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Splunk SOAR vs Sumo Logic Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

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
6.6
Adoption of Splunk SOAR varied, with customization enhancing benefits; successful integration linked to experience, despite initial challenges.
Sentiment score
7.6
Sumo Logic Security improves troubleshooting and operational efficiency, with users finding ROI generally justifies its continued use.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
Splunk SOAR support is generally responsive, yet telecom and IoT cases may face delays; community offers quicker resolutions.
Sentiment score
7.4
Sumo Logic Security's support is responsive and helpful but can occasionally delay up to 48 hours; no phone support mentioned.
Splunk's technical support is very good and generally not needed often due to the stable environment.
They have a response time of forty-eight hours, which is not instant support.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
Splunk SOAR is highly scalable and flexible, though some users encounter minor challenges, mainly linked to internal management.
Sentiment score
8.1
Sumo Logic Security offers scalable, cloud-based solutions praised for integration, performance, and flexibility across diverse infrastructures, with positive user feedback.
It can be extended and adapted as necessary.
The tool has high scalability because everything is based in the cloud.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Splunk SOAR is stable, reliable, with minimal downtime and effective version control, despite occasional external vendor issues.
Sentiment score
8.1
Sumo Logic Security is highly praised for stability, reliability, and maintaining performance under load, with minimal latency issues.
Splunk SOAR provides a stable environment and technology.
If there are many records, the system may stop or the UI may become unresponsive.
 

Room For Improvement

Splunk SOAR users desire better integration, user interface, documentation, and features like automation, debugging, and reporting for improved operations.
Sumo Logic Security faces challenges in performance, automation, support, API integration, and high costs, needing improvements across multiple areas.
Although it enhances alert handling, it still has a journey to compete with Palo Alto SOAR and FortiSOAR.
To make Splunk SOAR a better solution, there could be better built-in debugging tools, smarter playbook suggestions, and enhanced lifecycle management.
The correlation rules and log mapping are not as mature compared to other SIM tools like Splunk.
This is crucial to sell to the government and financial sectors as they require data retention within each country.
 

Setup Cost

Splunk SOAR's pricing is consumption-based, often deemed expensive, with costs varying by data volume and region, impacting smaller organizations.
Sumo Logic Security users find AWS Marketplace simplifies billing and offers a competitive, cost-effective pricing structure despite scalability concerns.
Splunk SOAR is moderately priced, neither cheap nor overly expensive.
Splunk SOAR is affordable cost-wise only.
This makes it more cost-effective because other solutions often include a third element in their pricing.
 

Valuable Features

Splunk SOAR enhances threat response with automation, integration, customization, and user-friendly features, streamlining workflows and reducing manual tasks.
Sumo Logic Security offers robust threat intelligence, real-time observability, and seamless integrations, making it essential for SecOps teams.
Creating playbooks using the Playbook Editor in Splunk SOAR is easy. The editor is designed to be user-friendly with visual drag and drop features, allowing for easy workflows without writing any code.
The stable environment and the community provide strong support, reducing the need for technical support.
If we cannot find the data in other tools, like email security or NDR, we can fetch those logs in the Log Analytics platform of Sumo Logic.
Sumo Logic Security offers a single dashboard and customization, which are the most valuable features.
 

Categories and Ranking

Splunk SOAR
Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sumo Logic Security
Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
15th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (24th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (25th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of Splunk SOAR is 7.3%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sumo Logic Security is 1.1%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
 

Featured Reviews

Shubham Sinha. - PeerSpot reviewer
Helped eliminate repetitive and redundant tasks, but custom functions and reporting need a lot of work
The visibility of the solution’s playbook viewer depends on the right you assign to the analyst. SOAR has the flexibility to distinguish between the roles of analyst and owner. If the analyst's role is to just work on a ticket, they cannot view the playbook design platform. That is limited to the owner. That can be both a good and bad thing. A major problem I have faced in SOAR's rights distribution is roles and responsibilities. Suppose I am initially granted user rights or analyst rights, but later on, I also get admin rights. SOAR is unable to amend the limitations of my role. I raised a support ticket with Splunk about this. They said it's a bug in their 5.3.5 version. To fix this, I had to reinstall the entire platform from scratch, just to amend the rights and responsibilities of one role. This bug was not fixed. Also, the latest GUI is terrible. The previous one was better. Another point is that while using Splunk SOAR in an investigation is not difficult, there are some complex parameters. We have SOAR case management, but the licensing is going to put a big hole in your pocket. Also, there is an issue with investigation node addition. When you are doing node additions you cannot grant the entire environment to have SOAR visibility into the incident. So when you integrate it with an ITSM tool, like ServiceNow or Jira for ticketing purposes, there is a challenge. When you do nodes for investigation on a regular basis, sometimes it does not update our ServiceNow platform, which is terrible. It is a redundant activity for an analyst to update that in the case management as well as in the ITSM tool. Although SOAR provides integration, the functionality of investigation and nodes is terrible when it comes to integration. An additional area for improvement is custom function creation. It's terrible. A newbie cannot create custom functions right away. They would require a solid understanding first. Also, the reporting is really awful. If I want to do a report for a customized time period, such as the last three days or the last four days, or from the 10th to the 12th of June, that is not available in SOAR at all. That kind of feature is available in Cortex XSOAR. Reporting is a real challenge.
WilsonAitan - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers a single dashboard with customizable features and a cost-effective pricing structure
Sumo Logic Security offers a single dashboard and customization, which are the most valuable features. Additionally, it has a cost-effective structure because it is based on data storage and the number of scans, rather than uploading data. This cost model impacts the customers positively by offering a more straightforward pricing structure.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Splunk Phantom?
Splunk SOAR's quick response to incidents is the most valuable part.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Phantom?
Splunk SOAR is affordable cost-wise only, but not competitive from a technical perspective compared to Palo Alto SOAR and FortiSOAR.
What needs improvement with Splunk Phantom?
The creation of playbooks is complex in Splunk SOAR ( /categories/security-orchestration-automation-and-response-soar ), and the number of integrations needs enhancement. Although it enhances alert...
What do you like most about Sumo Logic Security?
Sumo Logic Security is a good solution for searching the logs and identifying the issues.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sumo Logic Security?
The pricing structure for Sumo Logic Security is based on two elements: data storage and the number of scans. This makes it more cost-effective because other solutions often include a third element...
What needs improvement with Sumo Logic Security?
In terms of improvement, feedback indicates there is a need for a local data center in my country. This is crucial to sell to the government and financial sectors as they require data retention wit...
 

Also Known As

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Sample Customers

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