Splunk Enterprise Security vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Splunk Enterprise Security
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
295
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
vRealize Network Insight
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (24th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (24th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 10.1%, down from 12.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.0%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Unique Categories:
Log Management
8.1%
IT Operations Analytics
30.3%
Network Monitoring Software
0.7%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
0.5%
 

Featured Reviews

SG
Jul 12, 2024
Brings all of the components necessary to identify, analyze, and respond together
The most valuable feature is that it brings all of the components necessary to identify, analyze, and respond together. It's pretty important that Splunk provides end-to-end visibility into your environment. As in any product that one purchases to fulfill a function, we want to recognize where it came in, who it affected, and what the challenges are that need to be met in order to resolve something, both immediately and also to make sure that it doesn't replicate in the future. Splunk does a good job of being able to do the former half. Dealing with issues requires tier-three support and above and it takes time. You can work through it with the help of your vendor team. I would rate them an eight out of ten. It's not so much the problem of the application itself, although there are always improvements that can be done. There are a lot of moving parts that need to be added in and if you don't have the information that you need, especially within identity and inventory, then that can be an added challenge when you have to start making imprints based on what you do know. Splunk Enterprise Security provides us with the relevant context to help guide our investigations. There are a number of different standards that can be presented, which is beneficial. Some customers like to have the information that they receive in one format. The driving factor is that when you work with federal customers, some of them want it in one format. The response will be in one format as opposed to another. Splunk has helped to improve my company's business resilience. It's an active component in ensuring that we are vigilant against intrusion and detecting it.
Claudio Sousa - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 28, 2022
Produces detailed reports of the network flow and layout using SDN
vRealize is used to help our development team by producing detailed reports of the network flow and layout. This includes details like the TCP network keys and the RTT It has helped improve our organization by directing the network traffic using SDN. The most valuable feature is the application…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Splunk Enterprise Security helped improve our organization’s ability to ingest and normalize data."
"It follows MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain frameworks. There are certain notable events for which we can configure our security posture."
"Ease of correlation, creating correlation searches are easy and you can combine multiple sources with little effort"
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It has been really good at consolidating a lot of data from different sources. It's really good at generating summaries."
"I like the search feature and the indexing. It's very fast and comprehensive."
"My favorite example of improving of organization is saving a $60k/mo in payroll fraud and $10k/mo in wasted API credits by using simple searches and clear reports."
"We have found all the features useful. However, the dashboarding and logging have been very helpful. Additionally, the log analysis does a great job."
"It is user-friendly. It's pretty simple to deploy and to run. It gives you pretty easy-to-understand reports, very graphically intense, so you can visualize what's going on in your network."
"With this product, we can precisely identify communication patterns between virtual machines within our data center, whether it's east-east or east-west communication."
"I find it user-friendly and intuitive. With the GUI interface that we do use on a regular basis, it's easy to navigate, it's easy to see, easy to query. We get reports. It's easy to use."
"The solution helps reduce time to value, increase performance, provide deep visibility, and easily manage networks."
"It's very user-friendly in the sense that the querying is just regular language like you and I speak or write. You don't need to know any SQL-query type of language to be able to get what you want out of it."
"The most valuable feature for me is the different views that you can get when selecting an application or a VLAN. It shows you the traffic flows. It gives you a visual representation of something that, in text, just may not make as much sense."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The best feature of this application is its ability to capture everything within the same application, as well as capture all the traffic."
 

Cons

"It would be nice if they had a wizard to construct searches, including more complex searches that include math or statistics."
"The product must improve insider threat detection."
"There are limitations with Splunk not detecting all user activity, especially on mainframes and network devices."
"The threat management part is still lagging. There are some gaps in threat management. Other vendors have built-in threat management systems, but Splunk lacks the threat management component in its portal. The UEBA and everything else is perfect, but it lacks a unified threat intelligence and management part."
"The configuration could be better."
"The documentation is in definite need of improvement."
"Its setup is a little bit complex for a distributed environment. Their support can also be better. If we miss the response for more than a week, they usually close the case. Sometimes, it can take us more than a week to reply."
"It needs integration with a configuration management solution."
"It just needs to be more reliable and more accurate. At some point, there are some things where it does not match properly."
"Support could be much better."
"After you use it for a little while you become accustomed to it but the layout doesn't feel very intuitive. You have to dig around and find the exact place where you can find the information, where you can actually see your east-west traffic, etc. I would like them to bring that information more to the forefront, instead of having to find it."
"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."
"It needs to be a little easier to use and to understand the information it's putting out. That would make it more helpful. If you're not a network person you need to understand things like network policies and concepts. If you gave it to a regular admin, it would be nice if it were easier for them to pick up what is going on, understand the flows and whether or not stuff should be talking to each other, as opposed to just port groups and IP addresses."
"I would like to see application identification. That would be cool."
"The only real improvement they can make is to add more third-party vendors into the environment, mostly switch manufacturers, because it's really limited to Cisco equipment and there are a lot of companies out there other than Cisco."
"I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Splunk should be able to integrate with other product using the free version."
"The licensing model can be expensive, but the value it provides is significant."
"It is expensive, but it is a good tool. It is worth the cost."
"Pricing is probably its weakest spot. As compared to some competitors, Splunk is really expensive."
"The pricing is a little bit on the higher side, but looking at what Splunk provides us, it is reasonable."
"You will eat up whatever you purchase quickly. The level of insights that Splunk empowers is addictive."
"While Splunk is more expensive than other solutions, we would still choose it because of its capabilities."
"I have no opinion on pricing."
"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."
"It reduces costs. It takes something that may be challenging and makes it more usable and visual by being able to bring in tools, seeing what their impact is, such as microsegmentation and application rationalization, and seeing it quickly."
"Cost always has room for improvement, you could always make it cheaper. But I think it's a good value for what you pay for it."
"It has brought more money into our company."
"I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten."
"The solution has helped us to reduce time, increase performance, reduce costs, and even easily manage networks. We are probably seeing 10 to 20 percent labor savings because we are able to be very specific and focused on what we want to do. It ends up saving the customer money and makes us be more efficient on our cost deliveries."
"It's a little expensive, but for what you're getting out of the product, you often see the trade-off. It depends on the type of licensing you have. It might be a little too pricey for some."
"We have spent less time investigating network flows, so it is absolutely cost-effective."
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Comparison Review

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Feb 26, 2015
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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 vRealize Network Insight?
The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vRealize Network Insight?
I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten.
What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?
The IT infrastructure industry is expected to evolve towards a hybrid cloud model in the next five to ten years. In this model, most of the customer's resources reside on-premise within a private c...
 

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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.
NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet
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