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Mezmo vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Mezmo
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (74th), Log Management (56th), Observability Pipeline Software (8th)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
89
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (2nd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Mezmo is designed for Observability Pipeline Software and holds a mindshare of 3.4%, up 1.8% compared to last year.
Splunk Cloud Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.9% since last year.
Observability Pipeline Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Mezmo3.4%
Cribl36.6%
Onum11.3%
Other48.7%
Observability Pipeline Software
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.0%
Tableau Enterprise10.1%
Qlik Sense4.9%
Other84.0%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

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President and Founder at STILLWATER SUPERCOMPUTING INC
It consolidates all logs into one place and provides required features and functionalities
Every once in a while, our IBM cloud operational implementation gets behind. Sometimes, when we have a customer event, we do not get access to the latest logs for about 30 minutes, particularly for the sites that are heavily utilized. This is clearly not good. It is impossible to do RCA when you can't look at the logs that pertain to the time period in which the event occurred. It could be more of an operational problem than a feature problem. I don't have visibility about whether it is a LogDNA issue or just an operational issue.
reviewer2805510 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Unified log analytics has transformed security monitoring and cuts breach detection to minutes
Splunk Cloud Platform has areas for improvement, including the fact that it is obviously an enterprise tool and can be expensive, which is the biggest complaint I have noted. Costs can rise due to high data ingestion and long retention periods, along with a complex licensing structure that makes pricing difficult to predict as usage grows, especially since more systems send logs. There are also performance concerns at scale where users have reported slower searches and expensive long-term storage needs, particularly in multi-terabyte environments. Additionally, operational complexity exists as enterprises still need to do data onboarding, create dashboards, handle retention policies, access control, and performance tuning. These are the three key areas of improvement I have identified.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"LogDNA consolidates all logs into one place, which is super valuable."
"We haven't had anything yet that we couldn't do through LogDNA."
"The solution aggregates all event streams, so that if there are any issues, it's all in the same interface."
"With LogDNA, which brings all the logs together in an interleaved stream, it allows us to take a transaction and relate it to other contextual events making the gathering of evidence for auditors and our internal RCA much more productive."
"For my current requirements, the tool theme seems to be meeting my requirements, from a cost and requirements perspective."
"Splunk is a very user-friendly tool and it's very extensive compared to other tools."
"The log search capabilities are very good."
"Splunk Cloud has helped us to be able to focus on getting more information out of our data."
"The visualization feature in Splunk Cloud Platform is a pretty good feature because I did not need to go to any other vendors, for example, any.run or VirusTotal."
"I appreciate the expansion capability of Splunk Cloud Platform, where we can forward any kind of data to the cloud endpoint they provide with no need for maintenance or infrastructure management because they keep the environment very stable and handle any issues through support cases."
"The best features of Splunk Cloud Platform include its powerful analytics and intuitive user interface, and I particularly appreciate how it simplifies complex data operations."
"Splunk reduced our mean time to resolve by 30%. If an application starts misbehaving, we send logs to Splunk and check to see what's going on and see what's happening."
 

Cons

"Scalability could be improved; we are using it through the IBM cloud deployment and on some of the data centers that are very heavily used, there is a significant lag in the event stream, sometimes 10, 15 minutes behind, which makes the RCA impossible."
"No ability to encapsulate a query or a filter, and communicate or share that among the team."
"Every once in a while, our IBM cloud operational implementation gets behind. Sometimes, when we have a customer event, we do not get access to the latest logs for about 30 minutes, particularly for the sites that are heavily utilized. This is clearly not good. It is impossible to RCA when you can't look at the logs that pertain to the time period in which the event occurred. It could be more of an operational problem than a feature problem. I don't have visibility about whether it is a LogDNA issue or just an operational issue."
"The pricing model makes the product costly."
"We're interested in learning more about the new AI features, especially the natural language to SPL conversion."
"The only disadvantage of Splunk Cloud compared to Splunk Enterprise Security is that you only have two options for long-term storage: AWS S3 Buckets and GCP."
"They can streamline the process of creating custom apps."
"There is something that they say will be improved, and I am still waiting for it."
"There has been a bit of return on investment with the time savings, but because of the licensing, we have broken even."
"However, there is one issue: when our storage limit is crossed, they directly charge higher."
"The biggest downside about Splunk Cloud Platform for me is the cost."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
"The certifications are costly."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is more expensive than some of its competitors, but it offers a wider range of features."
"The pricing was negotiated through Trustwave and for our first contract in three years, we got a good deal."
"I do not personally deal with that side, but from discussions, I know that it is one of the more expensive tools. I do not have anything to compare it with."
"The cost makes more sense for organizations that have a large amount of data ranges."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is an expensive solution."
"The licensing is based on the amount of data that we send to the cloud on a daily basis."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Transportation Company
18%
Construction Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise55
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
I don't know much about the pricing of Splunk Cloud Platform, but I know that it is very less as compared to what we thought to manage this platform. It is very less, but I don't know the exact num...
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
The dislike about Splunk Cloud Platform is the learning resources and the learning materials that they have. In the starting of my phase with Splunk Cloud Platform, I was very new to this, and I wa...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
The main use case is for logs monitoring to get a clear vision about all the products and all the services that we have. We are giving multiple APIs to multiple platforms, and we have multiple serv...
 

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