We performed a comparison between PRTG Network Monitor 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."
"I really love the activity library. It gives the flexibility to discover data and metrics about my interface and data server."
"It improves the status of my infrastructure, from networking devices to real-time machines."
"We have asked questions of their technical support and they have a very good response time."
"It helps the entire organization become digitally enabled."
"The most valuable feature is the notifications. As long as you spend time and think about what and when you want to be notified, it's always accurate. It is always there. I find things out before my Internet provider."
"Ease of set-up – it is quick and easy to add a probe and start collecting data from a device."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"It is easy when it comes to dependencies of devices, so if your router goes down, the three or four switches behind it will automatically be paused so that you don't get multiple alerts."
"Splunk Enterprise Security offers two valuable features: the Common Information Model and arrangement modules."
"It is the best tool if you have a complex environment or if data ingestion is too huge."
"To get visibility from your network devices, servers, and security devices is a great feature."
"Splunk setup is easy and straightforward. "
"Support is quick and competent."
"The ability to rapidly diagnose problems in production and non-production, across hundreds of log files, is the most valuable feature."
"It provides logs in one place, so they are easy to find. It collects the logs from multiple places, then you have just one place where you see the whole flow from the front-end to the back-end."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I have an issue with DFS, distributed file services... there isn't one by default. Taking into account the difference between DFS and DFSR as well would be great."
"A room for improvement in PRTG Network Monitor is its sensors. Its application technology sensor, such as the IAS, .NET, etc., needs some improvement because it doesn't work as expected. For example, the IAS sensor doesn't give immediate information, and the information you get from it isn't of good value. The web GUI of PRTG Network Monitor also needs improvement because errors keep popping up if it's not been updated to the latest version. What I'd like to see in the next release of the tool is end-to-end topology mapping for the business model, and that should be required. There has to be a technical map. Technical mapping and topological creation are missing in PRTG Network Monitor, so I would like to see those in the future."
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve by having a feature to allow uploading of preset standard network switch configurations and the ability to monitor the SLA configuration, such as uptime for the switches or internet connectivity. This would be very useful."
"The remote probes seem to be a little bit buggy at times. They just stop working or they say they can't communicate. What we tend to do to is install the remote app onto the servers that we use. That seems to clear it up."
"While the desktop app is good, they could slightly improve it. We would like it to be a single pane of glass. At the moment, you can only see certain portions of information. You have to scroll through to make it more granular. We want them to develop the desktop app to be more user-friendly."
"The icons on PRTG's network diagram are hard to find. For example, finding the icons for firewalls and servers is difficult, so we're struggling to create the network topology."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve by having better integration with devices."
"Once you start going above 5000 sensors, things do start to get a bit shaky. There are some best practice out there that you will need to adopt and be aware of."
"The CIM model is the method Splunk uses to normalize data and categorize its important parts, but it is quite complex."
"Make it easy to use and the cost cheaper. This will help all organisations to implement Splunk."
"The presence of multiple layers creates a significant challenge for monitoring across cloud environments."
"Sometimes the communication with support happens with multiple staff. They should reduce the time to resolution."
"The product could be cheaper."
"Splunk needs to be able to hold more days of data. At the moment it only holds three months of data."
"I would like to see an updated dashboard. The dashboard is a little out-of-date. It could be made prettier."
"The GUI can be improved to include some of the capabilities that other BI solutions have."
PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". 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 ". PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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