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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
18th
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
369
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 0.5%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 22.4%, down from 27.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security22.4%
Evolven0.5%
Other77.1%
IT Operations Analytics
 

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.
Kyle Vernham - PeerSpot reviewer
Built-in searches and unified data access streamline alert investigation and boosts analyst efficiency
The two features I appreciate the most in Splunk Enterprise Security are the built-in searches, which have been very easy for us to get started with right out of the box, and the fact that it accesses all of our other systems. You can access it as a pane of glass rather than having to search individually. We also have the option to compare our analysts from our service to service. Splunk Enterprise Security helps our SOC team prioritize and investigate high-fidelity alerts more effectively by providing a more in-depth look and the ability to access a lot more of our data. Instead of jumping from several segmented systems, it allows us to have everything brought together in one place. For example, you have to move from our purview to our build system and to Splunk Enterprise Security, and it enables us to streamline that process. The built-in features of Splunk Enterprise Security, which we recently procured, have given us a good starting point and demonstrated the value of the product, providing an easy way to sell it to our company. The ease of getting everything into our purview helps us, and it serves as a good start for the investigation part in one location rather than what we usually have, which is jumping from system to system to system. Splunk Enterprise Security plays a role in our company's strategy to combat insider threats and advanced persistent threats by currently being in its technical test phase. We are still rolling it out, and it should help us find any insider threats based on information that our policy states should not be present in our system. Splunk Enterprise Security's risk-based alerting (RBA) has impacted our alert volume and analyst productivity because we've got many different systems feeding into it. However, it has helped to make it easier for our analysts to go through a set of events rather than 100 alerts. RBA allows us to streamline the process and customize it for our analysts. When it comes to leveraging Splunk Enterprise Security's dashboards and visualizations to communicate security posture to executives, it's pretty straightforward for any type of information. The visualization is easy to understand, but I haven't had any direct conversations with our executives.

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."
"Aggregation searches have reduced time and difficulty of identifying trends and conditions which need to reviewed."
"The reporting aspect is good and it does what I need it to do."
"Splunk is extremely flexible, which allows us to create custom visualizations along with other customizations."
"One key advantage of Splunk over competitors like IBM QRadar is its superior device integration capabilities."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Splunk Enterprise Security scales well with the growing needs of our company."
"I really appreciate the all-integrated SIEM feature of Splunk Enterprise Security, which serves as a one-stop shop to get all security tasks done."
"The stock analysts and security people use one single dashboard (one single location) to check our logs."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"I do not have any pain points for Splunk Enterprise Security. I am still trying to learn it, but there can be more information on the education side for Splunk Enterprise Security. It would be nice if the certification path was more specific to what I use instead of being so broad."
"The security can be improved."
"Resource usage can probably be described as an area with shortcomings in the product where improvements are required."
"The incident response technique should be available out of the box. That isn't as available as we would expect."
"There are limitations with Splunk not detecting all user activity, especially on mainframes and network devices."
"I think the machine learning should be emphasized. Now, it's really important to analyze Big Data, data mining. A SIEM solution, like Splunk, needs an improved data mining solution, artificial intelligence."
"Splunk can improve regex/asset analysis as we do not want to crawl until it is done."
"The only improvement I am expecting is the cost of the licensing. Clients are going to other solutions just because of the cost."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The licensing model can be expensive, but the value it provides is significant."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's pricing is pretty competitive."
"The cost is on the high end, which makes it difficult for some organizations to use."
"Pricing and licensing is quite expensive. But for the value the product provides, it seems at par in the market."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is an expensive solution."
"Unlike other security tools, Splunk provides a fixed amount of gigabytes per day, and we are required to pay for any additional usage beyond that limit, in addition to our monthly cost."
"Splunk is expensive based on our current requirements, but it's obviously worth what we pay."
"This product could use better pricing in general."
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Top Industries

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

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Midsize Enterprise49
Large Enterprise257
 

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