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Splunk Enterprise Security vs Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
418
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.2
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 13.4%, down from 23.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics is 2.6%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security13.4%
Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics2.6%
Other84.0%
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Sathis-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Bank of America
Helps us detect cyber threats quickly and integrate multiple feeds effectively
Overall, the product is good, but when it comes to some infrastructure issues, we have to dig into more logs. There is no straightforward indication of an issue. Health check kind of dashboards are not available. More AI would help us, and more optimization, since security products run more queries. The AI module could suggest solutions, optimizing queries or workload balancing. If the product itself advises on running queries during peak times, it would be similar to what ChatGPT currently offers. We see quite a few issues on stability. Even last week, we faced something, and identifying bottlenecks is not easy. We need more SMEs, and there is no mechanism to tell us about indexer or search head issues. Self-monitoring dashboards could be beneficial. The technical support still requires more improvement. Often, primary support takes a lot of time and forwards most solutions to the engineering side. The primary support team has very limited knowledge to provide.
NM
Senior Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Integrating third-party tools for effective data management and reporting
There are challenges with the data collector options in Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics. When I upgrade, the data collector tends to stop working, requiring me to open a case with Veritas. It takes them a long time, usually over a month, to resolve the issue, which is a pain point. I believe improving this aspect would enhance the user experience.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The detailed log view is easy to read."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to transact in the cloud and its ability to onboard data easily with minimum connectors."
"The product is good, it satisfies our customers."
"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."
"The technical support team at Splunk is highly responsive and knowledgeable."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's risk-based alerting has been a game-changer for us, adding intelligence to alerts by considering behavioral or internal asset-based criteria, effectively helping us prioritize alerts and filtering out noise that can be ignored."
"When it comes to leveraging Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards and visualizations to communicate security posture to executives, it's pretty straightforward for any type of information."
"Splunk stands out for its extensive application integrations."
"The most valuable feature of the product is the insight it provides on the console."
"The valuable features include getting an overview of the backup status and gaining an understanding of my backup environment."
"The scalability is great. It is one of the best advantages that I find important."
"My experience with the technical support by Veritas is pretty good."
"Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics is technically much simpler than many backups, which provides a competitive advantage."
"It's helpful because I can have full visibility of my IT environment."
"The most valuable aspects of Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics are its reporting capabilities and the ability to integrate with third-party tools, such as an ITSM system, for automated checks on live backup statuses."
"The deduplication engine compared to Azure backups is a cost-efficient feature regarding storage."
 

Cons

"We see quite a few issues on stability. Even last week, we faced something, and identifying bottlenecks is not easy."
"The entire tool is a little slow. It can be improved, as the lagging is noticeable."
"Index performance is a bit slow but this is partly due to the huge volumes of data for our industry within our environment."
"The complexity could be worked on so that it's even easier and faster."
"The solution could improve by giving more email details."
"Delays in responses from the technical team can pose challenges for both vendors and clients, especially considering that Splunk applications and machine solutions are critical assets."
"The area of concern revolves around the fact that Splunk is an expensive product."
"Splunk Enterprise Security can be improved by addressing the content management interface, which is very outdated, slow, and clunky; sometimes we think things are saved and they haven't."
"During the last issue that occurred due to the counter-strike, we needed recovery instantly for a large number of machines, more than a thousand machines, and Cohesity was the best solution for us."
"The quality of technical support has decreased over time with slower response times compared to before."
"The documentation could be better; this should be improved."
"NetBackup is not great in disaster recovery (DR) and data center to DR setup, especially in the Cloud environment. Veritas Resiliency Platform is not very handy for cloud-to-cloud, cross-platform replication."
"The technical support from Veritas is disappointing as they take a long time, often over a month or two, to resolve issues."
"The process should be made easier. It is very complicated, and there is more with NetBackup; it is very difficult for me to oversee."
"The solution should allow users to export data to Tableau."
"The process should be made easier."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is pretty straightforward and based on the sizing. If I compare it with other competitors, it makes sense."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is a worthwhile investment given the comprehensive range of features it offers."
"Truly evaluate the data you want to ingest and go slow. Pulling in data that can provide no use to your mission only wastes data against your license."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is priced lower than competitors."
"It can be cost-prohibitive when you start to scale and have terabytes of data. Its cost model is based on how much data it processes a day. If they're able to create scaled-down niche or custom package offerings, it may help with the cost. Instead of the full-blown features, if they can narrow the scope where it can only be used for a specific purpose, it would kind of create that market for the product, and it may help with the costing. When you start using it as a central aggregator and you're pumping tons of logs at it, pretty soon, you'll start hitting your cap on what it can process a day. Once you've got that, you're kind of defeating the purpose because you're going to have to scale back."
"Splunk is expensive based on our current requirements, but it's obviously worth what we pay."
"While licensing can be a concern, there are ways to reduce the licensing costs including filtering some events."
"Further reductions would be fantastic, and I believe that more and more people would flock to it."
"The product has a fair price."
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Comparison Review

VS
Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 26, 2015
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business129
Midsize Enterprise65
Large Enterprise285
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics?
They have changed their licensing model and increased the pricing, which has caused some concern. Additionally, I have to pay for maintenance and support separately.
What needs improvement with Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics?
I would recommend that they implement instant mass recovery because in Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics, it takes a very long time. During the last issue that occurred due to the counter-strike, we n...
What is your primary use case for Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics?
We are using Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics on physical infrastructure. We are not using it for any virtual or cloud infrastructure because we have our internal cloud, so we are not going on any pu...
 

Overview

 

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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