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ControlUp 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:
 

Customer Service

No sentiment score available
ControlUp's customer service is responsive and knowledgeable, though some users report mixed feelings about initial responsiveness and scalability.
Sentiment score
8.7
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring support is generally effective and professional, though some users experience slower response times and integration challenges.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
6.0
ControlUp needs better integration, enhanced reporting, refined GUI, improved Azure integration, and more features for monitoring and automation.
Sentiment score
5.8
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring needs better tool integration, scalability, affordability, user interface, support, stability, data handling, and external product compatibility.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
ControlUp provides scalable solutions with flexible monitoring, despite cloud advantages and on-premises limitations impacting costs and setup adjustments.
Sentiment score
8.1
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is praised for scalability and flexibility, though some users note high costs with scaling.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
ControlUp offers tiered annual licenses with possible hidden costs, yet users find it competitively priced with extensive features.
Sentiment score
4.5
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is valued for capabilities but considered costly due to data volume-based pricing and annual payments.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
9.1
ControlUp is stable and reliable, though large deployments face challenges; users value responsive support and ongoing improvements.
Sentiment score
8.4
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is highly stable, consistently achieving user ratings of eight to ten, with minor fixable issues.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.6
ControlUp enhances infrastructure management with real-time insights, automation, and AI, improving efficiency and user experience through centralized analysis.
Sentiment score
8.0
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers extensive integration, rapid searches, dynamic dashboards, and real-time issue resolution across diverse infrastructures.
 

Categories and Ranking

ControlUp
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
36th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (5th)
Splunk Infrastructure Monit...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Monitoring Software (10th), Container Management (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of ControlUp is 0.9%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is 0.7%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Richasvi Tripathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Used to monitor several devices, but most reports do not give information of all the devices
We have approximately 10 to 20 feature requests pending on the vendor side. Most reports give information about the top 100 devices, but not all of the devices. In our case, we are monitoring 200000 devices. So, we need details for all those devices, but that is limited to 100, which they have improved to an extent in some reports. I'm thinking of one feature request for ISPs because the dashboard does not provide a detailed list of ISPs, and it provides the wrong list. I feel some firewall issues are blocking that, and the team cannot send that detail. That may be the case. One feature request pending on the vendor side is the data format change. Once you see a detail in the report, it is mentioned in some other format, which is hard to analyze sometimes.
Rodney Riettie - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively
A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers. At the Splunk conference, some of the talks have been about the AI platform and more effective and easier ways to search within Splunk through indexes and other things. These features will help correct some of the things with which we are having a hard time with some of our customers.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Healthcare Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ControlUp Real-time?
Based on my experience, ControlUp is not that expensive. It is a cheap tool because it is deployed to many devices where I work.
What needs improvement with ControlUp Real-time?
We have approximately 10 to 20 feature requests pending on the vendor side. Most reports give information about the top 100 devices, but not all of the devices. In our case, we are monitoring 20000...
What is your primary use case for ControlUp Real-time?
We use the tool to monitor approximately 2,00,000 devices for a client. We check how the devices are doing in terms of hardware and software. We also check their health and alerts every day. If som...
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

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Splunk Insights for Infrastructure
 

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Sample Customers

B/E Aerospace, North Carolina SECU, Vancouver Island Health Authority, University of Florida
Entrust Datacard
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