We performed a comparison between Splunk APM and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Detectors are a powerful feature."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The ability to ingest different log types from many different products in our environment is most valuable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are it is straightforward to use and the documentation is good for finding out how to get the data you are looking for."
"It is easy to use in any environment."
"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."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is able to process a huge amount of data without any issues."
"Its integration is most valuable. Its UI is also pretty much easy."
"The initial setup is really straightforward. It's one of the easiest installations."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the dashboard. It's very intuitive."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"The product was designed for security and IT with business intelligence needs, such as PDF exporting, but this has not been the highest priority. While the functionality is there, it could be developed more."
"Splunk Enterprise Security could improve in automation, flexibility, and providing more content out of the box."
"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."
"Splunk can improve regex/asset analysis as we do not want to crawl until it is done."
"It can be tough to determine if you are getting all of the value out of your investment at times."
"Features related to content management must be improved."
"The support that is included with the standard licensing fee is very bad."
"We had some connections issues with the solution at the beginning."
Splunk APM is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. Splunk APM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". 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 ". Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Datadog, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our Splunk APM vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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