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AppInsights vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

AppInsights
Ranking in Data Visualization
22nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Cloud Platform
Ranking in Data Visualization
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.4
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of AppInsights is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Cloud Platform is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Karen Trinidad - PeerSpot reviewer
Cost-efficient, good analytics, and stable
Since our application is hosted in the cloud, there is no need for installation. I can simply access the portal and navigate to App Insights for easy access. I give the initial setup a ten out of ten. The deployment took approximately 24 hours to complete due to the large amount of data that had to be transferred. We had about fifteen people involved in the configuration, with two main people taking the lead and the rest on standby in case something happened.
Mark Furman - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers real-time threat detection by continuously analyzing incoming logs and correlations
The Splunk Cloud Platform has improved our observability. We can see a lot more information both good and bad, but at least we have the information. It is important that Splunk Cloud Platform has visibility into our cloud-native environments. It comes to observability. And with the visibility, we're able to link, especially with our cloud environment, with Azure the correlations for threat reporting, correlations for account breaches, and correlations for compromised data ex-filtration that's going in and out. Splunk Cloud Platform has improved our mean time to resolution. It stepped down our investigation times. An investigation that used to take ten minutes is now down to five or six minutes per incident. It offers real-time threat detection by continuously analyzing incoming logs and correlations. These trigger pre-defined alerts, and any suspicious activity will be reported within five or six minutes. Splunk Cloud has saved costs through time savings. I can focus that time on other tasks improving productivity. We saw time to value within the first month of implementing the Splunk Cloud Platform. Splunk Unified Platform helps consolidate networking, security, and IT observability tools. We're primarily focusing on the security area and building out the correlations. We haven't moved to the infrastructure side yet. That is something we have on our company roadmap.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is analytics."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud is the quick setup."
"Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily."
"Dashboards and alerting are the most valuable features. The dashboards let us see how the system looks in terms of anomalies, and the alerts trigger us to go and look at what possible problems are happening."
"It has end-to-end visibility into our cloud-native environment, which is pretty important for us. About 80% of our infrastructure is on AWS."
"The most valuable features are reliability and logging. It's in the cloud so it has more stability and easy maintenance."
"It has definitely improved our organization by virtue of reducing the amount of overhead we would have had for those environments. Having to implement, maintain, or even update the existing stuff would have been extremely time-consuming. Splunk Cloud handles all of that for us. So it's definitely been helpful from that perspective. It's allowed them to maintain upgrades for far further than they are. Some of the hosts of that environment were still on version 7 so they could get upgraded feature parity."
"We use Splunk Cloud primarily as a troubleshooting tool, so the most valuable features are the analysis and visualization."
"In my organization, Splunk Cloud Platform has improved the issue revolving around transactions."
 

Cons

"The UI of the solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"Since I work on data collection from external sources and send them into Splunk, I miss its ability to collect that data through REST API applications."
"There is sometimes no documentation or updated documentation available."
"Some of the implementation is challenging. They're not very proxy-aware."
"We're interested in learning more about the new AI features, especially the natural language to SPL conversion."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform dashboard could benefit from some improvements."
"Support could be improved."
"The Splunk interface is on-premises, so we have limited access to Splunk Cloud. Splunk support is not so good on Splunk Cloud. The Splunk side of the Splunk Cloud should also be more customizable. Integrating Splunk UBA, Splunk Phantom, and Splunk Cloud is also a bit difficult."
"When it comes to the integrations with the other platforms, there is a little bit of a lag in the observability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is cost-efficient and I give it an eight out of ten."
"Currently, we have the ingest-based license. They are offering SVC-based licenses as well, but I am not a fan of SVC-based licensing. At the end of the day, I want to predict my budget and how much I am going to pay to the vendor so that I can plan my yearly budget."
"Splunk Cloud Platform fell within our budget so we pulled the trigger and implemented it."
"The cost makes more sense for organizations that have a large amount of data ranges."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is more expensive than some of its competitors, but it offers a wider range of features."
"The cost of the Splunk Cloud Platform is high, and in addition to the standard licensing fee, we also have a premium support fee."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform is expensive."
"We were on ingest. We were on-prem, and when we switched to the cloud, we went to an SVC model, and that has been a huge help. We are now able to ingest more data than before."
"It is a touchy subject because we are locked into it. That goes back to the rehydrating data. We cannot have the retention that we want to store for legal and compliance purposes because that is seven years' worth of data for some of the indexes, so we ship them off into S3 buckets and install them there, at which point they are invisible to Splunk, so we have to rehydrate them, but we cannot rehydrate those pockets into Splunk Cloud. We have to rehydrate them into a self-hosted version of Splunk, which can take days to set up and get going. I would not call Splunk's licensing and pricing predatory, but they have made it very difficult to maintain the independence of your own data."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
27%
Financial Services Firm
13%
University
7%
Educational Organization
5%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AppInsights?
The most valuable feature of the solution is analytics.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppInsights?
The solution is cost-efficient and I give it an eight out of ten.
What needs improvement with AppInsights?
The UI of the solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement.
What do you like most about Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud is affordable, depending on your license. I don't know how much it costs exactly, but my colleague said it depends on your licensing and which features you use.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
First-time users may struggle with the user interface. When I first used Splunk, I entered my username and password. After that, we get a dashboard on the left side with apps. At the top, you can c...
 

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