We performed a comparison between Splunk Enterprise Security and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can automatically suspend or terminate suspicious sessions."
"Search language is easy to understand and teach to new users."
"Splunk has facilitated the correlation of information security logs to look for incidents which could cause damage to the company's infrastructure, as well as financial losses from leaks."
"This solution helps us increase our productivity."
"The most valuable feature is the log aggregation, being able to scan through all of the logs."
"One key advantage of Splunk over competitors like IBM QRadar is its superior device integration capabilities."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Splunk is."
"It helps us uncover bottlenecks in the network."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"The user interface is good enough."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"Splunk does not build apps. They only go back and validate the apps that somebody has already built. They should have remote consulting support. They have a wonderful solution. They have 24/7 security. Nobody needs to depend on any third party and will therefore just buy Splunk on the cloud."
"The product's price may be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"Splunk's implementation process for managing multiple indexes can be complex, especially when dealing with a large number of components."
"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."
"Integrating tools and creating use cases could be easier. It's hard for a junior security engineer with only a couple of years of experience to write use cases. They can do it, but it's much easier in a solution like IBM QRadar. Setting conditions is like a multiple-choice type of thing. It's a more user-friendly process."
"The GUI could be improved to include some of the capabilities that other BI solutions have. The layout is a little restrictive where you can’t resize all the panels to exactly how you would like them without tweaking some XML code."
"The pricing can be better."
"The product is old and not updated."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 246 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Azure Monitor. See our Splunk Enterprise Security vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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