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NetCrunch vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 6, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

NetCrunch
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
62nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (82nd), Server Monitoring (26th), Log Management (77th)
Splunk Observability Cloud
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (11th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th), Container Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of NetCrunch is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 1.1%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

RP
A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better
The initial setup is fairly easy. Most of it's wizard-based. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to set it up. But if you don't know certain things related to protocols and everything else, it might be difficult. If you know how SNMP works, it'll be fairly simple to set up.
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

"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"It supports proactive management, enhances security, and improves operational efficiency."
"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."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"It has been beneficial for our IT infrastructure."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
 

Cons

"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
"I would like to see an improvement and some innovation in the customer interface."
"The price has room for improvement."
"One thing I recently ran into was that the logs on the server most often get Gzipped after they have been rotated. We found that we were not monitoring some of the things, so we had to go back and pull them in. Right now, it pulls one at a time, untars it, or unzips it, so I cannot look at the entire history. There can be an improvement in that area."
"Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns."
"Once you see the issues related to the scalability part, you need to understand that it is a warning triangle. After seeing the warning triangle, you need to realize that you cannot trust any of the numbers you see in the chart because it is not a complete, full data set."
"They need more EDR functionalities."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Splunk APM is expensive."
"Splunk's infrastructure monitoring costs can be high because our billing is based on data volume measured in terabytes, rather than the number of devices being monitored."
"The product is a bit expensive considering the competition but the company may negotiate the price."
"Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable."
"Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive."
"The pricing is based on several factors, including the scale of deployment."
"Splunk APM is a very cost-efficient solution."
"It appears to be expensive compared to competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Educational Organization
9%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Retailer
8%
Government
7%
 

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Sample Customers

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