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Panther vs. Splunk

Feature Panther Splunk
Pricing No ingest tax Ballooning per-GB costs
Onboarding to First Alert First alerts fast with OOTB rules Slow, complex setup
Rule management Git-native, Dev & UI Rule sprawl, no Git
Operational Overhead Serverless, zero admin Index juggling, overhead
Coverage at Scale Ingest broadly without punitive cost Cost forces filtering
Log Retention & Storage 12-month retention included Limited, costly retention
Speed of Detection Low-latency, real-time streaming analysis Rearview scheduled queries only

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“We've brought so much more security data into Panther than we were able to on the previous platform.”
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