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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
65
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

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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.
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."
"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."
"We haven't had anything yet that we couldn't do through LogDNA."
"The most valuable feature for me is the flexibility of being able to send the log to the https endpoint."
"Splunk Cloud has helped us to be able to focus on getting more information out of our data."
"In an enterprise, you need a universal or heavy forwarder. If you don't have that, you need an HSE token or API request call and all the different components. In Splunk Cloud, you just have one instance to search all the data in your index. You don't need to manage it because Splunk handles that."
"The most valuable feature is the SPL because without it we wouldn't be able to correlate and build our use cases and manage what we have for our data inside Splunk."
"It's made searching for data easier. Users like it. We're still in the migration process, but overall, it's a lot easier to use."
"I like the idea of being able to list the IPs that we want without having to open up a ticket to get it done so that way if anything changes we can add a new IP."
"Splunk reduced our mean time to resolve by 30%. If an application starts misbehaving, we send logs to Splunk and check to see what's going on and see what's happening."
"We use Splunk Cloud primarily as a troubleshooting tool, so the most valuable features are the analysis and visualization."
 

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."
"There could be better searches, but mainly, it needs to improve the performance with a vast amount of data. That will make it better and easier to use."
"When it comes to the integrations with the other platforms, there is a little bit of a lag in the observability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The queries and pulling out the exact reports is a little challenging."
"They can streamline the process of creating custom apps."
"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."
"Splunk Cloud's SVC licensing model lacks transparency."
"Extracting meaningful insights beyond essential log data proves challenging due to the product's reliance on manual processes."
"The security connection should have a seamless integration. Other than that, the way we are using it, so far, it seems quite good."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I would rate the cost an eight out of ten, with ten being the most costly."
"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
"My company has a license for Splunk Cloud Platform. My company also has a license for Splunk Enterprise."
"The price is something that people complain about."
"Splunk is a bit more expensive than some solutions, but customers can derive more value from it due to the features it has."
"The pricing was negotiated through Trustwave and for our first contract in three years, we got a good deal."
"As far as the pricing goes, it was what was expected. It is a premium product. There were no surprises there."
"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%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise8
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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