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Evolven vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 13, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Evolven
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
16th
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
7.4
Number of Reviews
327
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 0.4%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 23.6%, down from 28.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

MF
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.
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log analysis
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has also a query language in which they search their log files, but once you have identified the log file that you want to use for further security correlation, you want to very quickly transport that into your SIEM tool, such as Microsoft Sentinel. That is something that Splunk could make a little bit less painful because it is a lot of effort to find that log file and forward it. An API with Microsoft Sentinel or a similar SIEM tool would be a good idea.

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 has improved our operations by giving us access to more information and allowing us to deploy more use cases."
"Its compatibility with other SIEMS is very useful."
"Alerts when a server is malfunctioning, monitors external attacks, and takes action to stop spreading viruses."
"You can run reports against multiple devices at the same time. You are able to troubleshoot a single application on a thousand servers. You can do this with a single query, since it is very easy to do."
"I like Splunk's automated threat detection and orchestration capabilities. Splunk offers a single solution for analyzing, aggregating, correlating, monitoring, reporting, visualizing, etc. You can get all of these capabilities in one place. On top of that, it provides a cloud, testing, on-premise, and hybrid solution, giving customers more flexibility for their use cases."
"The solution helped reduce our alert volume."
"From my experience, the visual aid that it provides is most valuable. There are charts and other means to provide information."
"They have approximately 50,000 predefined correlation rules, which is quite a lot, and I find that good."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"There are a lot of competitive products that are doing better than what Splunk is doing on the analytics side."
"Most of my interaction is with the user community, which is how Splunk wants it. When I need help, that community is very hit or miss."
"The UI could be better. This is applicable to Splunk in general. I know that a lot of people who get their hands on Splunk are hesitant to use it just because they find it overwhelming. There are a lot of options."
"The access and identity features could be improved. For example, let's say we have onboarded 65 logs. Now, we can identify the various processes, but we run into trouble when we're updating the processes for AWS CloudTrail, EDR, MDR, and XDR."
"Splunk's high cost, despite its recognition in our region, prevents many organizations from adopting Splunk Enterprise Security, suggesting there's room for improvement in their pricing strategy."
"Considering the contract thing and the whole legal area, it takes forever to get the contracts signed and to be able to agree to the terms and conditions for my company as well as for Splunk's team."
"The product could be cheaper."
"Resource usage can probably be described as an area with shortcomings in the product where improvements are required."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"This solution is costly. Splunk is obviously a great product, but you should only choose this product if you need all the features provided. Otherwise, if you don't need all the features to meet your requirements, there are probably other products that will be more cost-effective. It's cost versus the functionality requirement."
"The pricing is based on the volume of data fed into it, which can lead to substantial costs. This pricing model is complex and unpredictable, making cost management difficult."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is an expensive solution."
"It is a bit costly."
"Splunk is a bit pricier, but the benefits and ROI are huge."
"Pricing and licensing is quite expensive. But for the value the product provides, it seems at par in the market."
"Its price is fair. Like with anything else, if you go into the cloud, different providers cost more, and you are able to throttle back or throttle up. The cost is comparable with anything else."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is priced lower than competitors."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
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Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

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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 a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
 

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