Splunk Enterprise Security Licenses (SIEM) – Overview

Splunk Enterprise Security is a premium app that requires a Splunk platform license (Daily Indexing Volume or Infrastructure/vCPU). Your ES license must match the core license type, so you choose either GB/day or vCPU-based licensing and scale cleanly as your data grows.

Key benefits of Splunk Enterprise Security licensing:

• Faster detections via correlation searches and notable events
• Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) to reduce alert fatigue and prioritize real risk
• Mission Control workflows for triage and investigation
• Optional Splunk SOAR integration for automated response and playbooks
• Compliance-ready dashboards and reporting for audit readiness

This flexibility makes Splunk Enterprise Security licenses a critical component for any modern security operations center.

Splunk Enterprise Security Licensing Requirements (What you must have)

To run Splunk Enterprise Security, you need:

1. Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud Platform
2. A core Splunk license (choose ONE model):

• • Daily Indexing Volume (GB/day), or
  • Infrastructure (vCPU)

Important: you can’t mix Volume and Infrastructure licensing, and premium apps like Enterprise Security must match the core license type.

Choose the right license model: Volume vs Infrastructure

Volume-based (GB/day): Are Best for environments where daily ingest is predictable (SOC log pipelines, stable sources). You size by average GB/day plus growth headroom.

Infrastructure-based (vCPU): Best for elastic cloud / hybrid deployments where ingest fluctuates but compute is your stable planning metric. You size by vCPU in your Splunk deployment.

What you get with Splunk ES licensing:

• Correlation searches that generate notable events for investigation
• Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) to reduce noise and focus analysts on high-risk entities
• Mission Control capabilities for triage, collaboration, and incident workflows
• Dashboards, risk scoring, and reporting for operational visibility and compliance

Optional add-ons (when your SOC needs automation)

Splunk SOAR integration to orchestrate response actions and playbooks

Best-fit use cases:

• Central SIEM for SOC detection and response
• Compliance monitoring and audit reporting
• Threat hunting with risk-based prioritization
• Faster triage with Mission Control-style investigation workflows

Splunk Enterprise Security License Part Numbers

Following part numbers represent popular licensing options and add-ons that enhance your Splunk Enterprise Security deployment:

• SPL-ES-TERM-1Y-1GB: 1 Year Term License for 1 GB/day ingestion
• SPL-ES-TERM-3Y-10GB: 3 Year Term License for 10 GB/day ingestion
• SPL-ES-PERM-5GB: Perpetual License for 5 GB/day ingestion
• SPL-ENT-TERM-1Y-100GB: Enterprise Term License for 100 GB/day ingestion
• SPL-ENT-INFRA-TERM-1Y-8VCPU: Infrastructure License for 8 vCPUs
• SPL-UBA-TERM-1Y: User Behavior Analytics 1 Year Term
• SPL-SOAR-TERM-1Y: SOAR 1 Year Term License
• SPL-ES-ADDON-THREATINT: Threat Intelligence Add-on
• SPL-ES-ADDON-RBA: Risk-Based Alerting Add-on
• SPL-ES-ADDON-MISSIONCONTROL: Mission Control Add-on

Splunk Enterprise Security Licenses Best Price and Offers

Tell us your daily ingest (GB/day) or Splunk vCPU footprint, plus your data sources (firewalls, EDR, AD, cloud). We’ll help you select the right Splunk Enterprise Security license tier and term and provide a quote.
For professional advice and customized offers on Splunk Enterprise Security licenses, get in touch with Nethorizon‘s sales team right now. Use affordable solutions that are built to grow with your company to realize the full potential of your security operations.