No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

ArcSight Analytics vs Splunk User Behavior Analytics comparison

Why PeerSpot?
 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ArcSight Analytics
Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
17th
Average Rating
6.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk User Behavior Analytics
Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) category, the mindshare of ArcSight Analytics is 2.0%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk User Behavior Analytics is 4.8%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk User Behavior Analytics4.8%
ArcSight Analytics2.0%
Other93.2%
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1311453 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Good filtering and reporting tools but can be difficult to use
It can scale as needed. It's not a problem. There are different teams using it. We have CSOC, which is internal, which is onshore, then we have a security operations center that is offshore, which would be in India. The onshore team might be a group of three, and the offshore might be a group of five. Likely, we have eight to ten people in total using the product directly.
SK
Enterprise Architect at Wipro Limited
Offers intuitive deployment with strong customer support and advanced analytics features
There are improvements that could be made to Splunk User Behavior Analytics as any product will have advantages and disadvantages. Scalability is one consideration. For example, the advantages include rapid auto scaling to meet demand. A disadvantage is that it can lead to cost overrun if not properly factored or governed. The speed of deployment offers faster provisioning as an advantage, but it can require substantial automation skills and infrastructure as code expertise, which can be challenging. Cloud provides major operational benefits such as agility, automation, resilience, and global access when setting up on Cloud. However, it introduces challenges such as cost control, complexity, and vendor dependency. For example, global reach allows deployment of apps and services closer to users worldwide, but data sovereignty concerns exist and region selection must align with compliance requirements.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We have seen a measurable decrease in the mean time to detect and respond to threats."
"ArcSight Analytics is used to get a deeper insight and threat analysis about the network."
"This product improves visibility, whereas prior to implementing this solution there is no visibility."
"The two most valuable features of this solution are its stability and scalability."
"We use this solution for monitoring our network."
"The data collection and the integration with different products are valuable features."
"One of the most valuable features is the alerts."
"This solution makes it easy to create use cases, and it is easy to move queries from use cases to the report to the dashboard."
"We have seen a decrease in the mean time to detect threats by about 15 to 20 percent."
"It's straightforward in terms of configuration and troubleshooting and log management and monitoring as well. These are the edge points in addition to it being a modular solution where you can capitalize on your current licenses with extra licensing models, which can match the customer's business requirement and it can help the customer to design or to actually plan for their own roadmap."
"In Egypt, we have phones that provide wide internet services to the customer and the customer wants to know what the customer satisfaction and service was, then they post on their Facebook or Twitter page to measure the customer satisfaction and after one or two days they start to take the comments and they enter these comments to Splunk and the UBA starts to make correlations and analytics on this data, and finally, the managers or the decision maker get the results, which is wonderful, and the customer is satisfied."
"Features like alerts and auto report generation are valuable."
"The solution works very well with large data sets."
"The automation is very good; the product is at the forefront of auto-remediation networking and the pricing of the solution is very reasonable."
"The solution offers good searching and allows for easy creation of dashboards and reports."
"We are really pleased with Splunk and its features. It would be practically impossible to function without it. To provide a general overview of the system, it's important to note that the standard log files are currently around 250 gigabytes per day. It would be impossible to manually walk through these logs by hand, which is why automation is essential."
 

Cons

"Customer service has not been up to the mark. They take longer than they should to resolve issues."
"The UX for the SOC analyst does not match that of the competitors, and therefore needs improvement."
"You can use this solution for limited use cases. But for more advanced use cases, there are other solutions which are better than ArcSight."
"The reporting and the way it is worded needs to be improved in future releases. The dashboards are quite poorly designed."
"Their support team could be better."
"I faced stability issues with Windows Operating System. The installed connectors hang if they remain idle for a long period of time."
"The GUI and dashboards are very basic and need to be improved."
"The customer service could be improved, and additional integrations with other APIs could be added."
"A disadvantage is that it can lead to cost overrun if not properly factored or governed."
"Splunk can improve the UBA."
"The dashboard part could be improved."
"There are occasional bugs."
"One thing I would say is that they should continue to expand it on more devices."
"The initial setup was complex because some of the configurations that we required needed customization."
"The correlation engine should have persistent and definable rules."
"I would like to see an enhancement in the automation of creating the rules."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It can range between $30,000 and $40,000 USD, and can go up to $500,000 and $600,000 USD."
"My customers pay a yearly licensing fee for ArcSight Analytics."
"This solution is expensive."
"ArcSight Analytics is a bit expensive compared with other tools in terms of licensing costs, training, hardware implementation, and support."
"The monthly licensing fee is around $20,000. There aren't any costs in addition to the standard licensing fee."
"In addition to the costs of standard licensing fees, there is the cost of labor for maintenance."
"The licensing costs is around 10,000 dollars."
"My biggest complaint is the way they do pricing... You can never know the pricing for next year. Every single time you adjust to something new, the price goes up. It's impossible to truly budget for it. It goes up constantly."
"I hope we can increase the free license to be more than 5 gig a day. This would help people who want to introduce a POC or a demo license for the solution."
"There are additional costs associated with the integrator."
"Pricing varies based on the packages you choose and the volume of your usage."
"I am not aware of the price, but it is expensive."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) solutions are best for your needs.
920,769 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk User Behavior Analytics?
Splunk User Behavior Analytics is a premium product. Compared to all other products in the market, it is the most expensive one in all aspects including professional service and licenses, even the ...
What needs improvement with Splunk User Behavior Analytics?
Splunk User Behavior Analytics is still an immature product, so it still needs some R&D to be able to be mature in the market. The prediction, algorithms, and ML codes behind Splunk User Behavi...
What is your primary use case for Splunk User Behavior Analytics?
The main use cases for Splunk User Behavior Analytics include threat detection. I detect insider threats, compromised users, account misuse, and all those things. I use unsupervised and supervised ...
 

Also Known As

ArcSight User Behavior Analytics, ArcSight UBA
Caspida, Splunk UBA
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Information Not Available
8 Securities, AAA Western, AdvancedMD, Amaya, Cerner Corporation, CJ O Shopping, CloudShare, Crossroads Foundation, 7-Eleven Indonesia
Find out what your peers are saying about ArcSight Analytics vs. Splunk User Behavior Analytics and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
920,769 professionals have used our research since 2012.