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Power Admin PA File Sight vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

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
71st
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
7.3
Number of Reviews
375
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Power Admin PA File Sight is 0.2%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 6.9%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security6.9%
Power Admin PA File Sight0.2%
Other92.9%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

AntoSebastin - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Consultant - APAC at Logon Software
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…
reviewer1469784 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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

"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 the best tool if you have a complex environment or if data ingestion is too huge."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the incident review, which gives a good overview of our security incidents."
"Everything I'm seeing now in Splunk Enterprise Security is effective, especially the AI and the Attack Analyzer, which I found particularly impressive."
"The fact that Splunk is a platform and not just a SIEM solution is a key benefit."
"The initial setup is really straightforward. It's one of the easiest installations."
"I can create dashboards to collect and view information in a tabular, graphical format. This feature is important because it helps me understand time-series data over one or two hours."
"The best feature I've seen is the ability to easily change the query based on the dashboard or based on the chart we have to create, allowing any value or metric we want to add to that particular chart while keeping the rest of the dashboard settings intact."
"The most valuable feature is the incident dashboard, and the extensive use of correlation searches, which isn't available with a standard Splunk search package. This feature is important to me because it enables SOC analysts to do their job more efficiently and be able to investigate or mediate incidents at a faster pace."
 

Cons

"The setup takes half an hour. It will be a little complex."
"It's difficult to set up initially, and their billing model is also a bit complicated."
"Its interface could be improved."
"The solution could improve by making it more business analysis oriented. The way it is now is designed more for developers."
"The user interface is not user-friendly for non-technical users."
"The setup time is quite long."
"The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"The incident response dashboard could be more user-friendly."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Splunk should be able to integrate with other product using the free version."
"The cost is on the high end, which makes it difficult for some organizations to use."
"It is economical than other solutions."
"The price can always be lower, but it is fair at the moment. The cost efficiencies depend on the licensing and how much data we are bringing in. We have a fairly large footprint, so it is cost-effective."
"In addition to the licensing fee, there is also a support and maintenance charge."
"It's definitely worth it."
"Splunk is costly but it’s worth it due to the high-end features."
"Splunk is really expensive compared to all the other tools on the market, including Microsoft Sentinel."
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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 26, 2015
HP ArcSight vs. IBM QRadar vs. ​McAfee Nitro vs. Splunk vs. RSA Security vs. LogRhythm
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business109
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise264
 

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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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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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