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Splunk Security Essentials vs Squadcast comparison

 

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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 Security Essentials
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
15th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
4.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (14th), Security Incident Response (10th)
Squadcast
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Splunk Security Essentials is 1.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Squadcast is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Squadcast0.7%
Splunk Security Essentials1.7%
Other97.6%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2836941 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Centralized monitoring has given our SOC real-time visibility into security and application activity
When I first implemented Splunk Security Essentials in this environment, it took a week for each log source to onboard and to create use cases and implement the data model, CIM, etc., for production readiness. Training is mandatory, and we need at least the Splunk Security Essentials User certification because it is a very critical resource in the organization, as we are handling security logs. In my organization, Splunk Security Essentials is used not only by the SOC but also for monitoring logs across different teams, as it is important for handling both security and application logs, given its capability to manage unstructured logs. Splunk Security Essentials has dramatically impacted my organization, as without it, we were blind to what is happening from both a security and application perspective, and it provides vital visibility into the organization's operations.
HemantKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Proactive alert routing has improved uptime and now reduces incident impact across teams
Squadcast requires improvement in that whenever team members upload notes, there is a restriction preventing them from manually resolving alerts. Alerts can only be resolved via proper signals from Alertmanager. Users should not be able to resolve incidents without manual intervention. This is a major requirement because team members sometimes resolve alerts manually, risking the resolution of critical alerts. Additionally, with multiple production environments and services, we receive multiple alerts for issues such as the same disk alert several times. To reduce this noise, we utilize suppression and need deduplication rules. Having a feature to set deduplication rules in one service applicable to other services would be a great help. Other improvements needed for Squadcast include observations I have made over the last four years, and I will convey any updates regarding improvements in the future.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Splunk Security Essentials has impacted my organization in that we have been getting the results that we wanted."
"We are focusing on security to ensure incidents are reported efficiently. In addition to that, for reporting purposes, we are utilizing our dashboards or creating new ones. We will be using free visualization tools for this purpose."
"The network monitoring feature is particularly valuable for gathering information about users, login times, and other statistics."
"They have a good catalog of plans to use to resist the attacks."
"Splunk Security Essentials has dramatically impacted my organization, as without it, we were blind to what is happening from both a security and application perspective, and it provides vital visibility into the organization's operations."
"I would have to rate Splunk Security Essentials a 10 out of 10 because it's free and there's tons of usable content."
"Squadcast notifications have helped me resolve issues faster because they notify me as soon as an issue happens, and then I go and fix it before it gets escalated to further sections."
"Squadcast has positively impacted the organization with its notification feature that allows receiving a call in case an alert is missed from the UI, enabling timely action, which helps in resolving issues within the minimum time frame and prevents more production issues."
"When we receive alerts in a timely manner, we can proactively monitor our systems without downtime, maintaining system health with proper alerts, and within the time frame, we can take the necessary action to resolve those alerts, helping to delay major incidents and achieving uptime above 99.9% and 99.2%."
"Squadcast has positively impacted our organization because we are timely getting alerts, and based on those alerts, we can take the required actions, so if there is any burning security alert, we can timely act to avoid production downtime, which results in a return on investment, and there are many transactional costs involved in it, so by reducing the downtime of the system, we are able to save revenue loss from the client side."
"A significant return on investment has been seen because incidents can be tracked timely and actions can be taken that minimize downtime."
"Squadcast has positively impacted our organization by providing timely acknowledgment of alerts, which improves our handling of production issues."
"Squadcast has positively impacted my organization by significantly limiting production incidents compared to before; after using Squadcast, we are much more aware of particular incidents happening with the production server."
"Squadcast has positively impacted my organization by helping with incident management and enabling alerts to be responded to more quickly."
 

Cons

"If I could change one thing about Splunk Security Essentials, it would be pricing. I believe they are still very costly as compared to the competition."
"It takes a lot of time to install Splunk Security Essentials. It's not very difficult, but it requires time."
"The price could be improved."
"The biggest friction points I have with Splunk Security Essentials are the high license costs and user behavior that causes performance issues due to inappropriate wildcard searches."
"They could add more AI content or AI and machine learning."
"The reporting feature needs to be more user-friendly."
"One feature I think Squadcast must improve is the message quality and call quality we get; currently, the proper message is not being clearly heard on the calls we receive."
"Squadcast requires improvement in that whenever team members upload notes, there is a restriction preventing them from manually resolving alerts."
"Squadcast could enhance the UI to be more user-friendly."
"Squadcast could be improved because when multiple alerts trigger, the team currently performs manual resolution of those alerts."
"Squadcast user interface is poor, especially when you are on a smaller screen, as it makes the navigation experience very bad."
"Sometimes, while updating the escalation policies tab, Squadcast takes a lot of time, which could be improved."
"I remember when we were working on the integration, the documentation was not great, and we found it difficult to understand what the document was saying in some parts."
"In terms of improvements for Squadcast, there are opportunities, such as having only two workflows for tagging alerts based on priority P1, P2, with our current premium plan."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Healthcare Company
8%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Security Essentials?
Our SecOps manager and CISO were more familiar with Splunk, and the price was right. That was probably the primary driver, and we did evaluation as well with strict criteria and Gartner ratings.
What needs improvement with Splunk Security Essentials?
There are features I wish Splunk Security Essentials had that it does not have today, in terms of the data sources that can increase. A simple example is images. If we can add something like images...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Security Essentials?
My main use case for Splunk Security Essentials is that we have been working in an environment where we have to collect all the security logs from all the devices, perform the correlation, and fina...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Squadcast?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that it is not that costly compared to other tools. It is very much affordable, with a license cost of around twelve dollars per user, so...
What needs improvement with Squadcast?
In terms of improvements for Squadcast, there are opportunities, such as having only two workflows for tagging alerts based on priority P1, P2, with our current premium plan. It would be beneficial...
What is your primary use case for Squadcast?
Our main use case for Squadcast is for alerting purposes, where we have set up alerting in our prod and non-prod environment, and we are getting alerts for infra and application-level alerts into S...
 

Overview

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