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Cisco Intersight vs Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

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

Cisco Intersight
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
18th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (12th)
Splunk Infrastructure Monit...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Monitoring Software (11th), Container Management (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Cisco Intersight is 2.3%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is 0.6%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

David Fartouk - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps know whether a solution is deployed correctly, but the automation capabilities are difficult to use
We used the solution's automation capabilities, but it wasn’t easy. It was part of why we took some time to deploy the solution. It didn't give us much value. It wasn't that good. Intersight is a pretty complex solution. It can give you a lot of things, but nothing is simple. The usability must be better.
Nagendra Nekkala. - PeerSpot reviewer
Is easy to use, provides great visibility, and reduces our resolution time
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is easy to use. It helps us quickly analyze how our infrastructure is performing across various services. It helps with proper log management, allowing us to monitor our systems and analyze log data regularly. It also provides security operations capabilities for monitoring system health and ensuring uptime. We noticed these benefits immediately. Our operational efficiency has been increased. It has improved our system health by monitoring the performance of data on servers, virtual machines, and containers, along with overall background processes. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides end-to-end visibility into our cloud-native environment. This is crucial because any data corruption can impact all the information we've deployed. It also aids in log management, offering parameters that extend its functionality as a comprehensive monitoring tool for CPU, memory usage, and network traffic. It has helped reduce our mean time to detect by four hours.Our mean time to resolution has been reduced by two hours. By providing access to all our network parameters, it simplifies log ingestion through streamlined calculations. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides us with faster and more comprehensive insights into our infrastructure, allowing us to focus on critical business initiatives. We saw the time to value immediately after deploying Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Intersight can validate our environment."
"It offers visibility and optimization of workloads, which are very important features for a company."
"Cisco Intersight has valuable features for workflow automation and inventory administration."
"We enjoy having an inside view of all the data centers and all the EdgeX nodes within a single portal rather than going into the EdgeX connections one by one."
"Intersight offers many features that provide great value to companies."
"Our organization uses Cisco Intersight since it helps manage our physical infrastructure."
"The product has good integration."
"Scalable portfolio of services for remote device management, with good cloud integration. It's also easy to set up."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the data integration."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provided our customers with visibility into their overall infrastructure."
"The alerts are the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is log reporting."
"Splunk has drawn our attention to how the network is running. If there are alarms on things that are not functioning, it gives us early warning on problems that could arise."
"The product retains a lot of log data for subsequent analysis."
"The tool's stability is great."
 

Cons

"Cisco Intersight needs some improvement in terms of stability. Hybrid cloud management and proper hyperscaler tie-up are other areas for improvement."
"Technical support from Cisco has been mixed. For complex issues, it's challenging to get the right engineer quickly unless you have a specific contract like CX."
"The solution needs some enhancement in order to build the cluster in two nodes."
"An area for improvement in Cisco Intersight is automation. It needs more automation capabilities. Apart from enhanced automation, I want Cisco Intersight to integrate with third-party monitoring tools in its next release."
"In the future, the solution needs to plan on an extension to cover a broader range of objects since, at present, there are some Cisco devices within the range of Intersight UCS that it can't manage."
"When new features are added, the service becomes full of bugs."
"More products should be made compatible with iWORK, including more software and hardware."
"The unique problem with Cisco Intersight is that it's not supporting some players."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring's data analytics can be improved by including suggestions for various types of continuous monitoring."
"It does not have a user-friendly interface and it is difficult to use."
"A wide variety of logging makes log onboarding difficult."
"The solution's machine learning deployment is hard and should be made user-friendly."
"There is not a lot of support for the tool's on-premises version, especially since everything is on the cloud."
"We never had any issues when it comes to the type of use cases we are using it for. We did not need more advancement on it, but I know that, in general, everything can be updated. There are tiny little tweaks that can be made regardless of whether it looks better or has a different flow to it than it does right now, but it works pretty well for what we use it for."
"The solution's stability is an area that has room for improvement. It needs to provide constant stability to its users."
"There's no standard use case available where you can see the utilization of the number of use cases I have."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cisco Intersight has competitive pricing. On a scale of one to five, my rating for its pricing is four."
"It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees."
"Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either."
"The product is cost-effective."
"You can get a free license for monitoring but need to purchase a license if you need extra control."
"The product is a bit expensive considering the competition but the company may negotiate the price."
"Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The solution's pricing is competitive. I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten. The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is an expensive solution."
"The solution's pricing is costly."
"I would rate the price of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring as an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."
"Splunk has been fairly expensive, but it has been predictable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
40%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Healthcare Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco Intersight?
Intersight can validate our environment.
What needs improvement with Cisco Intersight?
More products should be made compatible with iWORK, including more software and hardware. There is also a need to increase the number of partners.
What is your primary use case for Cisco Intersight?
The most common use case was the HyperFlex deployment in the past. However, with HyperFlex being discontinued, I now focus my efforts on selling Intersight with iWORK Waterlog Optimizer. This is va...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive. Till ...
What needs improvement with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
We never had any issues when it comes to the type of use cases we are using it for. We did not need more advancement on it, but I know that, in general, everything can be updated. There are tiny li...
 

Also Known As

Intersight
Splunk Insights for Infrastructure
 

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