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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."
"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."
"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."
"Overall, Splunk Cloud Platform is cost-efficient for us because we are Splunk partners, and it offers better performance."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its robustness and ability to ingest logs."
"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."
"For my current requirements, the tool theme seems to be meeting my requirements, from a cost and requirements perspective."
"Using Splunk Cloud Platform saves us time because previously we took two to three hours troubleshooting any problem, but now we get to know which particular area of the API is throwing an error and everything."
"Since Splunk Cloud Platform is a fully managed service, there is no need to handle servers, upgrades, or maintenance."
"Not having to maintain any infrastructure is valuable. That frees up a lot of time as well."
 

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."
"The on-premises version of Splunk includes all the integrations, while the Cloud platform lacks certain integrations and is limited in terms of the number of supported apps."
"In my opinion, there is room for improvement, as we used to raise multiple issues via the process, but they pick them up slowly, and the response times are not as prompt as we would like."
"The biggest downside about Splunk Cloud Platform for me is the cost."
"Sometimes, the technical support case persons are not sufficiently technical; they are not technical enough or not understanding the issues."
"Some of the implementation is challenging. They're not very proxy-aware."
"Splunk Cloud Platform could improve in how quickly it reacts to users reporting issues."
"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."
"The expensive nature of the product is an area of concern that needs to be considered for improvement."
 

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."
"It was a good model."
"The licensing costs depend on the state of your environment and the fees are paid on a monthly basis."
"The licensing is based on the amount of data that we send to the cloud on a daily basis."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is more expensive than some of its competitors, but it offers a wider range of features."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is an expensive solution."
"The cost of the Splunk Cloud Platform is high, and in addition to the standard licensing fee, we also have a premium support fee."
"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."
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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
19%
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise56
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
I don't know much about the pricing of Splunk Cloud Platform, but I know that it is very less as compared to what we thought to manage this platform. It is very less, but I don't know the exact num...
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
The dislike about Splunk Cloud Platform is the learning resources and the learning materials that they have. In the starting of my phase with Splunk Cloud Platform, I was very new to this, and I wa...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
The main use case is for logs monitoring to get a clear vision about all the products and all the services that we have. We are giving multiple APIs to multiple platforms, and we have multiple serv...
 

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