We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The sky is the limit because the solution is a flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"It has helped us look at modern technology, as well as penetrate our legacy systems, to see where the bottlenecks are."
"The solution's newly developed dashboard is pretty amazing."
"The data representation options in the dashboards are excellent."
"The flexibility of the solution is quite good."
"Recently, Splunk upgraded to version 9.0.02, which includes excellent data dashboards and visualization effects."
"It's better than IBM, in my opinion, because it's an independent entity."
"We can present to our management in real time the security of the batch management for the PCs, security regarding the network equipment. We're currently working in the Azure Cloud project, so we can send any logs from the cloud to Splunk. We can monitor them and we can present to the managers and customers. It's a very good solution for reporting. We use Splunk for reporting and monitoring of any solution in the company."
"The connections to the database are very good and updating the data files is simple to do. The dashboards are useful and user-friendly."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated."
"The scalability must be improved."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"The DSL could be improved."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
"We were inundated with the amount of alerts and alarms that we could get out of it. It is also a resource hog and we didn't have the resources to support it on-prem so we're taking it offline now."
"I would like to see more SIEM functionality and a better ticket tool."
"Its interface could be improved."
"The integration could be a bit better. They charge for certain integrations."
"The support that is included with the standard licensing fee is very bad."
"It would be nice if Splunk reduced the cost of training. Their training sessions are way too costly."
"The implementation and the scanning of the logs can be difficult."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 244 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". 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 ". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Honeycomb.io, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Prometheus vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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