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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 (75th), Log Management (57th), Observability Pipeline Software (7th)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
77
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 Enterprise9.8%
Qlik Sense4.9%
Other84.3%
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.
Vanga Sainithinreddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Log analysis has transformed incident resolution and now boosts daily development productivity
I wish Splunk Cloud Platform is a little more scalable. Whenever we are trying to scale up our storage, currently it stores the logs up to three months. If we want to search for prior logs after three months, we cannot find it because it stores the logs only up to three months. Suppose an incident has come up and changed to a PRB, and that PRB was created more than five or six months back, we will not be able to find the root cause because logs will be deleted automatically after three months. That is one thing I wish it to be scalable. It is not beginner-friendly because all the information or the payload that it sends or shows is kind of concatenated, compressed, and everything. To get used to it will take some time, but you will get used to it with time. It is a best tool, and I would recommend it. I wish Splunk Cloud Platform did not search all of the logs. If you were to search with the primary key of a claim number, it searches with hundreds or millions of similar entities, so it takes a lot of time to search that particular log which I am trying to search. The searching time is a little more. We occasionally face a little bit of server issues, but the customer support is helpful. We lose some time as well in that server downtime.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"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 Splunk search is powerful compared to similar solutions, and we get millions of data points within seconds."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its robustness and ability to ingest logs."
"I like the Cloud monitoring console feature."
"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."
"The ROI with Splunk Cloud Platform is on the higher part, as it has improved the efficiency of our overall organization, increased incident response time to any failure by more than 50 percent, and enhanced the overall visibility of the system, architecture, and infrastructure by consolidating all of our data on one platform."
"The initial setup was straightforward and took approximately 20 minutes."
"Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable."
"Operationally, Splunk Cloud Platform has provided wide observability where we had almost none before, significantly improving our security posture and our ability to defend the organization."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"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."
"Splunk Cloud Platform could improve in how quickly it reacts to users reporting issues."
"Splunk Cloud could improve by having pre-defined templates. It has very good design views, but there is no predefined template."
"Pricing is too high for Splunk Cloud Platform."
"They can streamline the process of creating custom apps."
"The security connection should have a seamless integration. Other than that, the way we are using it, so far, it seems quite good."
"They need to provide more training options."
"The only thing that is missing from Splunk Cloud is the command-line interface."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Splunk Cloud Platform is more expensive than some of its competitors, but it offers a wider range of features."
"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."
"It is not that expensive."
"The cost makes more sense for organizations that have a large amount of data ranges."
"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
"As far as the pricing goes, it was what was expected. It is a premium product. There were no surprises there."
"The licensing is based on the amount of data that we send to the cloud on a daily basis."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's pricing is a little on the higher end."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Transportation Company
18%
Construction Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
12%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise53
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
Related to the pricing factor, I think it is slightly on the costlier side, but I wouldn't know much because I'm not on the management side. My organization divides developers and management, so we...
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform can be improved by having better multi-cloud integration for AWS, Azure, and GCP metrics and events out of the box. It should offer more cost-efficient storage retention optio...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
My main use case for Splunk Cloud Platform is that in our organization, we use it as a centralized multi-tenant log ingestion across cloud and on-premises for all customer environments with index-l...
 

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