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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Splunk Enterprise Security

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASplunk Enterprise Security is an analytics-driven SIEM that helps to combat threats with actionable intelligence and advanced analytics at scale.N/A

    Sumo Logic

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASumo Logic is a log management offering from the San Francisco based company of the same name.

    $3

    Per GB Logs

    Pricing
    Splunk Enterprise SecuritySumo Logic
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $3.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise
    $4.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Security
    $4.25
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Suite
    $4.75
    Per GB Logs
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Splunk Enterprise SecuritySumo Logic
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Splunk Enterprise SecuritySumo Logic
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Splunk Enterprise Security
    As Sumo Logic and QRadar are the same SIEM Tool, the reason for selecting Splunk Enterprise Security above those was Splunk Enterprise Security is more handy than these two. The SPL query we write to get more effective results to create Alerts, Reports, and Dashboards are more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Enterprise Security
    Sumo Logic is also one of the best tools in the market nowadays. It is very similar to Splunk from a writing-search processing query and functionality point of view. Sumo Logic is not as customizable as Splunk. And with Qualys Cloud Platform, we can scan our assets and web …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Enterprise Security
    Splunk does not hide its correlation and analytics logic from users as much as other solutions in the same space. While some features are harder to access the underlying information is all accessible and tunable. This gives Splunk an edge over other solutions that lock the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Enterprise Security
    Apart from ES I have used Dynatrace and Qradar SIEM tool to work on security findings in organization where in Dynatrace with the help of collector agent we can monitor proper host data and it can be further classified in host process, memory usage, cpu usage etc as per Qradar …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Enterprise Security
    Splunk offers centralized visibility across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, which is absent in the case of Loggly. Splunk also offers robust and comprehensive features with advanced capabilities
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Enterprise Security
    In my experience with Splunk Enterprise Security, the SIEM is far superior to my experience with Alienvault or Security Onion. Splunk Enterprise Security is FAR more stable, extensible, functional, easy to set up, and easier to use than either of these tools, so much so that I …
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    Sumo Logic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    109 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    103 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    90 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Splunk Enterprise SecuritySumo Logic
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Splunk Enterprise Security and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    8.4
    107 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Sumo Logic
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized event and log data collection7.1105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Correlation8.9104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management8.9105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility7.9106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools8.9101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces9.8107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection7.9101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data integration/API management7.9103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining8.899 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds7.9100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation7.992 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management8.9100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching8.0106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Splunk Enterprise SecuritySumo Logic
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Splunk Enterprise SecuritySumo Logic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (109 ratings)
    9.7
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.7
    (98 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Splunk Enterprise SecuritySumo Logic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Based on my experience, Splunk is a strong git for some environments and a poor match for others. The distinction is primarily based on infrastructure complexity and budget. It's perfect for large enterprises with a mix of on-prem/cloud infrastructure. It's not a perfect match for small teams with restricted resources.
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    Sumo Logic
    SumoLogic is a fantastic log aggregator and analysis tool, a fine alternative to Splunk. Searching is powerful and mostly intuitive and results come fast. If you have application logs in clusters or Kubernetes pods that lose their logs every time they're restarted, Sumo is the solution for you
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Writes Powerful Queries: The queries that can be written using the Splunk Query Language are very powerful and highly customizable to meet every need. Ex: Writing queries to search the intersection of two different sources like Network and Endpoint Logs.
    • Offers Dashboard Abilities: Helps build complex panels for Dashboards in addition to providing several out-of-the-box panels. Ex: creating panels to calculate the performance of analysts in a given timezone.
    • Helpful Search Aids: It helps to set up complex custom alerts very easily. The interesting fields section is very helpful while threat hunting. Ex: It shows all the users and the frequency of each in a failed login event. The user list on the interesting fields is useful to look for suspicious logins.
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    Sumo Logic
    • Sumo Logic allowed for our InfoSec team to ingest logs from our CDN directly, in real-time, instead of massive compressed archives that were sent every two-hours (the only alternative at the time). Sumo Logic had an app for these logs, that allowed us to easily get an immediate payoff from the data, with canned dashboard and saved searches.
    • Sumo Logic has a fairly extensive REST API when it comes to log sources, source configurations, dashboard data, searches, etc. Their wiki for the API is usually kept up to date.
    • Sumo Logic, during the period of time I had used their product, had added the ability to configure agents via configuration files. This allowed customers to configure their endpoints, and modify the endpoints, with configuration management tools like Chef / Puppet / Salt. Beforehand, the only option was to always make changes either via the web portal or REST API.
    • The solutions engineers were extremely helpful, and easily reachable when issues would occur.
    • Users at our company found it easy to get started, working on new dashboards, scheduled searches, and alerting. The alerting worked well with our third-party paging tool.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Improved User Interface Customization: While the interface is generally intuitive, providing more options for users to customize their dashboards and views would enhance the overall user experience. Tailoring the interface to specific roles or use cases could be a valuable addition.
    • Simplified Alert Management: Streamlining the process of managing alerts, such as grouping or categorizing them based on severity or type, would make it easier for security teams to prioritize and respond to incidents effectively.
