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Splunk Enterprise Security vs Splunk Observability Cloud 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
7.2
Splunk Enterprise Security boosts efficiency, improves visibility, and increases profitability, offering flexibility, automation, and significant ROI in operations.
Sentiment score
7.8
Splunk Observability Cloud boosts ROI with enhanced visibility, reducing downtime and enabling faster issue resolution and improved collaboration.
I have noticed a return on investment with Splunk Enterprise Security, as it delivers substantial value for money.
Splunk's cost is justified for large environments with extensive assets.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
Splunk Enterprise Security support is generally positive, but faster resolutions often require premium options due to occasional delays.
Sentiment score
7.4
Splunk Observability Cloud receives high support ratings, though some users rely on in-house expertise and community resources.
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.
I have sought assistance from Splunk Enterprise Security support in the past, particularly during deployment, and they provide friendly and effective help.
The technical support for Splunk met my expectations.
They often require multiple questions, with five or six emails to get a response.
They did respond to us, but they did not explicitly inform us about the feature's absence.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Splunk Enterprise Security excels in scalability with smooth integration but may incur cost issues due to volume-based pricing.
Sentiment score
7.8
Splunk Observability Cloud is praised for scalability, despite some cost concerns and challenges with large data sets.
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.
I find it easy to scale Splunk Enterprise Security for our environment.
We've used the solution across more than 250 people, including engineers.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Splunk Enterprise Security is reliable, robust, and adaptable, effectively managing large data volumes with minimal downtime and ease.
Sentiment score
8.3
Splunk Observability Cloud is highly stable, with users praising its reliability, minimal bugs, and quick resolution of minor issues.
It provides a stable environment but needs to integrate with ITSM platforms to achieve better visibility.
It is very stable.
I would rate its stability a nine out of ten.
We rarely have problems accessing the dashboard or the page.
 

Room For Improvement

Splunk Enterprise Security needs user-friendliness, pricing adjustments, and improved integration to enhance functionality and user experience.
Splunk Observability Cloud needs better integration, pricing, scalability, customization, and support to improve user experience and expandability.
Improving the infrastructure behind Splunk Enterprise Security is vital—enhanced cores, CPUs, and memory should be prioritized to support better processing power.
What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel.
Splunk Enterprise Security would benefit from a more robust rule engine to reduce false positives.
There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available.
Customers sometimes need to create specific dashboards, particularly for applicative metrics such as Java and process terms.
 

Setup Cost

Splunk Enterprise Security's pricing is complex and costly but justified by its advanced analytics and comprehensive features.
Splunk Observability Cloud is costly but valued, with variable pricing and potential for discounts or negotiations to reduce expenses.
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.
It appears to be expensive compared to competitors.
 

Valuable Features

Splunk Enterprise Security excels with robust log management, seamless integration, real-time insights, and advanced threat detection for comprehensive monitoring.
Splunk Observability Cloud integrates data, monitors performance, and enhances visibility with user-friendly dashboards and real-time threat detection.
This capability is useful for performance monitoring and issue identification.
They have approximately 50,000 predefined correlation rules.
The Splunk Enterprise Security's threat-hunting capabilities have been particularly useful in later releases.
For troubleshooting, we can detect problems in seconds, which is particularly helpful for digital teams.
Splunk APM provides a holistic view of the application.
 

Categories and Ranking

Splunk Enterprise Security
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
306
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
Splunk Observability Cloud
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (11th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (9th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th), Container Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Lifecycle Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Splunk Enterprise Security is designed for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and holds a mindshare of 9.5%, down 12.6% compared to last year.
Splunk Observability Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability, holds 1.1% mindshare, up 0.5% since last year.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Lakshmi Padaga - PeerSpot reviewer
Collaborates performance metrics with log data to pinpoint the exact cause of issues and offers error detection
Splunk APM is a robust tool with many capabilities. There are always areas for potential improvement to enhance its functionality and user experience. For Splunk APM, there could be simplified navigation, like streamlining the user interface to make navigation more intuitive for our users, especially those new to APM, which can enhance usability. We can provide more customization options for dashboards and visualizations to help users tailor the platform to their specific needs. There could be more integration capabilities with a wider range of third-party tools and platforms would also be beneficial. By focusing on these areas, Splunk APM can enhance its value proposition, improve user satisfaction, and better meet the evolving needs of organizations monitoring their application performance.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Retailer
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What do you like most about SignalFx?
The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.
What needs improvement with SignalFx?
There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available. We sometimes encountered issues in setting up alerts. The custom detector could be m...
What is your primary use case for SignalFx?
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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
 

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Sample Customers

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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