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JIRA Service Management vs Splunk On-Call comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

JIRA Service Management
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (2nd), IT Service Management (ITSM) (2nd)
Splunk On-Call
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. JIRA Service Management is designed for IT Service Management (ITSM) and holds a mindshare of 11.4%, down 12.0% compared to last year.
Splunk On-Call, on the other hand, focuses on IT Alerting and Incident Management, holds 9.8% mindshare, down 10.4% since last year.
IT Service Management (ITSM)
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

Shambuling-Doni - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 22, 2023
Easy to use, offers good stability and visibility for operational efficiency
We use Jira Service Management (JSM) to manage tickets.  It enables us to track, monitor, and manage user requests from initiation to resolution. We use it for the end-to-end process. We can add comments, and close requests., so our primary use case for JSM is ticketing.  The interface is good and…
Wojtek Witowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 30, 2023
Allows us to create flexible schedules for on-call rotations
For alerts, we could choose to get a text message, app notification, or a phone call. The phone calls were very unusable, because it just read a bunch of numbers, like an ID of the alert. If there was a way to customize the phone call message, that would be great. Later, we would try to read the message, but it wasn't great at reading that. They had some sort of internal chat functionality where if we got an alert, we could write to somebody else and ask them for help, but that was super cumbersome. There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert. Imagine you call the help desk and you say that your computer is broken and then they say, "Actually, the internet is broken, so let us forward your alerts to the network people." And the network people say, "Actually, the electricity is the problem, so let us forward it to the electricity people." Basically, you could send the alert between the support teams inside the company.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Jira lets us customize the workflow to meet our requirements. The email and alert features are also handy."
"Some of the most valuable features are simplicity, ease of configuration, and ease of customization."
"Developing processes is easy and user-friendly."
"The platform is easy to use."
"One of the best features is that I can share tickets with team members, at which point any team member is able to pick one up and work on it."
"JIRA Service Management is a very user-friendly solution."
"Transparency of the system helps both internal and external persons involved."
"It makes the IT department more transparent and helps the employees."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is helpdesk escalation."
"The alert calling feature is the best because notifications are delivered via phone messages."
"The flexible schedule is the most valuable feature. It was very easy to set out a rotation."
"VictorOps has been good enough for us and it's effective for our needs in case of an on-call escalation process."
"Transmogrifier and automatic solution report gives me a report with the solution and the way to solve issues when an error occurred."
 

Cons

"They need to work on the speed of Jira."
"With Jira, we were unable to implement time-based automation in its ticketing system. We would like a feature where we can define tickets based on severity, then tickets are automatically escalated to the next level after a set period of time if they go unanswered."
"If I need a new feature, JIRA requires me to pay for all users when only specific people use that add-on. I should not have to pay for everyone, so this is an area for improvement."
"During the updates, when another version gets released, whatever I am tracking at that time gets lost and I have to type it all over again."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"JIRA Service Management could improve the forms. When you complete the form for the ticket, for example, to have more information given to the team. If they needed this information, you can give it to them. They need to add additional information for a better understanding of the whole picture of the issue or problem."
"JSM's ability to handle large volumes of emails isn't great."
"The initial setup of JIRA Service Management can be complex for new users. There is a lot of configuration."
"There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert."
"At that stage, all our needs are fulfilled, but at the beginning, we had some feature requests and they were deployed during their roadmap."
"Should have more YouTube webinars."
"The third-party configuration tool could be easier to use."
"The solution can be improved by including a wider list of permissions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"On a scale of one to five, with one being really high and five being good, I would rate the price of this solution as a four."
"JIRA Service Desk has different pricing as it is based on agents. On average, the price is about $300 per agent."
"Right now, there are only two of us who are both agents on the help desk and developers. We might be on the free version because we're less than three agents or users. I'm looking at Zephyr tests, which have a $10 a month flat rate, so right now, it is $10 a month. There are lots of add-ons. They do a free version, a standard version, and a premium version. In the last company, we started on $50 a month. By the time I left, we were paying $4,500 a month. That was mainly because we had 100 users on Confluence. I bought an add-on for Jira software for which we had 10 users, and that was $5 per user per month. It was costing me $500 a month, whereas it should only be $50 a month. I don't know if licensing fee has changed. I'd like our whole company to use it, but the big problem is the licensing because the Confluence side is what is really useful, but if I add 30 users to Confluence and then buy an extension for Jira software, I've got to pay for 30 licenses, even though I've only got two users in Jira software. It is the one big disadvantage of cloud software. You always have to pay for the number of seats regardless of which product you are on. This will probably severely limit how many people would use it because I'm not going to start paying $10 per user per month for a Jira software add-on when there are only two people using it."
"Jira Service Management has affordable license fees. It's $12 a month per person."
"Actually in Iran we don't have copyright or intellectual property, so we can use JIRA for free."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price. It's competitively priced."
"The price for JIRA Service Management is reasonable and cheaper than other ITSM solutions, but the licensing model is different, so you cannot compare it with other solutions. Overall, the pricing for the solution is acceptable."
"The price of JIRA Service Management could be reduced."
"The price of the solution could be less expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
27%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about JIRA Service Management?
JIRA Service Management is a very user-friendly solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JIRA Service Management?
The pricing for Jira Service Management is reasonable and not expensive. It feels fair because there are opportunities for discounts through resellers.
What do you like most about VictorOps?
The flexible schedule is the most valuable feature. It was very easy to set out a rotation.
What needs improvement with VictorOps?
For alerts, we could choose to get a text message, app notification, or a phone call. The phone calls were very unusable, because it just read a bunch of numbers, like an ID of the alert. If there ...
What is your primary use case for VictorOps?
We used it for on-call rotations. We used it to send alerts for monitoring. We also used it for escalation, so when we actually had an issue, it would find out who to call and call that person. It'...
 

Also Known As

JIRA Service Desk
VictorOps
 

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