    • Expanded Threat Intelligence Feeds: Increasing the variety and sources of threat intelligence feeds available within ES would provide a broader context for identifying and mitigating emerging threats, ensuring a more comprehensive defense against evolving attack vectors.
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    Sumo Logic
    • I like the help center, but I think if it had more GUI tools, it could help new users.
    • Pulling out data is sometimes hard to read, (Maybe if I knew how to export data better, this would not be an issue for me).
    • I would like better know-how on how to create reports that will help our business.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    We are very happy with Splunk and would advise anyone to take a serious look at it. It might look pricey but the rewards Splunk offers seem endless.
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    Sumo Logic
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Maintaining hundreds or even 1000+ SOC use cases is really difficult, considering that the Data sources may not always send the data. A module that detects data freshness issues and detect data format changes would be a great help. the main challenge today using Splunk Enterprise Security is making sure that the detection rules are still working properly given all the changes that occur in data source applications. Also, maintaining the data collects on tens of thousands of servers and more than 100k workstations is a real company IT challenge: the splunkbase forwarder may not support old OS anymore, while these are the most important to monitor. Moving to the Open Telemetry collector has become essential so that only 1 agent is required for both SIEM and application observability.
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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic is very powerful but definitely requires some configuration work to get the most out of it. You can get a certification related to this, but it is definitely not something you can just throw together.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    I don't think I've ever seen Splunk ES go fully offline or have any downtime greater than a few minutes on rare occasions.
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    Sumo Logic
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    Performance
    Cisco
    It takes a long time for items to load if you are just generally searching through logs. It is best to use the data models which load faster but can be strange in terms of what is coming from which logs where. Yes, you can look it up, but this also requires familiarity with where things are and how to look them up.
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    Sumo Logic
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    It's good when it's responsive, but I've had times where I had to wait quite a while for a response. But these are typically the exceptions rather than the rule. When you do get a response it is always well-informed and appropriate. I would say they've been trending better over time with this.
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    Sumo Logic
    I would give this rating because I attended a free Sumo Logic training at a WeWork in Chicago. I found the training very useful, and I learned a lot of features that I was not aware of before I went to the training. I like the idea that SumoLogic provides free training seminars. I am certified in level1, and I plan on certifying to level2.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    I experienced only on-line training, but the trainers were very professional and competent. Maybe it could be more useful if they also have an experience in projects because sometimes they didn't have a real project experience to communicate to the students. Anyway, it was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself, aven if I have more than 10 years of Splunk activity experience.
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    Sumo Logic
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    It was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself. The only problem was that, when I worked with the Splunk Professional Services, I found some difference between the training contents and the information from PS. In addition is required a long experience on Splunk Enterprise for the data ingestion part, in other words I'm able to work with ES because I'm worling on Splunk since 11 years, otherwise I'd some problem.
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    Sumo Logic
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    It's a fantatic product and it was very useful the presence of Splunk Professional Services for the Design Phase and the final Health Check.
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    Sumo Logic
    I was satisfied with the implementation, as at the time, it was the best way to implement the product with the available feature sets in Sumo Logic. User creation and management became more of an issue during continued use, instead of it being an issue related to deploying the product in our environment.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Splunk enterprise is the only solution that we’ve been able to identify that provides risk based alerting, which allows our SOC to reduce analyst fatigue which would be a huge problem without it. Before RBA, there were thousands of alerts a day and it was impossible to review all of them
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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic works very well out of the gate. For a small business it has given us what we need. I worked at a larger company previously, and we produced so many logs we had to create a custom logging service to handle them all. Cost and availability are big issues when deciding between the different services, whether self maintained and hosted, or provided by another company.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    for my exterience, unit pricing and billing frequency are correct. As I already said, I hint to have more discount flexibility, expecially with new customers, because there are competitors less expensive and very aggressive that are dangerous. In addition the possibility to don't pay the license for the development period could be a very interesting feature for the final customers.
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    Sumo Logic
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    - 8 out of 10 and took 2 for the data pipeline and administration part. Even if you'd like to improve yourself or your team, you have to pay a lot of money and it could be more than GIAC education + cert. - Normalization for Data models and CPU-based searches can be a problem sometimes.
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    Sumo Logic
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
    I had a fantastic experience with Splunk Professional Services: they worked with us in our last SON project (a SOC migration for a very large customer) and helped to build a multi tenent environment even if ES isn't a multi tenant platform. Th Splunk PS was a very professional and competent people, he is italian and was able to speak with our italian customers.
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    Sumo Logic
    I've assisted several OneLogin customers with partner accounts to Sumo Logic. It has always been pleasant.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • We have a 100% success rate on all our ES implementations due to the amazing documentation and Splunk enablement on the subject.
    • Our Splunk ES business has grown 100% YoY for the last 3 years.
    • In terms of long term management and maintenance, ES has been highly stable and predictable, reducing our overhead on costly services team for ad hoc maintenance work.
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    Sumo Logic
    • I can't think of any negative side effects other than it being SO slow sometimes, but compared to Splunk everything is slow
    • It's SO much cheaper than Splunk that the time it takes to query information is well worth it
    • In the times that we've had Sumo go down or stop logging information, we've found that we'd be absolutely lost without Sumo
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