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Quest InTrust vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Quest InTrust
Ranking in Log Management
61st
Average Rating
8.0
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
7.6
Number of Reviews
308
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Quest InTrust is 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 7.3%, down from 10.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

it_user700032 - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
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

"​I would rate the technical support very well as they are knowledgeable and quick to respond​."
"Capability to expand the functionality through custom code for data inputs, commands, visualization, alerts, and machine learning."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's most valuable features are its stability and the robust Splunk Search Processing Language, allowing extensive customization and analysis capabilities."
"Splunk is user-friendly. We can easily customize the monitoring script."
"Its usability is the best part. It is easy for our developers to use if they want to search their logs, etc."
"The ability to digest any information and then correlate it in accordance with what you need is valuable. The ability to connect to pretty much everything and bring the information in the same format is also valuable. On top of that, we can use their language in order to create and customize the dashboards, correlations, or analytics that we want to incorporate."
"The most valuable feature is that it's very good for log aggregation."
"The correlation searches (properly configured) populate the Incident Management dashboard and provide me a quick birds-eye view of my most important concerns."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
 

Cons

"​It needs to have better reporting. ​"
"​It was very complex. There was poor native correlation. ​"
"For us, the area that Splunk Enterprise Security can improve is performance optimization."
"If it could be made available as a service, this would be much better than as a product."
"It needs integration with a configuration management solution."
"It does not give us permission to implement on-premise so we implement them on the cloud."
"It can be tough to get a hold of somebody in technical support depending on the complexity of the issue."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
"Better directions on search head clusters."
"It would be nice if they had a wizard to construct searches, including more complex searches that include math or statistics."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Do a PoC. Make it detailed so it can help later."
"I have no opinion on pricing."
"I think that most of the log analytics solutions are expensive and I'm not sure if it's worth it."
"It is a bit costly."
"Unlike other security tools, Splunk provides a fixed amount of gigabytes per day, and we are required to pay for any additional usage beyond that limit, in addition to our monthly cost."
"Pricing and licensing is quite expensive. But for the value the product provides, it seems at par in the market."
"Splunk is priced higher than other solutions."
"Splunk is not a cheap solution and the license is billed annually."
"There is an annual license required to use this solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
 

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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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