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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 (77th), Log Management (57th), Observability Pipeline Software (8th)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
89
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 3.4%, up 1.5% compared to last year.
Splunk Cloud Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 1.0% since last year.
Observability Pipeline Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Mezmo3.4%
Cribl36.0%
Onum11.0%
Other49.6%
Observability Pipeline Software
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.0%
Tableau Enterprise9.5%
Qlik Sense4.9%
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.
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

"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."
"The solution aggregates all event streams, so that if there are any issues, it's all in the same interface."
"LogDNA consolidates all logs into one place, which is super valuable."
"We haven't had anything yet that we couldn't do through LogDNA."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's most valuable features are enterprise security and ticketing integration."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is really way ahead, providing everything required."
"We haven't had any limitations or problems connecting to our network devices."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is a very mature solution and an enterprise-grade solution that brings the work we have to do with customers to an enterprise-grade level."
"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."
"Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is a market leader known for its strengths in enterprise-scale log analysis, advanced security monitoring, complex event correlation, and deep search capabilities."
"With Splunk Cloud Platform, you can modify whatever you want; let's say you want to run Python, you want to run any script, you want to monitor any port, you want to monitor data from syslog, whatever you think, you can do it in Splunk Cloud Platform."
 

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."
"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."
"We face occasional downtime issues where when we try to scale up, we face a considerable amount of challenges."
"The Search Processing Language of Splunk Cloud Platform has a steep learning curve."
"Support is the bigger issue when we have a problem. When we need their help, it takes weeks or months to actually get resolved."
"One aspect I dislike about Splunk Cloud Platform is that cost can become high as data ingestion increases."
"Support could be improved."
"However, there is one issue: when our storage limit is crossed, they directly charge higher."
"The queries and pulling out the exact reports is a little challenging."
"For betterment, there is definitely a cost concern."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Splunk Cloud Platform's pricing is a little on the higher end."
"The cost of using Splunk Cloud Platform is high, but the value it provides is worth the investment."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform is expensive."
"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."
"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."
"I am familiar with the pricing and licensing model a little bit. I am not sure about the particulars of the actual price that we have, but I do like the idea of going towards a more CPU-based approach rather than the ingest approach because it allows us the ability to ingest more data if we need it."
"My company has a license for Splunk Cloud Platform. My company also has a license for Splunk Enterprise."
"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
Transportation Company
16%
Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Construction Company
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise56
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
The pricing of Splunk Cloud Platform is a concern for me; it is very costly, making it hard for small to medium vendors to afford. Splunk does not actually save resources for us because it only hel...
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform has room for improvement because managing the architecture for a newcomer, such as an intern, can be hard. They could provide better documentation and videos to help with lear...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
My use case for Splunk Cloud Platform involves working in an organization that provides a daily full dashboard showing daily searches, daily ingestion, daily alerts, and more.
 

Also Known As

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