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Goliath Performance Monitor vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Goliath Performance Monitor
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (72nd)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
464
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Goliath Performance Monitor is designed for IT Infrastructure Monitoring and holds a mindshare of 0.5%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 7.8% mindshare, down 9.7% since last year.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Goliath Performance Monitor0.5%
Zabbix4.7%
Datadog3.6%
Other91.2%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security7.8%
IBM Security QRadar5.6%
Wazuh4.0%
Other82.6%
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

networke29316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
Monitors well with Citrix, stable, and the support is very responsive
It looks like it is easy to scale, but I don't know how far it can go out. We are only a 300, or 400 person company. We are not terribly large. It looks like it should be able to scale up until 10,000 at least. There are two users in the company who use this solution, I use it, and the helpdesk.
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

"I would definitely give them high praise for what they do, and for being a special niche product."
"I think Goliath offers a very good tool to do simulated Citrix logons with actual user accounts and that the reports are useful to monitor and debug a session."
"I like that the solution offers a diversity of things; it can give you resource monitoring, it can be integrated to detect an application crash, to capture syslog, things like that, and I like the diversity of the dashboard."
"I like that it not only has the ability to monitor but that it can do a lot of specific Citrix monitoring."
"Offers a diversity of features."
"My overall conclusion is that it is a valuable product for simulating Citrix logons because it does it with minimal effort and with a real user account."
"In conclusion, I think Goliath Performance Monitor is a true winner."
"The speed of the search engine"
"Splunk has many good apps and has a contribution from all security vendors."
"The user interface is excellent, and since I'm using Splunk as a power user, it's easy to create dashboards."
"Splunk Enterprise Security stands out for its ability to integrate with existing security tools, provide informative dashboards, and offer IT Service Assurance functionality that goes beyond basic threat detection to include service performance monitoring."
"It helps us uncover bottlenecks in the network."
"It brings together all sorts of data and has the ability to correlate data, analyze and review it, making weekly ops reviews and monthly executive management reporting much easier by saving hours of collecting data, with report automation being a life saver."
"The correlation search functions that generate all the notables are valuable. That can get pretty complicated, and it handles that pretty well."
"Before Splunk, we used Kibana and Elasticsearch; sometimes, with them, logs wouldn't even be there, so Splunk being there and working does a lot."
 

Cons

"With Goliath IT Monitors, the processing speed is very slow."
"Hardware requirements of the management server are kind of steep, 4cpu is quite a number."
"Issues with generating reports; consistency is not there."
"However, its GUI can use a little help. The navigation is not the most straightforward like many other monitoring tools."
"The setup is a bit complex."
"I would love to be able to tell what ISP the user is coming from."
"The security can be improved."
"Endpoint access is the only issue I can think to mention, even though the endpoint access we have with Cisco is fine."
"The pricing of Splunk Enterprise Security is not very affordable, and I have seen many companies planning to leave because of cost concerns."
"In my personal opinion, it is too complicated. Installing forwarders and trying to get an overview of a network topology with Splunk Enterprise Security is challenging."
"It would be great if I could have a certain dialogue box in Splunk that uses innovative AI tools like ChatGPT, which are available now in the tech department."
"Adding custom visualization in Splunk has been improved over the years but can still be made better by integrating more and more JavaScript visualization sources."
"Overall, I don't think that this is a very good product and I don't recommend it."
"It takes time to train people."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price seems reasonable."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is not at all cost-friendly to be deployed in very small enterprises like start-ups."
"We had a yearly subscription."
"It is a bit costly."
"Most people share the same thought that the ingestion rates can get pretty pricey. There is a lot of work we do to curate the data that we send to Splunk so that it is not too noisy or too expensive."
"Splunk Enterprise Security incurs a significant cost because of the amount of data we send, but we are fine with the value we're getting for that price."
"It is a pretty high cost solution, but if your organization has the funds, it can bring many benefits."
"In terms of pricing, I believe Splunk is unreasonably costly for the majority of mid and small-sized companies."
"I am fine with the licensing, but in terms of the cost, it is expensive for the data that we have. We have an open discussion with our account rep about this."
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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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Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business135
Midsize Enterprise75
Large Enterprise316
 

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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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