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 most valuable feature of SolarWinds NPM is the performance monitoring to see the memory, and CPU utilization."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The stability is fantastic."
"It is scalable."
"A product that is well-tested and trusted in demanding situations."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"Technical support has always been great. They are very responsive. We've been satisfied with their level of support."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk is the log monitoring."
"Splunk would be my choice for the presentation layer because it comes with inbuilt reports and a dashboard that you can customize."
"Splunk allows us to find insights that we were not able to with traditional BI tools using ETL. It allows us to dig into raw events."
"Splunk has improved our operations by giving us access to more information and allowing us to deploy more use cases."
"It is very stable. We have not had any problems."
"Its usability is the best part. It is easy for our developers to use if they want to search their logs, etc."
"The most valuable feature is the DSS, also known as SPL, because it allows users to script advanced queries with limited knowledge."
"Its huge, versatile AppBase helped me to configure and bring data from different sources to a unified platform."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve the graphics of the interface and more customized reporting."
"Technical support and releases are not particularly reliable."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"Application Performance Monitoring should be included in this solution."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"Having more technical and support resources available in Saudi Arabia would be helpful."
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"Robustness of network element mapping tool could be better"
"I love the solution, but I would like to see more accessibility to the machine-learning capabilities that are sprinkled around Splunk."
"The user access control could be much more granular, so that the admins can control r/w/x access for specific features of the product like dashboards, etc."
"Splunk should have more regional data centers in the Middle East."
"I would like the ability to view logs for specific instances and not have to pull the logs for the entire Cloud environment in Splunk."
"They should make data onboarding easier."
"The integration with all our tool sets felt like we were reinventing the wheel, which was a pain point for us."
"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 support and the pricing can be better"
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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