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Splunk Enterprise Security vs Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics 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

Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
375
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.2
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 15.4%, down from 26.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics is 2.9%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security15.4%
Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics2.9%
Other81.7%
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

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.
NM
Senior Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Integrating third-party tools for effective data management and reporting
There are challenges with the data collector options in Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics. When I upgrade, the data collector tends to stop working, requiring me to open a case with Veritas. It takes them a long time, usually over a month, to resolve the issue, which is a pain point. I believe improving this aspect would enhance the user experience.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The initial setup is simple, not very complex. Initial deployment takes around 10 to 15 minutes to set up the entire base for Splunk including all three tiers."
"Splunk has a wide range of features that customers use to find and analyze all kinds of logs."
"The biggest advantage I can see in Splunk Enterprise Security is the big data analytics."
"Positive features include replication capabilities, software development kits, and the architecture."
"Splunk's support is better, and its reporting is easier and better."
"It definitely does help with both auditing and as well as regular monitoring. SOC does more monitoring, but ES also gives you other features that are auditing-related. The dashboards are also beneficial."
"Its alerting is most valuable. We have alerts set up in our environment for certain attacks, such as an SQL injection attempt. We have a front-facing server for the website. It is out there, and anybody can access it. When those SQL injection attempts come in, we are able to detect that with the alert."
"It's great for finding anonymous threats."
"The most valuable feature of the product is the insight it provides on the console."
"My experience with the technical support by Veritas is pretty good."
"Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics is technically much simpler than many backups, which provides a competitive advantage."
"The deduplication engine compared to Azure backups is a cost-efficient feature regarding storage."
"The valuable features include getting an overview of the backup status and gaining an understanding of my backup environment."
"The most valuable aspects of Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics are its reporting capabilities and the ability to integrate with third-party tools, such as an ITSM system, for automated checks on live backup statuses."
"The scalability is great. It is one of the best advantages that I find important."
"It's helpful because I can have full visibility of my IT environment."
 

Cons

"Splunk Enterprise Security is great but can have some frustration points. It can sometimes be slower to use."
"I'd say I am happy with the technical support, not elated. They provide great support, but sometimes they don't have the answers that I need."
"One main change I would suggest is related to the incident board: when an incident is resolved, it should not appear on the incident board. It's just a rare occurrence that we open up the incident."
"To improve Splunk Enterprise Security, I would suggest allowing third-party SOAR solutions to work with it."
"Splunk's reporting functionality would benefit from enhanced customization capabilities, allowing users to tailor reports to their specific needs for better data visualization and analysis."
"We will receive alerts only for the administrators and deployment servers, but not for all servers."
"We've sometimes faced issues with upgrades. The incident review dashboard sometimes breaks after updates. When we add a space or something in the description or anywhere in the SQL, the drill-down value may be reset with a blank value. Before rolling out any software, they should test it thoroughly and ensure clients won't have issues with the upgraded version. It should be compatible with all or most of the apps. All major issues must be addressed before rolling out the upgrade."
"The CIM model is the method Splunk uses to normalize data and categorize its important parts, but it is quite complex."
"The quality of technical support has decreased over time with slower response times compared to before."
"NetBackup is not great in disaster recovery (DR) and data center to DR setup, especially in the Cloud environment. Veritas Resiliency Platform is not very handy for cloud-to-cloud, cross-platform replication."
"The process should be made easier."
"The process should be made easier. It is very complicated, and there is more with NetBackup; it is very difficult for me to oversee."
"The technical support from Veritas is disappointing as they take a long time, often over a month or two, to resolve issues."
"The solution should allow users to export data to Tableau."
"During the last issue that occurred due to the counter-strike, we needed recovery instantly for a large number of machines, more than a thousand machines, and Cohesity was the best solution for us."
"NetBackup is not great in disaster recovery (DR) and data center to DR setup, especially in the Cloud environment."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I have no opinion on pricing."
"It is expensive. I used to buy it early on, but then they combined it into a higher-up organization. They buy it for multiple systems now. Last time, I paid around 60K for it. There is just the licensing fee. That's all."
"Personnel costs are saved by not having to involve the domain developers from multiple teams when tracing a problem that spans multiple platforms."
"Although Splunk is an expensive product, it is designed to be utilized across your organization in order to maximize your ROI and lower your TCO."
"It is a bit costly."
"Regarding the product's pricing, I think it has always been difficult to have a conversation with Splunk."
"Splunk Enterprise Security incurs a significant cost because of the amount of data we send, but we are fine with the value we're getting for that price."
"The price of Splunk Enterprise Security is reasonable, falling somewhere in the middle range."
"The product has a fair price."
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Comparison Review

VS
Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 26, 2015
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business109
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise264
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics?
They have changed their licensing model and increased the pricing, which has caused some concern. Additionally, I have to pay for maintenance and support separately.
What needs improvement with Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics?
I would recommend that they implement instant mass recovery because in Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics, it takes a very long time. During the last issue that occurred due to the counter-strike, we n...
What is your primary use case for Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics?
We are using Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics on physical infrastructure. We are not using it for any virtual or cloud infrastructure because we have our internal cloud, so we are not going on any pu...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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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