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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 (74th), Log Management (57th), Observability Pipeline Software (7th)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
66
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 2.2%, down 6.2% compared to last year.
Splunk Cloud Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.6% since last year.
Observability Pipeline Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Mezmo2.2%
Cribl40.7%
DataBahn13.1%
Other43.99999999999999%
Observability Pipeline Software
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.0%
Tableau Enterprise11.0%
Domo5.7%
Other82.3%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

TO
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.
Tejas Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
Splunk Certified Architect at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Unified data monitoring has enabled proactive alerts and predictive analysis for daily operations
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 Splunk Dashboard Studio in place. There were some limitations with the classic dashboard where you had to be aware of different HTML, CSS, and custom JavaScript for better visualizations. That's being migrated towards Splunk Dashboard Studio, which is evolving at a great pace, providing similar functionalities. I have not faced any current challenges regarding Splunk Cloud Platform's limitations. I still think, however, that better configuration and customization options for workload management could be enhanced, but that applies to Splunk Enterprise as well. It's just my understanding and what I foresee, but I'm not sure if it will be a priority right now, as even without workload management, a lot can be done, and the product team might have a different roadmap.

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."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud is the quick setup."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its flexibility and readiness because it's already prebuilt, and everything is click-to-go."
"Splunk is a very user-friendly tool and it's very extensive compared to other tools."
"What I like about Splunk Cloud Platform is the easy reading of the dashboards and finding the data, which brought me the biggest benefits."
"The most valuable features are reliability and logging. It's in the cloud so it has more stability and easy maintenance."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is we don't have to deal with any back-end server maintenance because the solution is cloud-based."
"The data management and instant search features are the most valuable ones for us, as they allow us to instantly retrieve information needed for reports and security compliance."
 

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."
"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."
"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."
"The administration could use improvement. We have to rely on support more often than we're used to."
"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."
"I want to have the ability to process the ingestion before it is sent to the back end and Splunk just announced that the feature is coming, so now it just needs to be released."
"The pricing models should be improved and optimized. Right now, the pricing is a bit too expensive."
"Splunk Cloud could improve by having pre-defined templates. It has very good design views, but there is no predefined template. You have to define your own. If they could add predefined templates for different use cases."
"Some of the implementation is challenging. They're not very proxy-aware."
"The only thing that is missing from Splunk Cloud is the command-line interface."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"My company has a license for Splunk Cloud Platform. My company also has a license for Splunk Enterprise."
"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."
"I would rate the cost an eight out of ten, with ten being the most costly."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is more expensive than some of its competitors, but it offers a wider range of features."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform is expensive."
"There are additional features that you would need to purchase depending on your use case."
"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
Transportation Company
22%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise46
 

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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