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Quest InTrust [EOL] vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Quest InTrust [EOL]
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Security
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
403
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user700032 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber and Information Security Officer at a energy/utilities company
Technical support is knowledgeable and quick to respond
It is used for compliance Gathering information Scheduling It needs to have better reporting.  More than five years. We have not encountered any issues with stability. We have not encountered any issues with scalability. I would rate the technical support very well as they are…
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 rate the technical support very well as they are knowledgeable and quick to respond​."
"We have not encountered any issues with stability."
"Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) has very good capability of storing, analyzing, and searching compared to other tools."
"Splunk allows us to find insights that we were not able to with traditional BI tools using ETL​. It allows us to dig into raw events."
"This is a product that I recommend for anybody who wants and advanced SIEM solutions."
"I like the ease of setting up dashboards on Splunk. They're easy to create, manage, alter, and share. You can fine-tune them any way you see fit."
"You can use it to gather syslog messages from anything."
"Aggregation searches have reduced time and difficulty of identifying trends and conditions which need to reviewed."
"The product is adept at log mining."
"It's standardized and easy to use, so you don't have to have a lot of top-tier analysts to do the same job."
 

Cons

"​It needs to have better reporting. ​"
"​It was very complex. There was poor native correlation. ​"
"DMC should be a little more intuitive with better dashboarding. Seeing the cause of data flow can be tough to track down."
"Our customers often complain that the price of Splunk is too high."
"My experience with Splunk Enterprise Security has been very good, although I encounter a minor issue with time limit exit errors when filtering data over longer durations."
"I've ever used it, just studied it."
"One thing that I probably dislike the most about the Splunk product is their support."
"We'd like to see a more seamless cloud-based integration."
"In my opinion, it is too expensive for our projects."
"Data retention can be better. If we want to look at the data for five months or six months, that is not available to us. We only have a history of 20 or 30 days. After that, the information gets lost. That is a drawback."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Do a PoC. Make it detailed so it can help later."
"Free Splunk license for PoCs on personal machines and the ability to scale the PoC to an enterprise level app."
"The licensing is good, but the pricing absolutely needs some work. It is very high."
"The pricing of Splunk Enterprise Security is high."
"I've heard Splunk is often preferred over other options, but the cost can be prohibitive for smaller organizations."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is affordable."
"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."
"I am not personally involved with the pricing of the solution."
"Pricing is probably its weakest spot. As compared to some competitors, Splunk is really expensive."
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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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Financial Services Firm
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Manufacturing Company
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Computer Software Company
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Construction Company
7%
 

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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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