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."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM."
"The ability to quickly identify downtime is the most valuable."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"As we look to add more servers to our virtual environment and to understand the impact, the solution allows us to dig into the historical charts related to capacity planning."
"It covers everything from end to end, from the standpoint of endpoint machines and the routers and switches. The switch port also comes there."
"This solution offers a very good view of our network and allows us to effectively monitor performance."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"The most valuable features are the logs, which allow us to identify what happened and who interacted with the web repository."
"We can do things in minutes instead of days."
"Splunk has helped improve our company's resilience level."
"The product provides visibility and enables us to correlate data and generate alerts."
"Recently, Splunk upgraded to version 9.0.02, which includes excellent data dashboards and visualization effects."
"I have also been able to take advantage of some of the more complex statistical capabilities when analyzing logs."
"The technical support has been very good. They are very responsive and have been helpful."
"In the past we used the different application to collect logs. We used SurfWatch and VMware to do so. But, we found that the Splunk has more capacity to do more in less time. They provide a aster speed to index all the events , and this is a huge asset."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If they’re going for a “cover everything” approach, then they need to do so and enable a bit more of the "cover everything approach" within every one of the tools."
"The solution's customer service is not very good because the support takes too long."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
"The dashboard of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"This solution would benefit from expanding on the capabilities within the API."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"Some of the search functions can be better. There has been a lot of talk at the conference about the update of SPL before each iteration. That will be a lot of help."
"I have concerns about the architecture as well since I can see it is not very well defined."
"The initial setup is complex, but this is necessary. We needed to take into consideration how to direct log files from thousands of machines to Splunk, and how to ingest those files."
"It will be helpful for customers if they can create some real-world cases, and we can find a case study to align with. I know that Splunk has tremendous potential. We only include a tiny piece of it. There is a lot of stuff that we need to learn. If Splunk can provide more real-time examples, that will be helpful for customers."
"I think the machine learning should be emphasized. Now, it's really important to analyze Big Data, data mining. A SIEM solution, like Splunk, needs an improved data mining solution, artificial intelligence."
"An improved user interface along with multi-tenancy support would be beneficial."
"AngularJS/ReactJS inclusion could be made easier in GUI."
"Endpoint access is the only issue I can think to mention, even though the endpoint access we have with Cisco is fine."
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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