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Mezmo vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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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

Mezmo
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (75th), Log Management (57th), Observability Pipeline Software (7th)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
71
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (3rd), 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 3.1%, down 3.3% compared to last year.
Splunk Cloud Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.7% since last year.
Observability Pipeline Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Mezmo3.1%
Cribl39.4%
Onum12.0%
Other45.5%
Observability Pipeline Software
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.0%
Tableau Enterprise9.6%
Qlik Sense4.8%
Other84.6%
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.
Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at Cognizant
Centralized logs have transformed payment issue troubleshooting and now streamline incident resolution
Splunk Cloud Platform holds only three months' worth of data. If you try to search for more than three months or prior to three months, it wouldn't store the values because the data stores a large number of data. I believe that's the limit for us. I believe having flexible memory would ease us because whenever we face an incident, if we want to look for this occurrence or root cause, if it is prior to three months, we wouldn't have proper logs to check. I wish it would take a little less time and not search through unnecessary things. Of course, querying depends on the developer's knowledge, but storage is also an issue because I feel memory is not flexible enough. If we try to increase our memory, it will charge us a considerable amount of money.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"We haven't had anything yet that we couldn't do through LogDNA."
"LogDNA consolidates all logs into one place, which is super valuable."
"The solution aggregates all event streams, so that if there are any issues, it's all in the same interface."
"I like the fact that we do not have to maintain all the cloud infrastructure. That is probably the main thing about the Splunk Cloud Platform."
"I can trace an event back to its root cause. I can find the root cause instead of just looking at the symptoms across different things."
"Their promise to users is scalability and availability."
"For my current requirements, the tool theme seems to be meeting my requirements, from a cost and requirements perspective."
"Splunk Cloud Platform has positively impacted our organization by achieving 42 to 45% faster detection, threat detection, and response using real-time correlation and automation."
"Splunk Cloud has helped us to be able to focus on getting more information out of our data."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's most valuable features are enterprise security and ticketing integration."
"Index manager is most valuable because we do not have to bother about internal storage. It is all managed by the Splunk team."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"No ability to encapsulate a query or a filter, and communicate or share that among the team."
"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."
"The pricing model makes the product costly."
"Although there is documentation available, it is really hard for me to find relevant topics on what it is that I'm searching for."
"To be honest, I don't think it's beginner-friendly. It takes time and multiple meetings to actually understand how to create different types of alerts or how to search for them."
"In Splunk Cloud Platform particularly, there is nothing specific that I would like to see improved or enhanced, but the cost is currently very high."
"From my perspective, customization needs to be simplified and I'd like to see a reduction in the cost of the solution."
"I have not come across anything that I would consider missing as such. If anything, sometimes we have dashboards that would not go into the dark mode. It is a minor issue, but it is the only thing that I wish was there. The dark mode would definitely help."
"Splunk Cloud Platform needs to be made more user-friendly because it's not user-friendly."
"They can offer more self-service capability to their customers. Currently, most of the things happen behind the Splunk Cloud Platform. As a customer, I do not have an opportunity to see my platform. If they can offer more self-service to see the health of my endpoints and stack, it would be appreciated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing model makes this an expensive solution."
"It was a good model."
"We were on ingest. We were on-prem, and when we switched to the cloud, we went to an SVC model, and that has been a huge help. We are now able to ingest more data than before."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is an expensive solution."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's pricing is a little on the higher end."
"Currently, we have the ingest-based license. They are offering SVC-based licenses as well, but I am not a fan of SVC-based licensing. At the end of the day, I want to predict my budget and how much I am going to pay to the vendor so that I can plan my yearly budget."
"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
"We were involved in the renewal process, and our organization does reviews of all our partnerships that we have every two to three years to ensure they are meeting our needs, there isn't a better solution out there, and we won't save money by going somewhere else."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
18%
Transportation Company
18%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
13%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise51
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
I don't see any new requirements in terms of improvements for Splunk Cloud Platform at this time. Splunk's dashboarding, reporting, and visualizations are evolving at a larger scale with the new Sp...
 

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