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AppInsights vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

AppInsights
Ranking in Data Visualization
23rd
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
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 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 0.4%, 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
Jan 31, 2023
Cost-efficient, good analytics, and stable
I use the solution to monitor our client's web app regarding what specific links are the main causes of common errors The most valuable feature of the solution is analytics. The UI of the solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement. I have been using the solution for almost one…
Raul Lapaz - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 17, 2023
Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized
Splunk Cloud Platform helps us with our security incident response. The cloud security logs are integrated with all the cloud providers. The federated search feature enables us to search between Europe and the US, from one Splunk instance to another, all from a single location. This federated search simplifies how we handle data, making it easy to swiftly search for and manage information. We monitor several cloud environments and find it easy to utilize the Splunk Cloud Platform for this purpose. Each cloud provider offers its own prebuilt dashboard, or customers can create their own. The Splunk Cloud Platform offers excellent visibility into multiple environments. In the past, we utilized hybrid integrations, and they seamlessly worked right out of the box. The reporting functionality provided by the Splunk Cloud Platform resembles that of the on-premise platform. It is readily available without requiring integration or the installation of reporting visualizations. From a security standpoint, the Splunk Cloud Platform provides us with comprehensive visibility into all security logs. This enables us to implement security incident responses with great efficiency. Additionally, we have discovered that internal employees, such as product teams, are utilizing the platform as intended for various other use cases. For instance, it has proven valuable in troubleshooting performance issues and monitoring within Kubernetes. As such, we are leveraging a wide array of use cases within the company. Splunk is a highly mature software that has been in the market for many years, which greatly influenced our decision-making process. Another factor was the user-friendly nature of the latest version, making it easy to initiate. We don't require a large workforce for installing components; it's as simple as out-of-the-box. Consequently, minimal time investment is needed for training. The Splunk Cloud Platform assists us in accessing data to meet critical compliance and privacy regulations. For instance, this is particularly important for regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA. We are utilizing Splunk Cloud with a specific focus on HIPAA compliance, allocating extra attention to this aspect. In the case of GDPR, Splunk offers a range of built-in capabilities. For instance, it allows for log masking. Moreover, there are novel features available in Splunk Cloud, such as ingest actions. This feature is exceptionally useful as it enables us to mask the data before it's ingested into Splunk. Consequently, this approach ensures our adherence to compliance regulations, exemplified by GDPR. The Splunk Cloud Platform has had a significant impact on our organization's security posture. It serves as our primary visibility tool and is the main source of trust for all login activities. Without Splunk, we would lose essential visibility and access to security updates. Currently, Splunk stands as one of the primary tools we utilize due to its utmost importance.

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 ability to correlate data and then present it in a meaningful and valuable way is crucial."
"Splunk Cloud has helped us to be able to focus on getting more information out of our data."
"I can trace an event back to its root cause. I can find the root cause instead of just looking at the symptoms across different things."
"The most valuable features are reliability and logging. It's in the cloud so it has more stability and easy maintenance."
"The most valuable feature for me is the flexibility of being able to send the log to the https endpoint."
"The Splunk search is powerful compared to similar solutions. We get millions of data points within seconds."
"We haven't had any limitations or problems connecting to our network devices."
"I like the Cloud monitoring console feature."
 

Cons

"The UI of the solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"There can be more modules and more integration with other areas in the cloud and on-prem. I am not sure whether it includes network devices and things like that."
"I want to have the ability to process the ingestion before it is sent to the back end and Splunk just announced that the feature is coming, so now it just needs to be released."
"From an enterprise standpoint, we are more limited in terms of what data we can export and how we can present it."
"They need to provide more training options."
"I have not come across anything that I would consider missing as such. If anything, sometimes we have dashboards that would not go into the dark mode. It is a minor issue, but it is the only thing that I wish was there. The dark mode would definitely help."
"Splunk should offer various options for real-time monitoring."
"The dashboards should be easier to customize."
"I would love to be able to manage my own apps."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is cost-efficient and I give it an eight out of ten."
"The certifications are costly."
"It is not that expensive."
"The cost of the Splunk Cloud Platform is high, and in addition to the standard licensing fee, we also have a premium support fee."
"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."
"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."
"The lack of transparency around the SVC licensing makes it difficult to explain the costs to our clients."
"We were involved in the renewal process, and our organization does reviews of all our partnerships that we have every two to three years to ensure they are meeting our needs, there isn't a better solution out there, and we won't save money by going somewhere else."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is more expensive than some of its competitors, but it offers a wider range of features."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
26%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Educational Organization
6%
University
6%
 

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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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