We performed a comparison between Splunk Enterprise Security and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards are a key asset."
"The solution's newly developed dashboard is pretty amazing."
"Splunk has give us the capability to easily track problems and their status."
"Alerts when a server is malfunctioning, monitors external attacks, and takes action to stop spreading viruses."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to transact in the cloud and its ability to onboard data easily with minimum connectors."
"One of the most valuable features is threat hunting. We can do threat hunting and identify if there is any malicious activity happening within our environment, which is a key feature for us."
"We are much faster finding and addressing issues with Splunk."
"On the cloud, we are pushing through less than half a petabyte of data. So far, it has been fairly stable because it runs on all the underlying AWS infrastructures."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"I would like to see more SIEM functionality and a better ticket tool."
"Configuring a few apps is complex, not straightforward."
"The Enterprise Security app could be improved. We have had trouble with it working from the first day."
"I would like to get visibility into the data pipelines on heavy forwarders and indexers to see exactly their source and the cause of saturation when it occurs. This would help us learn even more about our high use applications."
"The pricing can be better."
"The administration of the cluster and app deployment to indexers or search heads can be done only using ssh access and command line, there is no GUI tools for that."
"There is a learning curve in order to start using machine learning. We have been trying to do it for three years, and we have not managed anything. It is too complex."
"An area of improvement would be the licensing of the solution. They need a free license, which would allow faster lead times."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 245 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Prometheus. See our Splunk Enterprise Security vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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