Splunk Log Observer vs. SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA)

Great for organizations that need to centralize different types of logging across integration, qa, sandbox and production environments. Would be less impactful for organizations that don't have complex logging needs.

Some of equipment does not support correct monitoring of particular errors via standard SNMP requests (example - Juniper SRX licenses expiration). In this case getting and analyzing syslogs as well as creating event-based alerts/notifications brings great relief of a network administrator life! The second case - is a simple analyzing firewall log events as SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA) can keep logs for a longer time than an equipment built-in tool.

Incentivized

• Providing in-depth insights
• A related content feature which really helps us to figure out which service is breaking the infrastructure.
• The Log explorer which helps us to explore the entire log and pin point the errors/issues.
• Fast and powerful log investigation

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• Event based custom alarms
• Useful search filters
• Real-time streaming

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• Integrating the system with Slack channels
• Saving the logs in different cloud provider
• Viewing the logs at more fine grained level based on user roles and permissions

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• Network management
• Server infrastructure management

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I'm a Splunk specialist, and I'm involved in its use and improvement.

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It gives access to data features for every level of users: from managers and executives to Analysts, each one with the correct level of observation and analysis.

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Splunk support is very quick and efficient. Pre-sale specialists are very skilled and available.

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Follow a training before starting.

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I had not considered other products because Splunk Log Observer was in use in my company before I started working there.

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Based on my personal experience SolorWinds Log Analyzer is the best product on the market. Splunk Enterprise is the other system we use for monitoring but it's more complicated and requires extra skills Moreover Solarwinds Support Team response fast to any issues

Incentivized

• Significantly reduced the MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery), which in turn has improved the end-user experience tremendously.
• Meets compliance requirements of security policies, audit, regulation, and forensics.
• Helps us to track/manage the resource usage on our cloud instances which has a direct implication on the recurring cost.

Incentivized

• Decrease issue reaction time
• Simplify an issue root cause reporting

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