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Goliath Performance Monitor vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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 (67th)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
381
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), 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 7.2% mindshare, down 9.8% since last year.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Goliath Performance Monitor0.5%
Zabbix6.1%
Datadog4.1%
Other89.3%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security7.2%
Wazuh5.8%
IBM Security QRadar5.3%
Other81.7%
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 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 would definitely give them high praise for what they do, and for being a special niche product."
"Offers a diversity of features."
"I like that it not only has the ability to monitor but that it can do a lot of specific Citrix monitoring."
"It scales better in the cloud than on-premise."
"It actually helps us by not having to develop all the use cases ourselves, providing an integrated product that has everything in one place."
"The two features I appreciate most in Splunk Enterprise Security are the content management system and the inter-incident review dashboard."
"We have found all the features useful. However, the dashboarding and logging have been very helpful."
"Out-of-the-box, it seems very powerful."
"The product has a good security posture."
"The alerts are very effective."
"Splunk setup is easy and straightforward. ​"
 

Cons

"The setup is a bit complex."
"With Goliath IT Monitors, the processing speed is very slow."
"Issues with generating reports; consistency is not there."
"I would love to be able to tell what ISP the user is coming from."
"I would like some additional AI capabilities to provide additional information about things going wrong and things going well."
"It does not give us permission to implement on-premise so we implement them on the cloud."
"While there aren't any major areas where the solution has to be improved, there are certain integrations that are still not available. I would specifically like to see legacy applications integrated."
"Its user interface for everything other than the charts can be improved."
"I would like some additional AI capabilities to provide additional information about things going wrong and things going well."
"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."
"It would be good if the solution had some kind of copilot to automate or help write correlation searches."
"I have not seen ROI with Splunk Enterprise Security."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price seems reasonable."
"We had a yearly subscription."
"Splunk is not a cheap solution and the license is billed annually."
"It's definitely worth it."
"Splunk is definitely not a cheap solution. It is an expensive product."
"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."
"This product could use better pricing in general."
"The pricing can be better. We are already considering Elastic because Splunk is too expensive. You have to pay based on per-day ingestion. There should be a more flexible model for the use cases where one day you have a huge amount, and on other days, it is quite less."
"While Splunk offers generous developer licenses and obtaining annual licenses is straightforward, the cost is a major consideration."
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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
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business112
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise267
 

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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...
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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 ...
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