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Evolven vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

Evolven
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
23rd
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
375
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 1.2%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 15.4%, down from 26.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security15.4%
Evolven1.2%
Other83.4%
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

MF
Business Analyst at Swisscom
Provides visualization of risk levels. However, alerting needs improvement.
Our primary use case is operational analytics. It gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before. It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency. Provides visualization of risk levels. Alerting needs improvement. Less than one year.
reviewer1469784 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Helps us detect cyber threats quickly and integrate multiple feeds effectively
Overall, the product is good, but when it comes to some infrastructure issues, we have to dig into more logs. There is no straightforward indication of an issue. Health check kind of dashboards are not available. More AI would help us, and more optimization, since security products run more queries. The AI module could suggest solutions, optimizing queries or workload balancing. If the product itself advises on running queries during peak times, it would be similar to what ChatGPT currently offers. We see quite a few issues on stability. Even last week, we faced something, and identifying bottlenecks is not easy. We need more SMEs, and there is no mechanism to tell us about indexer or search head issues. Self-monitoring dashboards could be beneficial. The technical support still requires more improvement. Often, primary support takes a lot of time and forwards most solutions to the engineering side. The primary support team has very limited knowledge to provide.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It provides visualization of risk levels."
"It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has helped improve my organization's business resilience, as we were able to detect an attack that was happening after hours and prevent it thanks to the detections."
"We have a more secure, robust environment, which keeps the harmful software out of the zone required."
"What I appreciate about Splunk Enterprise Security is creating the newest SPL for network traffic and using the risk-based alerting feature that helps my organization by allowing me to learn more information about Splunk every day because it is a big platform."
"It scales better in the cloud than on-premise."
"I have also been able to take advantage of some of the more complex statistical capabilities when analyzing logs."
"The features of Splunk Enterprise Security that I appreciate the most include the SPL search."
"The feature that we use the most is the correlation search engine within ES."
"The user interface is excellent, and since I'm using Splunk as a power user, it's easy to create dashboards."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"The integration with all our tool sets felt like we were reinventing the wheel, which was a pain point for us."
"The AWS add-on is particularly problematic, with most inputs requiring manual writing due to lack of out-of-box functionality."
"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."
"Endpoint access is the only issue I can think to mention, even though the endpoint access we have with Cisco is fine."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"I find the process for customizing, developing, testing, deploying, and refining detections in Splunk Enterprise Security to be cumbersome."
"At Splunk .conf24, I saw a demo for Splunk Enterprise Security 8. All the things that they have done in Splunk Enterprise Security 8 are what it can be better at."
"It could be more user friendly, in terms of the end-user experience."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Splunk Enterprise Security's pricing is pretty competitive."
"It would be nice if the pricing were cheaper. However, we did purchase it."
"The price is comparable."
"There is an annual license required to use this solution."
"It's definitely worth it."
"Splunk is not a cheap solution and the license is billed annually."
"The price of Splunk is reasonable."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is a worthwhile investment given the comprehensive range of features it offers."
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Comparison Review

VS
Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 26, 2015
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We at Infosecnirvana.com have done several posts on SIEM. After the Dummies Guide on SIEM, we are following it up with a SIEM Product Comparison – 101 deck. So, here it is for your viewing pleasure. Let me know what you think by posting your comments below. The key products compared here are…
 

Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business109
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise264
 

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Sample Customers

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