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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
25th
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
7.2
Number of Reviews
418
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 1.3%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 13.4%, down from 23.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security13.4%
Evolven1.3%
Other85.3%
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.
Sathis-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Bank of America
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 gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before."
"It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency."
"Once you complete this setup, the product is amazing and will do all of the work."
"It provides logs in one place, so they are easy to find. It collects the logs from multiple places, then you have just one place where you see the whole flow from the front-end to the back-end."
"The solution is very fast and succinct."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the criticality of alerts."
"It is very scalable."
"It is user-friendly. It is more effective than other solutions. The support and help for troubleshooting and the documentation from Splunk make it very effective."
"It is stable, very powerful, and their support is good."
"It's better than IBM, in my opinion, because it's an independent entity."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"The tool itself is very difficult to configure. It's great for its number of inputs, for the different types of systems devices, and things that it could collect information from. To actually make good use of it, you need a fairly dedicated team of people that have some reasonably good programming or modeling skills to be able to do the things that you need to do with it. Whereas a lot of the other tools are better packaged for that, and so require a lot less training and a lot less dedication."
"An area of improvement would be the licensing of the solution. They need a free license, which would allow faster lead times."
"It takes time to train people."
"Features related to content management must be improved."
"When it comes to out of the box use cases, I feel the solution to be too slow."
"The incident response technique should be available out of the box. That isn't as available as we would expect."
"Regarding areas of Splunk Enterprise Security that I think could be improved or enhanced, I am continuously getting the task of upgrading the system. For example, we have multiple heavy forwarders, and every time we upgrade the system, there should be some issue after an upgrade."
"I'd say I am happy with the technical support, not elated. They provide great support, but sometimes they don't have the answers that I need."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It can be tough to determine if you are getting all of the value out of your investment at times."
"The price can always be lower, but it is fair at the moment. The cost efficiencies depend on the licensing and how much data we are bringing in. We have a fairly large footprint, so it is cost-effective."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's pricing is based on data volume, which generally suits large enterprises."
"Luckily, we come under a large federal agency, and before the pandemic, they signed a large enterprise license agreement. It worked out great and to our advantage because we are a small organization. We got a 300 gig license, and we just did not have the buying power to be able to get products cheaply. Because we all partnered together under the agency umbrella, we were able to get Splunk Enterprise Security, UBA, and ITSI for cheap. This was good considering the fact that some of these premium apps require a minimum number of users, and we do not have the number of people needed to even justify buying it."
"The tool's licensing is good and we haven't received any complaints from the team handling it."
"It is expensive, but it is a good tool. It is worth the cost."
"Setup cost is cheap: It is free, it is user-friendly, and it is fast."
"We had a yearly subscription."
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Comparison Review

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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 26, 2015
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

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Midsize Enterprise65
Large Enterprise285
 

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