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Mezmo vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

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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 (77th), Log Management (55th), Observability Pipeline Software (8th)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
114
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (3rd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Mezmo is designed for Observability Pipeline Software and holds a mindshare of 3.9%, up 1.4% compared to last year.
Splunk Cloud Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 1.1% mindshare, down 1.1% since last year.
Observability Pipeline Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Mezmo3.9%
Cribl34.1%
BindPlane OP10.1%
Other51.9%
Observability Pipeline Software
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.1%
Tableau Enterprise9.5%
Qlik Sense4.7%
Other84.7%
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."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's visibility into multiple environments offers excellent monitoring capabilities, whether I am using it in the cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid environments."
"We haven't had any limitations or problems connecting to our network devices."
"Splunk Cloud Platform has impacted my organization positively by capturing all alerts, monitoring the dashboards, and analyzing issues immediately, which has improved efficiency in my company."
"Not having to maintain any infrastructure is valuable. That frees up a lot of time as well."
"Index manager is most valuable because we do not have to bother about internal storage. It is all managed by the Splunk team."
"Splunk Cloud's most valuable features are log aggregations, dashboarding, business management, reporting, and business controls. Additionally, it has awesome indexing and the solution is always improving"
"I have done health checks several times now, and those have been very valuable in getting more information about what is going on in my platform. There are also recommendations on what is going on in my environment."
"The real-time search capability of this product enhances operational decision-making, and it's very convincing."
 

Cons

"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."
"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 on-premises version of Splunk includes all the integrations, while the Cloud platform lacks certain integrations and is limited in terms of the number of supported apps."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is not entirely stable. In the last couple of months, we have experienced issues with instances approaching max resources without alerts, and there have been problems on the AWS side as well, where instances have gone down."
"Some of the Victoria Experience that was rolled out is not yet fully everywhere. The AI assistant is going to be good, but we are on GCP, so I am worried about how fast it is going to get rolled out and if it is going to be nine months late for the GCP customers or not."
"They can streamline the process of creating custom apps."
"Support is the bigger issue when we have a problem. When we need their help, it takes weeks or months to actually get resolved."
"More guardrails can be implemented, and workload management can be improved in Splunk Cloud Platform."
"The initial learning curve should be more personalized for new users who just started using Splunk Cloud Platform."
"Since I work on data collection from external sources and send them into Splunk, I miss its ability to collect that data through REST API applications."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I do not have much idea. We previously used 1 GB at the cost of $600. Both on-prem and cloud licenses have the same price. There is no difference. It did not impact the cost because the costs of the on-prem license and the cloud license are the same. We did not have any issues with that. Overall, its price is reasonable."
"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
"Splunk Cloud Platform fell within our budget so we pulled the trigger and implemented it."
"It was a good model."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform is expensive."
"I do not know what that is anymore. I have not been involved with that for a couple of years, but I know we are paying a lot."
"It is not that expensive."
"The lack of transparency around the SVC licensing makes it difficult to explain the costs to our clients."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
19%
Transportation Company
14%
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise18
Large Enterprise82
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been very good, as we did not face any issues. We're receiving all the needed support from the start.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
More guardrails can be implemented, and workload management can be improved in Splunk Cloud Platform. Ad hoc searches are still being executed with index equal to star, which reveals opportunities ...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform serves as our primary observability solution, focusing on monitoring logs, metrics, and traces for our systems. We primarily use Splunk Cloud Platform for log monitoring by se...
 

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