We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerts."
"Their support team is efficient, and it is easy to set up."
"The solution has made us more secure."
"The most useful feature for me is the ability to create different kinds of alerts and set a different kind of denominator that will capture the real event. That is helpful for a power user like me."
"This is a straightforward solution, easy to configure."
"Capability to expand the functionality through custom code for data inputs, commands, visualization, alerts, and machine learning."
"Splunk has significantly helped with aggregation and correlation of critical logs. Not having to grep on each individual server has made everyone more efficient."
"Its integration is most valuable. Its UI is also pretty much easy."
"We can easily configure things as required in relation to our use cases."
"It is very easy to use and integrate. There are connectors for every technology."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"The root cause analysis and installation faults are not clear."
"A feature I would ask for is for them to have this solution available for Linux systems instead of Windows."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"In terms of scalability, there is room for improvement. When you start monitoring, if you have so many interfaces and you're trying to monitor them at a faster interval, or a shorter interval, you get to a point where you need to request another node."
"Time: A worldwide deployment can be confusing for dispersed users with non-local times. Each node should have a local time (with summer offset if appropriate) & each user should view & report in their local time."
"The documentation is in definite need of improvement."
"Some of the terminology can be confusing, even for seasoned vets. Renaming components at this point would be a serious undertaking. However, it might be beneficial in the long run."
"The solution could improve by making it more business analysis oriented. The way it is now is designed more for developers."
"Splunk is not very user-friendly. It has a complex architecture in comparison to other solutions on the market."
"The UI can be improved. Dashboards and reports can be better in terms of graphics."
"Our two main complaints are about the difficulty of the initial setup and the licensing model."
"Splunk Enterprise Security could improve in automation, flexibility, and providing more content out of the box."
"Search head clustering is often temperamental in its current state and should be improved, replaced by something better, or be reverted to search head pooling."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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