared to others on the market."
"My favorite example of improving of organization is saving a $60k/mo in payroll fraud and $10k/mo in wasted API credits by using simple searches and clear reports."
"Splunk UBA is useful for fraud detection and for detection of APTs, advanced persistent threats."
"The client site login is pretty extensible and probably cost-effective."
"The speed of the search engine"
"It is a one stop shop as a full monitoring and alerting solution for operations and application analysis for most of our back-end systems."
"The flexibility of the solution is quite good."
"Splunk would be my choice for the presentation layer because it comes with inbuilt reports and a dashboard that you can customize."
"It allows for transparency into IT metrics for insightful business analytics."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."
"The analytics of Splunk could be improved."
"Make it easy to use and the cost cheaper. This will help all organisations to implement Splunk."
"The use cases provided by Splunk are a good starting point, but could cover many additional topics to ensure that a smaller or less experienced shop might maximize the value of an ES deployment."
"Splunk's ability to analyze malicious activities scores an 8 out of 10, but there's room for improvement. By analyzing emerging patterns, Splunk could identify and predict potential threats more effectively."
"The level of scalability depends on the license you have. You can expand or reduce it based on the environment. It does cost more money to scale, however."
"The difficult part is related to integration with sources of data that are used to create the logs as this depends on the infrastructure of the client."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
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SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". 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 Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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