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Splunk Cloud Platform vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.0
Users find Splunk Cloud beneficial for cost savings, quick issue resolution, improved visibility, and notable ROI, despite some drawbacks.
Sentiment score
7.2
Splunk Enterprise Security enhances ROI through improved troubleshooting, integration, automation, and security, leading to efficiency and user satisfaction.
Splunk Cloud Platform has impacted operational costs; it's a bit expensive, but it provides value for money.
I have noticed a return on investment with Splunk Enterprise Security, as it delivers substantial value for money.
Customers see the value in investing in this solution, particularly when it helps resolve issues quickly, turning a potential 20-hour response into one hour.
We are able to secure the environment from all security threats and maintain an environment that is free from threats and attacks, especially cyberattacks.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.7
Splunk Cloud Platform's support is inconsistent, with premium users satisfied but others experiencing delays and varying response quality.
Sentiment score
6.7
Splunk Enterprise Security support praised for knowledge and speed, but response times and complexity vary, premium options recommended.
Premium support is costly and may not always provide a satisfactory experience.
If you want to write your own correlation rules, it is very difficult to do, and you need Splunk's support to write new correlation rules for the SIEM tool.
They try to close issues as soon as possible, often just offering documentation links.
They are responsive and effectively resolve issues.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Splunk Cloud Platform impresses with scalability but faces cost concerns, praised for adaptability and easy resource expansion.
Sentiment score
7.7
Splunk Enterprise Security efficiently scales across environments, supporting large data volumes despite cost concerns, offering robust architecture.
They struggle a bit with pure virtual environments, but in terms of how much they can handle, it is pretty good.
It is easy to scale.
It's big in a Central European context, and small from a Splunk North American context.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Splunk Cloud Platform is praised for 99.9% availability, minimal issues, and quick resolution, ensuring high user-rated stability.
Sentiment score
7.9
Splunk Enterprise Security is praised for stability and reliability, with minor bugs manageable under efficient configuration and resource management.
They test it very thoroughly before release, and our customers have Splunk running for months without issues.
It provides a stable environment but needs to integrate with ITSM platforms to achieve better visibility.
It is very stable.
 

Room For Improvement

Splunk Cloud users face high costs, limited training, integration challenges, insufficient documentation, performance issues, and complex setup.
Splunk Enterprise Security needs improvements in rule engine, integration, cost-effectiveness, dashboard complexity, performance, customization, interface, and user training.
Splunk Cloud Platform needs improvement in its security offerings, specifically in cybersecurity.
Integration is a bit difficult due to the coding required for the integrations.
Improving the infrastructure behind Splunk Enterprise Security is vital—enhanced cores, CPUs, and memory should be prioritized to support better processing power.
Splunk Enterprise Security is not something that automatically picks things; you have to set up use cases, update data models, and link the right use cases to the right data models for those detections to happen.
For any future enhancements or features, such as MLTK and SOAR platform integration, we need more visibility, training, and certification for the skilled professionals who are working.
 

Setup Cost

Splunk Cloud Platform's high cost and complex licensing challenge small organizations and complicate budgeting due to unbundled features.
Splunk Enterprise Security's high costs deter smaller enterprises, yet its features often justify the expense for larger organizations.
Splunk Cloud is considered too expensive, with its two product offerings both being costly.
If I were to rate the price for the product from 1 to 10, I would rate it nine.
I saw clients spend two million dollars a year just feeding data into the Splunk solution.
The platform requires significant financial investment and resources, making it expensive despite its comprehensive features.
Splunk is priced higher than other solutions.
 

Valuable Features

Splunk Cloud Platform offers advanced search, dashboards, real-time analysis, AI insights, multi-cloud monitoring, and reduces maintenance workload.
Splunk Enterprise Security offers fast data search, scalable log management, real-time alerts, and seamless third-party integration, enhancing threat detection.
The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its robustness and ability to ingest logs.
The real-time search capability of this product enhances operational decision-making.
This capability is useful for performance monitoring and issue identification.
I assess Splunk Enterprise Security's insider threat detection capabilities for helping to find unknown threats and anomalous user behavior as great.
Splunk Enterprise Security provides the foundation for unified threat detection, investigation, and response, enabling fast identification of critical issues.
 

Categories and Ranking

Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (2nd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (3rd)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
313
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Splunk Cloud Platform is designed for Data Visualization and holds a mindshare of 0.9%, up 0.4% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 9.5% mindshare, down 12.4% since last year.
Data Visualization
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

Ian Gatundu - PeerSpot reviewer
It improves our visibility and decision-making while helping us meet compliance standards
The Cloud Platform interface is cleaner than Splunk Enterprise's monitoring console. You can easily understand what's happening with your indexes. It's more refined than Splunk Enterprise's console, but they have the same feel and function. It's easy to monitor multiple cloud environments because you can create custom dashboards for any use case you may have. It offers good visibility because it integrates with the ITSI app, providing a clear overview of your environment. Integrating Splunk with other components on the cloud and network resources is effortless because it can collect data from various sources, including stored data from long-term storage. Splunk's reporting offers a good visualization of your data. You can visualize the statistics based on your searches. It produces some helpful graphs that enable you to easily compare what's happening in your search. It's very comprehensive.
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log analysis
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has also a query language in which they search their log files, but once you have identified the log file that you want to use for further security correlation, you want to very quickly transport that into your SIEM tool, such as Microsoft Sentinel. That is something that Splunk could make a little bit less painful because it is a lot of effort to find that log file and forward it. An API with Microsoft Sentinel or a similar SIEM tool would be a good idea.
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Comparison Review

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
30%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
5%
University
5%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
If I were to rate the price for the product from 1 to 10, I would rate it nine.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
The disadvantage of Splunk Cloud Platform is that its integration process should be improved. The challenges I have encountered while integrating Splunk Cloud Platform include that integration is a...
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
 

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Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
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