Stop paying $1M+ / year
to search your own logs.
Splunk was built for IT operations — not for modern threat detection. DKTrace replaces your entire Splunk stack at a fraction of the cost, with detection, response, and compliance baked in from day one.
Why teams leave Splunk
Splunk charges per GB indexed. One DDoS event, one compliance audit — ingest spikes and your quarterly bill explodes. Customers routinely hit 2–4× budget overruns.
Average Splunk deployments take 12–24 weeks. Add 6 months of tuning to reduce false-positive noise to an acceptable level. Your team is billing hours, not blocking threats.
Base Splunk only logs and searches. SOAR, UBA, MLTK, Threat Intelligence — every capability that makes a SIEM useful is a separate SKU and a separate contract negotiation.
Splunk Cloud has no true air-gap deployment. The on-prem option (Enterprise) still requires cloud licence servers and phone-home telemetry — a non-starter for regulated and government environments.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Splunk Enterprise | DKTrace |
|---|---|---|
| Ingestion pricing model | $2.00–$4.50 / GB | $0.12 / GB |
| Typical 500 GB/day annual cost | $365,000 – $820,000 | $21,900 – $31,000 |
| Deployment time | 8 – 24 weeks | 24 – 48 hours |
| Air-gap / sovereign mode | Enterprise Platinum only | Standard on every tier |
| SOAR automation included | Add-on (SOAR Cloud) — extra cost | Included |
| UEBA / insider threat | UBA module — add-on | Included |
| ML threat detection | MLTK — add-on | Included |
| Compliance engine | Manual correlation searches | Pre-built PCI/HIPAA/DORA rules |
| MITRE ATT&CK coverage | Partial — manual mapping | Automated full-matrix coverage |
| Support model | Ticket-based (Premier = $$$) | Dedicated security engineer |
| Data sovereignty | Cloud-first (EU residency = cost) | Full on-prem, your hardware |
| SPL query skill requirement | High — SPL expertise needed | Natural language + GUI |
Migration from Splunk in 4 steps
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