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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.7
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring support is generally effective and professional, though some users experience slower response times and integration challenges.
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Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
5.8
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring needs better tool integration, scalability, affordability, user interface, support, stability, data handling, and external product compatibility.
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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is praised for scalability and flexibility, though some users note high costs with scaling.
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Setup Cost

Sentiment score
4.5
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is valued for capabilities but considered costly due to data volume-based pricing and annual payments.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is highly stable, consistently achieving user ratings of eight to ten, with minor fixable issues.
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Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.0
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers extensive integration, rapid searches, dynamic dashboards, and real-time issue resolution across diverse infrastructures.
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Categories and Ranking

Splunk Infrastructure Monit...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
10th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Container Management (9th)
VMware Aria Operations for ...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
42nd
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
32nd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (40th), Container Monitoring (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations for Applications is 1.8%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Monitoring Software
 

Featured Reviews

Rodney Riettie - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively
A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers. At the Splunk conference, some of the talks have been about the AI platform and more effective and easier ways to search within Splunk through indexes and other things. These features will help correct some of the things with which we are having a hard time with some of our customers.
Yves Sandfort - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights
Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more. The other thing for us is that while it is great that we have all these standard metrics, it would be good if we can also more easily define standard metrics to be consumed for our own application. At the moment, for a lot of applications, we have to reinvent the wheel every time. If there was something so that we can build our own packaging of metrics, it would be helpful. In the future, we might be deploying our software to other customers as well. So, they should make it easier to redeploy that. There should be more customizable dashboards. The Wavefront dashboards are very technical and a more business-oriented dashboard design would definitely help.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
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. Till ...
What needs improvement with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
We never had any issues when it comes to the type of use cases we are using it for. We did not need more advancement on it, but I know that, in general, everything can be updated. There are tiny li...
What do you like most about VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?
VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support.
What needs improvement with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?
It's hard to set up Tanzu clusters. It's hard to do a POC. Once you set up a customer's environment, you easily see the problems. The initial setup should be easier and more seamless.
 

Also Known As

Splunk Insights for Infrastructure
Tanzu Observability, Wavefront, Wavefront by VMware, VMware Tanzu Observability
 

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Sample Customers

Entrust Datacard
1. Atlassian 2. Cisco 3. Databricks 4. DigitalOcean 5. Equinix 6. Fidelity Investments 7. Google 8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9. Honeywell 10. IBM 11. Intel 12. JetBlue Airways 13. LinkedIn 14. Lyft 15. Mastercard 16. Microsoft 17. MongoDB 18. Netflix 19. Nvidia 20. Oracle 21. PayPal 22. Pinterest 23. Qualcomm 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Square 29. TMobile 30. Twitter 31. Uber 32. VMware
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