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Chronosphere vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 6, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Chronosphere
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
32nd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (35th), AIOps (14th)
Splunk Observability Cloud
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th), Container Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Chronosphere is 0.3%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 1.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Arvind Pant - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitors pipelines with real-time alerts and good documentation
It isn't very easy. It's not easy for everyone. It would be much easier if there could be a simpler version, like a data number version or an SQL version. It's hard to debug if you don't know the syntax. Also, I saw the Slack alerts feature, which is pretty cool, but I cannot customize my messages on the Slack alerts. It would be great if it were possible to tag people in the alerts. At DoorDash, we have hundreds of pipelines, and if something fails, I want to tag specific people so they can start working on the issue immediately.
Lakshmi Padaga - PeerSpot reviewer
Collaborates performance metrics with log data to pinpoint the exact cause of issues and offers error detection
Splunk APM is a robust tool with many capabilities. There are always areas for potential improvement to enhance its functionality and user experience. For Splunk APM, there could be simplified navigation, like streamlining the user interface to make navigation more intuitive for our users, especially those new to APM, which can enhance usability. We can provide more customization options for dashboards and visualizations to help users tailor the platform to their specific needs. There could be more integration capabilities with a wider range of third-party tools and platforms would also be beneficial. By focusing on these areas, Splunk APM can enhance its value proposition, improve user satisfaction, and better meet the evolving needs of organizations monitoring their application performance.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The alerting features are good"
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature in this solution is the log searching."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The data collection from our VMs, containers, databases, and backend components is valuable."
"The ability to create custom dashboards is one of the best features and that's typically why most people deploy Splunk. Users can create dashboards for just about anything."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provided our customers with visibility into their overall infrastructure."
 

Cons

"It's not easy for everyone."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."
"A wide variety of logging makes log onboarding difficult."
"The deployment can be quite complex."
"The implementation can be more user-friendly."
"There's no standard use case available where you can see the utilization of the number of use cases I have."
"The security could be better."
"The price has room for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price of Slunk APM is less than some of its competitors."
"Splunk's infrastructure monitoring costs can be high because our billing is based on data volume measured in terabytes, rather than the number of devices being monitored."
"Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable."
"I would rate the price of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring as an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."
"It appears to be expensive compared to competitors."
"The solution's pricing is costly."
"This is an expensive solution."
"Splunk APM is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Retailer
13%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Chronosphere?
It isn't very easy. It's not easy for everyone. It would be much easier if there could be a simpler version, like a data number version or an SQL version. It's hard to debug if you don't know the s...
What is your primary use case for Chronosphere?
I work as a data engineer, and we have many streaming pipelines. We use Chronosphere to monitor various metrics, such as how much data our pipeline is processing in each batch, the volume of incomi...
What advice do you have for others considering Chronosphere?
If you want to monitor pipelines and use something like Kafka or any streaming platform, Chronosphere is the best option for monitoring pipelines with real-time alerts. It is loosely coupled with y...
What do you like most about SignalFx?
The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.
What needs improvement with SignalFx?
There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available. We sometimes encountered issues in setting up alerts. The custom detector could be m...
What is your primary use case for SignalFx?
The main purpose of using Splunk APM is to optimize our application. We use Splunk APM primarily to understand how the application works, how it uses resources, and its response time in connection ...
 

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
 

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Sample Customers

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Sunrun, Yelp, Onshape, Tapjoy, Symphony Commerce, Chairish, Clever, Grovo, Bazaar Voice, Zenefits, Avalara
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