AppFog (discontinued) vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

AppFog (discontinued)

Splunk Observability Cloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AppFog (discontinued)	Score 6.6 out of 10	N/A	AppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.	N/A
Splunk Observability Cloud	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Splunk Observability Cloud aims to enable operational agility and better customer experience through real-time AI-driven streaming analytics allowing accurate alerts in seconds. It is designed to shorten MTTD and MTTR by providing real-time visibility into cloud infrastructure and services.	$15 per month (billed annually) per host

Pricing

AppFog (discontinued)

Splunk Observability Cloud

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Infrastructure: $15
per month (billed annually) per host
App & Infra: $60
per month (billed annually) per host
End-to-End: $75
per month (billed annually) per host

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AppFog (discontinued)	Splunk Observability Cloud
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Pricing

Community Pulse
	AppFog (discontinued)	Splunk Observability Cloud
Considered Both Products	AppFog (discontinued) Verified User Anonymous Chose AppFog (discontinued) Appfog was one of the requirements of our project since it was the fastest growing PAAS provider. Also it was easy to deploy an application with multiple options to choose for the development environment for our application. It was "ALL in ONE." Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AppFog (discontinued) Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a … Incentivized Helpful?	Splunk Observability Cloud AM Allen Monroy cyber systems engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud it could stack up against this version of Splunk because in this instance of having the cloud option as an available use case it furthermore has more use cases and the options for the data to always be readily available will furthermore allows for analysts to review the data in … Incentivized Helpful? Dhaval Bhalgamadiya Devops Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Datadog pushes intom proprietary ecosystem and pricing structure.Compared to self hosted prometheus and grafarna but it gave headache og managing our own monitoring infrastructure at scale.Prometheus is excellent for scraping cluster metrics but it doesnt handle distributed … Incentivized Helpful? UP Udit Parekh DevOps Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud I guess scale is the main factor against grafana and ease of use against amazon elasticsearch service and also i have used signoz and ELK Stack also, but stability Splunk Observability Cloud gives is too good and also it comes with high avability and you have to maintain … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud We initially chose Splunk Observability Cloud because it promised full-stack visibility and tighter integration. The other tools didn't offer this as part of the core package. Their analytics and real-time dashboards looked strong during the demo but it turned out to a lot … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud I selected Splunk Observability Cloud because it focused so much on OTEL standards which will help us in future as OTEL is covering most of the observability standards. And also it has the best Kubernetes observability as I already explained it has several predefined dashboards … Incentivized Helpful? GS Gurpreet Singh Junior Network Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Observability Cloud stood out for its real-time data ingestion, native OpenTelemetry support, and seamless correlation between metrics, traces, and logs, which gave us faster root cause analysis and better end-to-end visibility compared to Grafana setups that required … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Datadog Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud To be honest, Datadog is very similar to Splunk and LogScale to a lesser degree, but it is just as good if you don't need too complex observability. Grafana is still growing and might reach the same level soon. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Tenable Cloud Security and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server Incentivized Helpful? Ruben Martinez Information Systems Security Officer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud It's able to quickly detect and resolve issues across the entire spectrum of deployments including on-premises, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and multicloud Incentivized Helpful? AO Anjali Oza Sr. Software Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud The above applications have their own use cases. Thousand Eyes or Sitescope is used for URL monitoring and Splunk is used for application monitoring. Appdynamics is also used for application monitoring and can monitor the server very well but it lacks when searching in logs … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud It has edge because of our existing logging solutions is Splunk Incentivized Helpful? Brennan Fuller Systems Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk is superior in many ways to these solutions when I'm comes to ingesting, storing, manipulating, and using data, but dynatraces automatic agents do make it much easier to use out of the box. Nagios seems much cheaper but does not provide as much functionality as Splunk. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Because it's very easy to use & detailed and I love the graphics you feel everything under control any issue you can track it immediately Incentivized Helpful? AD Alberto Dominguez Technical PM Chose Splunk Observability Cloud New Relic has more deep into the application using agents. We try to use them in parallel to find errors in the infrastructure. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud I had not considered other products because Splunk Log Observer was in use in my company before I started working there. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud We believe that it's less vulnerable to security aspects as compared to others. Incentivized Helpful? Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk requires less work for data in gestion and parsing. Splunk has more efficient data display features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Sumologic. Incentivized Helpful? Mayank Thirani Senior Software Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Log Observer provides easy setup and ease of admin features and direction of product was better compared to Lightstep Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk is easy to customize and ingest our data. It is far more understandable and secure than other applications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud NA Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud SQL is a great tool for smaller quick checks. When trying to monitor several different environments, applications, APIs, several thousand devices, connections, and technology, it just doesn't stand up to what you need. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has really stood out … Incentivized Helpful? Anuj Rai Performance Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud We are having other monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog and already using their end-user monitoring capability. Most of our customers are looking for agent-free monitoring where they don't want to instrument any agent on their client-side (as it might … Incentivized Helpful? David Williams CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides far superior options for anybody using a complex hybrid multi-cloud environment and allows both your SOC and NOC to work together on the same data while driving their own insights. We found other products are still in the old world view … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

