We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Splunk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Splunk is clear the winner in this comparison. It is easier to deploy, more user-friendly, and has better support than Azure Monitor. In addition, Splunk received positive feedback in the ROI category.
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"Capability to expand the functionality through custom code for data inputs, commands, visualization, alerts, and machine learning."
"To get visibility from your network devices, servers, and security devices is a great feature."
"Recently, Splunk upgraded to version 9.0.02, which includes excellent data dashboards and visualization effects."
"It gives us the liberty to do more in terms of use cases."
"The UI of Splunk makes it easier for our analysts to move around and see what they need to see."
"The ability to manage large amounts of generated data and to protect all devices from unauthorized use are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Splunk Enterprise Security are its high-performance data collection, flexible query language, and its versatility across the organization."
"The ability to ingest any data and display it in a way that anyone can understand."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"have used multiple products like Webex and PRTG. Some features could be added. Azure Monitor should add SMS and APIs. We have very limited access to Azure Monitor. I usually get alerts on my phone when they are integrated with Slack. I am not always available, but my team is. Sometimes, I am traveling and don't have access to my email, but I have Slack and other third-party projects that send me instant messages if a sensor goes down."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"The presence of multiple layers creates a significant challenge for monitoring across cloud environments."
"Deployment is not difficult but the lock sources and configurations can take time."
"On-premises scaling of the solution is a bit more limited than it is on the cloud."
"In terms of the interface, it could include some improvements for the look and feel."
"Given the ever-increasing number of threats, I would like Splunk to update its threat signatures more frequently."
"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."
"The configuration could be better."
"I would like to see an updated dashboard. The dashboard is a little out-of-date. It could be made prettier."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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 ". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and AppDynamics. See our Azure Monitor vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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Hi @Netanya Carmi,
Below are some comparisons on features and Integrations.
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we have problems somewhere or if we are not getting the flow we expect. It is very easy to search for queries and events and then do analysis. The flexibility of the search capability is extremely valuable. Splunk works well with other solutions. It is very easy to set up and very straightforward to deploy.
The more data you process with Splunk, the more expensive it gets; an improved pricing model is needed. It would be great if Splunk had more SIEM functionality with better customization and a better ticket tool. The on-premises scaling is a bit more limited than on the cloud. Splunk currently has some limited default rules and customizations. If they could concentrate more on compliance and security information, that would be an added bonus.
Azure Monitor has made it significantly easier for us to monitor applications and infrastructure for possible problems. This solution offers a survey of surveillance in real time and a very helpful dashboard. Azure Monitor, which is integrated with Azure DevOps, has good load gathering and very good analytics. We get useful alerts with Azure Monitor that make recommendations about the security and the platform.
There should be more specific detail about where problems lie. Azure Monitor is lacking somewhat in vulnerability assessment; this aspect could be better. Their automation also needs some improvement. From gathering metrics from more applications to getting processes quickly started when something goes down, automation should be better.
Conclusion:
For us, Splunk is the better solution. We use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze, and visualize machine data, which it does very well. The dashboard is very intuitive. The log collection and log management tools are very good. We find Splunk’s search capability to be very powerful and flexible. Splunk can access any kind of data and there is no limitation to the kind of structured or unstructured data you can extract. Our team also liked that Splunk offers better integration with more solutions.