We performed a comparison between Change Auditor for Windows File Servers and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."In terms of features, the querying is great."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it can be fully integrated with Microsoft solutions and it doesn't impact the productivity order."
"Good for log collection and log management."
"The solution is the market leader."
"It's basically one of the best SIEM products on the market."
"It definitely does help with both auditing and as well as regular monitoring. SOC does more monitoring, but ES also gives you other features that are auditing-related. The dashboards are also beneficial."
"I like the search feature and the indexing. It's very fast and comprehensive."
"The correlation capabilities are the first value that our clients say they like with Splunk."
"The ability to view all of these different logs, then drilling down into specific times or into specific data sources, has proved to be the greatest aspect in decreasing our troubleshooting overhead time."
"Our clients use the solution to find any threats or vulnerabilities inside their environment."
"The customer service and support could improve their approach to questioning issues. They tend to ask questions one at a time, which creates a lot of back-and-forth communication."
"The pricing could be improved. It needs to be reduced."
"Delays in responses from the technical team can pose challenges for both vendors and clients, especially considering that Splunk applications and machine solutions are critical assets."
"Could be more user friendly."
"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."
"Queries are not always as easy or straightforward as they might be, so it can be difficult to figure out what you need to look for."
"Most of my interaction is with the user community, which is how Splunk wants it. When I need help, that community is very hit or miss."
"The product's price may be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It would be nice if they had a wizard to construct searches, including more complex searches that include math or statistics."
"Splunk can be an expensive solution. Technical support could be improved as well."
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Change Auditor for Windows File Servers is ranked 55th in Log Management with 2 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 240 reviews. Change Auditor for Windows File Servers is rated 9.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Change Auditor for Windows File Servers writes "Provides granular queries of security logs and real-time alerting helps me mitigate risks". 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 ". Change Auditor for Windows File Servers is most compared with Quest InTrust, Wazuh and IBM Security QRadar, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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