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Power Admin PA File Sight vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 13, 2025

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

Power Admin PA File Sight
Ranking in Log Management
33rd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in Log Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
327
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Power Admin PA File Sight is 0.0%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 7.4%, down from 9.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security7.4%
Power Admin PA File Sight0.0%
Other92.6%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

AntoSebastin - PeerSpot reviewer
Good stability and preferred choice for DLP needs over other solutions
The customers who have the use case of monitoring the file server and want to know the user's activity. It's the Power Admin's requirement, actually. Power Admin has been recommended, plus Power Admin has some quick features in place of DLP features, actually I work with two solutions. Both…
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log analysis
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has also a query language in which they search their log files, but once you have identified the log file that you want to use for further security correlation, you want to very quickly transport that into your SIEM tool, such as Microsoft Sentinel. That is something that Splunk could make a little bit less painful because it is a lot of effort to find that log file and forward it. An API with Microsoft Sentinel or a similar SIEM tool would be a good idea.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The customers who have the use case of monitoring the file server and want to know the user's activity. It's the Power Admin's requirement."
"It is lovely to have everything we need in one tool. Everything is quite centralized."
"Splunk would be my choice for the presentation layer because it comes with inbuilt reports and a dashboard that you can customize."
"I am satisfied with the support."
"The most valuable feature is the custom dashboard feature."
"It has virtual visualization, and other products do not."
"I like the Splunk dashboard and search engine."
"The ability to ingest different log types from many different products in our environment is most valuable."
"We were able to create a catalog of dashboards and have a holistic view at all levels. We could understand our business much better. Real-time errors, which were buried in emails before now, surfaced up on dashboards."
 

Cons

"The setup takes half an hour. It will be a little complex."
"The solution could improve by making it more business analysis oriented. The way it is now is designed more for developers."
"Sometimes the communication with support happens with multiple staff. They should reduce the time to resolution."
"The user access control could be much more granular, so that the admins can control r/w/x access for specific features of the product like dashboards, etc."
"The incident response technique should be available out of the box. That isn't as available as we would expect."
"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."
"One area Splunk Enterprise Security fails to improve is the pricing aspect; while the initial pricing seems fine, the licensing cost can skyrocket over time, creating trauma for organizations."
"Given the ever-increasing number of threats, I would like Splunk to update its threat signatures more frequently."
"It'd be really nice if Splunk Enterprise Security had a better and solid configuration guide."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Its pricing model can be improved."
"This solution is costly. Splunk is obviously a great product, but you should only choose this product if you need all the features provided. Otherwise, if you don't need all the features to meet your requirements, there are probably other products that will be more cost-effective. It's cost versus the functionality requirement."
"Pricing and licensing is quite expensive. But for the value the product provides, it seems at par in the market."
"Splunk should be able to integrate with other product using the free version."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's pricing is competitive."
"The pricing depends on the bandwidth of an organization and is good compared to some SIEM tools. IBM, for example, is quite costly. But Microsoft Sentinel is notably cheaper."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive. I would rate the cost an eight out of ten with ten being the most expensive."
"Splunk is definitely not a cheap solution. It is an expensive product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business105
Midsize Enterprise44
Large Enterprise225
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Power Admin PA File Sight?
The customers who have the use case of monitoring the file server and want to know the user's activity. It's the Power Admin's requirement.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Power Admin PA File Sight?
It will be costly. Actually, it will be more expensive compared to the other solutions. I would rate the pricing a two out of ten, with one being expensive and ten being cheap. The licensing model ...
What needs improvement with Power Admin PA File Sight?
There is room for improvement in terms of the pricing model.
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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Sample Customers

Bartling IT, Symantec, Pohlmann & Dimai GbR, 3M, L4U Library Software, Global Collect, On-Site Computer Solutions, Astra Tech Inc, TechProse, SysKon, Maine Medical Center, Presbyterian Foundation, Infineum, DDT
Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
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