Splunk Enterprise Security Reviews and Pricing

Senior Manager of Network with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 10, 2014

Splunk is great for Syslog capabilites. For normal device management, you can't go wrong with SolarWinds.

I'd go with Splunk for logging. For Syslog capabilities, Splunk wins outright from my experience. It's quick, very customizable, and there are many different modules some specific for vendors and devices. (Cisco Security Suite for one).

If you are really into SolarWinds and want to use them for Syslog then I would go with Kiwi. SolarWinds NPM has a syslog collector but under heavy load (a few hundred devices) it will get bogged down real quick in my experience.

If you are looking for normal device management then NPM, NCM, NTA are the way to go. You can't go wrong with SolarWinds.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user167895Project Manager and consultant enterprise IT tooling at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

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Jun 10, 2018

Kiwi syslog for SolarWinds must be seen as a patch for SolarWinds Orion NPM. SolarWinds will release a LOG management module for the Orion NPM platform but this product is in an early state of log collecting, searching and filtering. Splunk can be a good tactical solution to filter out and forward important events to SolarWinds Orion NPM

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it_user121728

Head of Service Integrity with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 5, 2014

It can probably do anything if you tweak it enough but it's not cheap.

Splunk is really good at log parsing events over time. It is quick to drill in and analyze and it is quick to build a presentation layer and automate reporting. I love it for problem analysis and event management however it is not a capacity management tool.

It can be a cm tool but not a good tool for projections etc. There are many tools that claim to be cm tools but they are usually expensive and miss the basic day to day challenges of capacity management. Eg: excluding backups from day peaks, removing outliers, forward trending, accepting data from any source. Start by getting your key data extracted from reliable sources and other tools.

The charting and presentation layer is impressive and quick. It can probably do anything if you tweak it enough. I would call it a very handy tool but probably not the tool. It is not that cheap either. I have used it personally to analyze big data as well as creating knowledge from some ordinary logging. I then created some pretty cool dashboards but they were more operational dashboards.

I don't think we could afford it as a capacity tool but we can use the data it simplified.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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Technical Architect, Cloud Operations at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jun 6, 2021

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Stable, good integrations, and works well

Pros and Cons

"It has quite extensive support in terms of integration, and if you want to do anything, there are tools for that."

"Its reporting can be improved. That's the only complaint I have heard. I don't need the reporting part, but I know that other people in the organization need it."
"Its reporting can be improved."

What is most valuable?

I am just a user, and from a user's perspective, it does the job.

It has quite extensive support in terms of integration. If you want to do anything, there are tools for that.

What needs improvement?

Its reporting can be improved. That's the only complaint I have heard. I don't need the reporting part, but I know that other people in the organization need it.

In terms of new features, I got everything that I needed from the tool. If they want to expand the capabilities to different things, they can cover topics besides log aggregation, etc.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for two years. I am not using it on a daily basis.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable. We don't seem to have any problems related to bugs. We are very happy with it.

What about the implementation team?

We have our own internal team for its maintenance.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution. If you are a technical person, it does what you need. If you are not a technical person and you require graphs, that's a different story.

I would rate Splunk a ten out of ten because I have no problems with it.