Splunk Ranked Number 1 in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Security Information and Event Management Use Cases

Security Olivia Henderson

In addition to Splunk’s recognition as an 11-time Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), we are honored to announce that Splunk has been ranked as the #1 SIEM solution in all three Use Cases for the second consecutive time in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Security Information and Event Management report.

In our opinion, this recognition underscores our ongoing commitment to innovation so that we power the Agentic Security Operations Center (SOC) with our market-leading SIEM solution. We are dedicated to ensuring that our customers can strengthen their digital resilience with increased visibility, more accurate detections, and tightly integrated, automated workflows.

Gartner evaluates different SIEM solutions against a set of critical capabilities, including:

Architecture and Deployment
Data
Collection
Add-on
Components
Content
Compatibility
Integration
Roadmap
User
Interface

Each SIEM solution receives a score across every capability, and every critical capability is weighed in terms of its relative importance for the following Use Cases:

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