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Monte Carlo vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

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

Monte Carlo
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Data Observability (1st)
Splunk Observability Cloud
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (11th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (9th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th), Container Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Monte Carlo and Splunk Observability Cloud aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Monte Carlo is designed for Data Observability and holds a mindshare of 33.6%, down 43.2% compared to last year.
Splunk Observability Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.5% since last year.
Data Observability
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

PR
Provides centralized data observability features and has an easy-to-use user interface.
The product's initial setup is in a daily improvement stage, deploying new plugins for upstream and downstream resources. It takes 25 minutes to complete. The process involves integrating with third-party services for Single Sign-On (SSO). It requires only one executive for maintenance as it has easy-to-use navigation and user interface.
Lakshmi Padaga - PeerSpot reviewer
Collaborates performance metrics with log data to pinpoint the exact cause of issues and offers error detection
Splunk APM is a robust tool with many capabilities. There are always areas for potential improvement to enhance its functionality and user experience. For Splunk APM, there could be simplified navigation, like streamlining the user interface to make navigation more intuitive for our users, especially those new to APM, which can enhance usability. We can provide more customization options for dashboards and visualizations to help users tailor the platform to their specific needs. There could be more integration capabilities with a wider range of third-party tools and platforms would also be beneficial. By focusing on these areas, Splunk APM can enhance its value proposition, improve user satisfaction, and better meet the evolving needs of organizations monitoring their application performance.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams."
"The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs."
"The most valuable thing that we have seen within our group is the ability to ingest all this raw data and have it organized in a certain way so that different groups can get effective alerting from this massive amount of raw data that is out there."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"I have primarily used it to go back into the past and understand why something happened. It provides enough information to do research and figure things out."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the data integration."
"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."
"It can monitor, get the data, and then report on the data."
"Splunk has drawn our attention to how the network is running. If there are alarms on things that are not functioning, it gives us early warning on problems that could arise."
 

Cons

"For anomaly detection, the product provides only the last three weeks of data, while some competitors can analyze a more extended data history."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"They need more EDR functionalities."
"The deployment can be quite complex."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"A wide variety of logging makes log onboarding difficult."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"The security could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product has moderate pricing."
"Splunk APM is expensive."
"Splunk has been fairly expensive, but it has been predictable."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable."
"I am not in that circle, but we are currently licensing based on our queries. That is working out for us. Previously, it was by volume of data, and now, we can store as much data as we want."
"The product is a bit expensive considering the competition but the company may negotiate the price."
"The solution's pricing is costly."
"This is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Retailer
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Monte Carlo?
It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams.
What needs improvement with Monte Carlo?
For anomaly detection, the product provides only the last three weeks of data, while some competitors can analyze a more extended data history. This feature needs improvement. Its price could be a ...
What do you like most about SignalFx?
The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.
What needs improvement with SignalFx?
There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available. We sometimes encountered issues in setting up alerts. The custom detector could be m...
What is your primary use case for SignalFx?
The main purpose of using Splunk APM is to optimize our application. We use Splunk APM primarily to understand how the application works, how it uses resources, and its response time in connection ...
 

Also Known As

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
 

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Sample Customers

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Sunrun, Yelp, Onshape, Tapjoy, Symphony Commerce, Chairish, Clever, Grovo, Bazaar Voice, Zenefits, Avalara