Elastic Observability vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Elastic Observability
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Elastic Observability, from Elastic, the makers of Elasticsearch, is a solution that aims to bring logs, metrics, and APM based on the former Opbeat (acquired by Elastic in 2017) traces together at scale in a single stack so users can monitor and react to events happening anywhere in an IT environment. It's free and open to start, and adds the Logs, Metrics, APM (formerly Opbeat), and Uptime modules to the Elastic (ELK) Stack.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
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Observability Cloud
Editions & Modules
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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
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Observability Cloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Observability Cloud
Considered Both Products
Elastic Observability
Chose Elastic Observability
Elastic observability has a lot of features and good customer support. And Overall cost is good. Product functionality and performance are good but have some charting issues. But it is good. Elastic observability has a product roadmap and future vision. And it also has a good …
Chose Elastic Observability
Splunk is a very good product but the licensing costs are high; we utilise the best of both worlds by using both products for slightly different purposes. We put the voluminous data with simple use cases in Elastic where it doesn't cost too much and can be searched quickly …
Splunk Observability Cloud
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Chose Splunk Observability Cloud
Tenable Cloud Security and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
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
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 …
Chose Splunk Observability Cloud
It has edge because of our existing logging solutions is Splunk
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. …
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
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.
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.
Chose Splunk Observability Cloud
We believe that it's less vulnerable to security aspects as compared to others.
Chose Splunk Observability Cloud
Splunk requires less work for data in gestion and parsing. Splunk has more efficient data display features.
Chose Splunk Observability Cloud
Splunk Log Observer provides easy setup and ease of admin features and direction of product was better compared to Lightstep
Chose Splunk Observability Cloud
Splunk is easy to customize and ingest our data. It is far more understandable and secure than other applications.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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User Ratings
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Observability Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.0
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Usability
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7.6
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Support Rating
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
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User Testimonials
Elastic ObservabilitySplunk Observability Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Great platform for managing application and server logs at a large scale. Elasticsearch can be integrated into 3rd-party software. For example, when combined with Kibana, beats, and logstash to build a full ELK stack it is very powerful and extremely useful for log evaluation, analysis showing detailed information, and creating a monitoring system.
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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.
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Pros
  • Licensing model is fair compared with other vendors that charge much more
  • Ability to scale and ingest a lot of data without having to worry too much about performance issues that may crop up
  • Searches return very fast
  • GUI searching interface and filters are intuitive and suitable for new users
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  • 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.
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Cons
  • User Interface.
  • Dashboarding.
  • Charting issues.
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  • 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
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Likelihood to Renew
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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
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Usability
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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.
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Support Rating
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Splunk support is very quick and efficient. Pre-sale specialists are very skilled and available.
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Implementation Rating
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Follow a training before starting.
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Alternatives Considered
Elastic observability has a lot of features and good customer support. And Overall cost is good. Product functionality and performance are good but have some charting issues. But it is good. Elastic observability has a product roadmap and future vision. And it also has a good and strong user community with a lot of people engaging with good customer support for all needs.
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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.
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Return on Investment
  • Flexibility to store, search and aggregate any type of data, regardless of data source.
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  • 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.
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ScreenShots

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