We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Offers a valuable logging transport feature"
"It's easy to use."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
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"It is very easy to use and integrate. There are connectors for every technology."
"Splunk has significantly reduced the time in performing the task of aggregating logs, reviewing as well as time spent during investigations."
"Low barrier to start searching with the ability to normalize data on the fly."
"Splunk helps us be more proactive. We can take predictive action to identify and block threats so that nothing harmful gets into the system."
"Splunk would be my choice for the presentation layer because it comes with inbuilt reports and a dashboard that you can customize."
"The most valuable feature is the incident dashboard, and the extensive use of correlation searches, which isn't available with a standard Splunk search package. This feature is important to me because it enables SOC analysts to do their job more efficiently and be able to investigate or mediate incidents at a faster pace."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the dashboard. It's very intuitive."
"Its integration is most valuable. Its UI is also pretty much easy."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It could be even more automated."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be more stable."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
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"Splunk Enterprise Security can provide more details and help CISOs resolve vulnerability situations better. The reason is that the tools we choose for data analysis and log collection cannot collect all the data and logs. Splunk Enterprise Security should help me with this, but it cannot."
"The use cases provided by Splunk are a good starting point, but could cover many additional topics to ensure that a smaller or less experienced shop might maximize the value of an ES deployment."
"Licensing costs can be a barrier for those with limited budgets."
"Being a SIEM solution with a centralized dashboard, we would like to have more options to customize it."
"It would be nice if they had a wizard to construct searches, including more complex searches that include math or statistics."
"Deployment is not difficult but the lock sources and configurations can take time."
"The configuration could be better."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 26th in Log Management with 10 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 246 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". 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 ". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Sentry, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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