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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 (78th), Log Management (54th), Observability Pipeline Software (8th)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
118
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (4th), 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 1.2% compared to last year.
Splunk Cloud Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 1.1% mindshare, up 1.0% since last year.
Observability Pipeline Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Mezmo3.9%
Cribl33.7%
BindPlane OP10.2%
Other52.2%
Observability Pipeline Software
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.1%
Tableau Enterprise9.6%
Qlik Sense4.8%
Other84.5%
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.
Anuj Gupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Devops Specialist at Amdocs
Centralized monitoring has reduced incident impact and improves root cause analysis speed
The main area of improvement is alert configuration, especially for new users. Searching through large volumes of logs and optimizing results quickly and troubleshooting complex queries can take time. Better out-of-the-box dashboards should be integrated. Some kind of template should be provided inbuilt so that everyone can use a plug-and-play dashboard approach with integration of multiple data sources. This would provide clear guidance on how queries are optimized through the platform and would improve cost visibility. Simpler data ingestion management would help control operational expense. AI integration should be included for log analysis so that no one has to read or analyze all the data. Some data can be analyzed and provide basic analysis that the end user can then correlate with events to understand what is happening and what exactly occurred in the database end. For documentation, some documents are quite outdated and need improvement with the latest features. User experience should feature a more intuitive interface and simpler navigation. Sometimes I need to identify certain metrics, but I need to go through each dashboard. Instead, I should be able to search for particular metrics by selecting particular infrastructures and retrieve those metrics. This guidance can be integrated into the dashboard. Documentation should be more practical with step-by-step troubleshooting guides showing which dashboard to view to get proper metrics. Real-world examples such as slow queries can be integrated showing how issues are resolved faster, and best practices can be included.

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 has greatly improved my daily operations through enhanced integration with third-party tools."
"As compared to other tools, it is very easy. It is very easy to learn. It also integrates well."
"Flexible search, correlation, dashboards, and alerting help customers turn data from different sources into useful insights across multiple business use cases."
"The most valuable features are reliability and logging. It's in the cloud so it has more stability and easy maintenance."
"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."
"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."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is a data analysis tool that works on big data and unstructured data, and what I appreciated about it is that Splunk data processing is very good, and when I performed search and threat hunting on Splunk, I was very satisfied."
"Alerts are a huge benefit because we can customize them to each business unit's needs."
 

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."
"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."
"Regarding pricing, implementation costs, and licensing of Splunk Cloud Platform, in recent years it has been increasing, and I hope that in the long term it stops increasing, because although I think it's the best tool on the market, it is quite expensive."
"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."
"More guardrails can be implemented, and workload management can be improved in Splunk Cloud Platform."
"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."
"First-time users may struggle with the user interface. When I first used Splunk, I entered my username and password. After that, we get a dashboard on the left side with apps. At the top, you can click the gear icon to view the settings. Within those settings, there's a distributed console option with several settings. It's a bit overwhelming for a beginner. The user knows what they want and can search for it in the search bar. If I see several apps, my first instinct is to scroll down to find the app, or perhaps you will find that search and report. That bugged me when I was learning."
"I have not come across anything that I would consider missing as such. If anything, sometimes we have dashboards that would not go into the dark mode. It is a minor issue, but it is the only thing that I wish was there. The dark mode would definitely help."
"The expensive nature of the product is an area of concern that needs to be considered for improvement."
"Sometimes, the support team may not be fully knowledgeable about the challenge you face, but through their internal escalation structure, they manage to find viable solutions sooner or later or provide updates on when issues will be fixed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
"I would rate the cost an eight out of ten, with ten being the most costly."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's pricing is a little on the higher end."
"It is not that expensive."
"It is a touchy subject because we are locked into it. That goes back to the rehydrating data. We cannot have the retention that we want to store for legal and compliance purposes because that is seven years' worth of data for some of the indexes, so we ship them off into S3 buckets and install them there, at which point they are invisible to Splunk, so we have to rehydrate them, but we cannot rehydrate those pockets into Splunk Cloud. We have to rehydrate them into a self-hosted version of Splunk, which can take days to set up and get going. I would not call Splunk's licensing and pricing predatory, but they have made it very difficult to maintain the independence of your own data."
"I do not personally deal with that side, but from discussions, I know that it is one of the more expensive tools. I do not have anything to compare it with."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform is expensive."
"The pricing model makes this an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
18%
Transportation Company
14%
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise87
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
I think the pricing of Splunk Cloud offers a good quality-price ratio.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
I see room for improvement in the area of reporting, especially the reporting dashboard for Splunk Cloud. I am not expecting any additional features in the future because I have not explored the cu...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
I have not utilized Splunk Cloud's machine learning capabilities as we just started. I have not used Splunk Cloud's integration with third-party applications. I track some false-positive in...
 

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Sample Customers

Instacart, Asics, Lime, Salesforce
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