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Goliath Performance Monitor vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

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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

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
468
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 0.3% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 8.2% mindshare, down 9.1% since last year.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Goliath Performance Monitor0.5%
Zabbix4.7%
SolarWinds NPM3.6%
Other91.2%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security8.2%
IBM Security QRadar5.6%
Wazuh3.8%
Other82.4%
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

"In conclusion, I think Goliath Performance Monitor is a true winner."
"I like that it not only has the ability to monitor but that it can do a lot of specific Citrix monitoring."
"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."
"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 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 would definitely give them high praise for what they do, and for being a special niche product."
"Offers a diversity of features."
"They provide excellent predefined user cases."
"The stability and reliability of Splunk Enterprise Security is outstanding. It's a software and product that anybody can really pick up and use."
"Overall, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has saved us time and money by making it easier to investigate events."
"The advantages of Splunk over its competitors include the unified platform which includes everything from security to logging."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's most valuable features are its stability and the robust Splunk Search Processing Language, allowing extensive customization and analysis capabilities."
"In my opinion, the best features that Splunk Enterprise Security offers are the RBA part and the fact that you can easily define and develop apps while taking ownership of the tool."
"The end-to-end visibility into our environment that Splunk provides is impressive. We just need to use it better."
 

Cons

"Issues with generating reports; consistency is not there."
"The setup is a bit complex."
"With Goliath IT Monitors, the processing speed is very slow."
"However, its GUI can use a little help. The navigation is not the most straightforward like many other monitoring tools."
"I would love to be able to tell what ISP the user is coming from."
"Hardware requirements of the management server are kind of steep, 4cpu is quite a number."
"Deployment is not difficult but the lock sources and configurations can take time."
"The initial setup is complex, but this is necessary. We needed to take into consideration how to direct log files from thousands of machines to Splunk, and how to ingest those files."
"Pricing is certainly an area that could use improvement. While some vendors may offer lower prices, the value we receive here truly sets this solution apart."
"Our organization has very limited resources, so we would want to expand some of those automation and AI capabilities to fill those gaps."
"One improvement needed is addressing a UI bug that appears when pushing a detection via code into the test queue."
"We don't have SOAR products from Splunk. I believe that's an important piece."
"The UI can be improved. Dashboards and reports can be better in terms of graphics."
"The product was difficult to back up the first time."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price seems reasonable."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is a bit expensive overall, but it provides good value."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is an expensive solution."
"We had a yearly subscription."
"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."
"The pricing of Splunk Enterprise Security is somewhat high, but comparing it with its benefits, it's acceptable. It depends on the type of business."
"I work on the technical side, so I don't know precise figures. However, I know that Splunk is a premium product, so it's somewhat costly. Still, you get a lot of unique features for the money."
"The solution is a little expensive."
"It is economical than other solutions."
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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
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business135
Midsize Enterprise74
Large Enterprise320
 

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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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