SolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.
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Splunk Enterprise
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Splunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.
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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Splunk Enterprise
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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Splunk Enterprise
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Splunk Enterprise
Considered Both Products
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
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Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
We use Splunk to also collect Syslog data across our enterprise. However, it is quite different in the correlation process. Splunk is less user-friendly and requires advanced-level training to manage. Solarwinds SEM is a lot easier to manage and set-up.
SEM is much better value proposition due to being priced by node and not by size of the event database. It's also much easier to configure that Splunk and needs much less infrastructure to run. Out of the box SEM beats Splunk on functionality. We looked at many products and …
It came down to price on this one. SolarWinds gave us a great break on
it. For the features that we were looking for, SolarWinds is a great
value for our dollar. As far as features go, we were looking for some
Splunk was a pretty good product but the licensing structure needed a lot of work. They changed the structure three times that I am aware and I still had problems understanding LogRhythm had a lot of issues correlating users to IP addresses, the mappings were frequently wrong …
We found that SolarWinds performed poorly when the Architecture included many large data centers spread across the globe. When evaluating the SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) solution we quickly realized that we needed a distributed architecture with log aggregation to …
Solarwinds LEM lacks a lot of the features and power of their competitors. It also appears, at least at the outside of the competitors, that it is less user friendly and out of the box ready. We ended up with the Solarwinds solution because of budgetary constraints and …