AppFog (discontinued)

Splunk Observability Cloud

Platform-as-a-Service

Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	AppFog (discontinued) 6.5 Ratings 18% below category average	Splunk Observability Cloud - Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scalability	5.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform management overhead	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform access control	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration	6.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Development environment creation	7.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Development environment replication	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Issue recovery	6.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	AppFog (discontinued)	Splunk Observability Cloud
Small Businesses	AWS Lambda Score 8.2 out of 10	Amazon CloudWatch Score 7.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.1 out of 10	ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.1 out of 10	ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	AppFog (discontinued)	Splunk Observability Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	6.6 (0 ratings)	7.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.6 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AppFog (discontinued)	Splunk Observability Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	AppFog is good for academic purposes. It comes in very handy for cloud deployments. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Good for below cases 1. There is a front end and need to correlate data with front end data 2. multiple microservices and need to check the health of each system 3. correlate data from various sources 4. Application performance is a key to be captured 5. application performance is a key metric. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The first one is its Kubernetes container monitoring. I really like this features because as we know how much K8s is vast and to manually monitor each part of the Kubernetes it takes so much time but Splunk Observability Cloud makes it easier. And even once we integrate K8s with Splunk Observability Cloud it gives us some prebuilt dashboards which gives holistic view of our Cluster and its nodes, pods, etc. The dashbaord feature of Splunk Observability Cloud, it gives us full flexibility to customize our dashboard with a wide range of predefined chart types. Now it also supports OTEL, which is a plus point for observability. As now everyone is moving towards Otel and in current market there are only few tools who supports OTEL based integrations, Splunk Observability Cloud is one out of them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools. It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	An indicator for errors on the navigations pane so that we don't have to go through each tab. As we go more and more cloud maybe you guys can implement a pay-as-you-use strategy so that small companies using it not frequently can also afford it. That's it can't think of any and it wont let me skip to next question. Thanks Incentivized CM chirag mhatre Software Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Good: Stable system with low error rate Easy to use for simple use cases Bad: UI is not very clear for complex usage Mobile view (when logged in from phone) is bad No library for .net Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Overall a great tool to have in your toolbox, It is very intuitive and our entire staff uses the tool. It is easy to use and cost is very reasonable. Splunk also has excellent support team and very easy to work with. Every time we had a challenge, support team was able to help us with the end result. Incentivized John Abraham Director of Information Systems - ACOM Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Splunk support is very quick and efficient. Pre-sale specialists are very skilled and available. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Follow a training before starting. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Appfog was one of the requirements of our project since it was the fastest growing PAAS provider. Also it was easy to deploy an application with multiple options to choose for the development environment for our application. It was "ALL in ONE." Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	To be honest, Datadog is very similar to Splunk and LogScale to a lesser degree, but it is just as good if you don't need too complex observability. Grafana is still growing and might reach the same level soon. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible. The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Significantly reduced the MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery), which in turn has improved the end-user experience tremendously. Meets compliance requirements of security policies, audit, regulation, and forensics. Helps us to track/manage the resource usage on our cloud instances which has a direct implication on the recurring cost. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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