We performed a comparison between Spiceworks and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"It shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know up front."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"It's easy to understand."
"It is very scalable."
"You can check up on security from the dashboards."
"Splunk is stable, and this is why many customers want it."
"In the past we used the different application to collect logs. We used SurfWatch and VMware to do so. But, we found that the Splunk has more capacity to do more in less time. They provide a aster speed to index all the events , and this is a huge asset."
"The product is adept at log mining."
"We have found all the features useful. However, the dashboarding and logging have been very helpful. Additionally, the log analysis does a great job."
"The visibility is amazing with easy dashboard creation."
"The most valuable features of Splunk Enterprise Security are its high-performance data collection, flexible query language, and its versatility across the organization."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"With Spiceworks, like, when I open the websites, I have to Zoom in. I need to zoom in on those websites sometimes because it makes it horrible to use."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
"One of the biggest ways in which Spiceworks could improve is by developing better and more automated workflows. For example, in another solution called ServiceDesk by ManageEngine, you can have levels of approval in the event that there is a request for new software, or when someone requests a VPN or WiFi connection. This kind of multi-stage approval feature provided by ServiceDesk does not appear to exist in Spiceworks, and it is one of their main shortcomings for me."
"The GUI must be improved."
"Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it."
"I would like to see more information when drilling down into access permissions, assignments management, or tagging. When I click a note or a device, I should be able to see more details about the router and modem. For example, I want to see the version, downtime, availability, latency, etc. I should have easy access to everything about our assets at a glance."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"Splunk is query-based, which is not the case with most cybersecurity tools. It is based on search queries and can be difficult to use. It would be good if they can make it easier to understand how to create search queries. They can improve the knowledge base for better understanding. To create your dashboard, you need to have a search query. We have multiple firewalls in our company, and we need a dashboard for them. It would be helpful if a default firewall dashboard is included in Splunk to make monitoring easier. If a dashboard is available for a security device, the operation part will be more efficient. We won't have to follow a manual process for this."
"Missing capability for audio/video and image processing."
"Splunk is more expensive than other solutions."
"The ingestion happens quickly, so you can run up the data costs if you use the default settings. It isn't a problem for government agencies in the Saudi market, but many of the corporations in India are small or medium-sized enterprises that cannot afford that kind of ingestion system."
"The search could be improved. Now, it is a bit difficult to write search queries because they become quite long, then maintaining those long search queries is a quite challenging."
"The analytics of Splunk could be improved."
"While scheduled reports can be embedded, Splunk dashboard can not be embedded directly without enabling cross origin."
"It currently has limited default rules and customizations. If they can concentrate more on the compliance part and the security information part, it would be helpful. The platform part is good, but it requires many features from the security aspect."
Spiceworks is ranked 32nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Spiceworks is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". 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 ". Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security.
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