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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Splunk Observability Cloud

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASplunk 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.

    $180

    per year per host

    SUSE Rancher

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/ADeveloped by Rancher Labs and now from SUSE, Rancher is open-source software that enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale, on any infrastructure across the data center, cloud, branch offices, and the network edge. Rancher centrally manages Kubernetes clusters across the organization in order to ensure security and accelerate transformation. Rancher is also available hosted. Hosted Rancher is a fully managed Rancher control plane - presented as the fastest, most cost…

    $7,594.99

    per year up to 500 nodes

    Pricing
    Splunk Observability CloudSUSE Rancher
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Subscription license
    7,594.99
    per year up to 500 nodes
    Standard Subscription
    11,234.99
    per year 10 nodes
    Priority Subscription
    30,514.99
    per year 10 nodes
    Management Server Priority Subscription
    41,830.99
    per year 1 instance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Splunk Observability CloudSUSE Rancher
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Splunk Observability CloudSUSE Rancher
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    No answer on this topic
    SUSE
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    55 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    48 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    57 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    45 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    Splunk Observability CloudSUSE Rancher
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Splunk Observability Cloud and SUSE Rancher
    Feature
    Splunk Observability Cloud
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    Ratings
    SUSE Rancher
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    Cluster Management00 Ratings7.47 Ratings
    Storage Management00 Ratings6.76 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Discovery Tools00 Ratings6.56 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings7.17 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings7.86 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
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    Splunk Observability CloudSUSE Rancher
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    Amazon CloudWatch
    Score7.8 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    Score10 out of 10
    Kubernetes
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Splunk Observability CloudSUSE Rancher
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (59 ratings)
    8.8
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (18 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Splunk Observability CloudSUSE Rancher
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Its great if you need real-time visibility across complex or regulated environments. Also strong for hybrid or multi-cloud setups where uptime, observability and fast IR are required. It’s probably overkill for smaller teams or environments that don’t have constant changes or compliance reporting needs. It's expensive and has a steep learning curve. Also, in my opinion, do not get yourself into a consumption based model. Costs can certainly get out of control quickly.
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    SUSE
    SUSE Rancher as a management tool becomes useful on a larger scale. Small deployments not so much. If someone also requires Kubernetes capacity or storage, Rancher is an excellent choice. Also, without Kubernetes' skills, it is unlikely that Rancher deployment is going to be a success. Then again if someone else is managing your Kubernetes capacity, setting up the software's capacity will yield greater control. Rancher is not a very integrated solution similar to others in the market.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • 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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    SUSE
    • Public and private cloud infrastructure providers based on K8s CAPI
    • REST API that can be used to integrate company services with Rancher
    • GUI that is easy to learn and use in daily operations
    • Builtin GitOps automation solution based on Fleet project
    • It is fully open source
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • You can use table-like functionality to generate dashboards, but these queries are heavy on the system.
    • It could be easier to give insight into what type of line parsing is used for specific documents in a company-managed environment and/or show ways to gain the insights needed.
    • I would like to see ways to anonymize specific data for shared reports without pre-formatting this in a dashboard on which reports could be based.
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    SUSE
    • No possibility to snapshot Projects. You can snapshot and restore the whole Kubernetes cluster, but not a Project or Namespace. For this, you have to use external tools.
    • You cannot detach the Rancher-created Kubernetes clusters from Rancher management.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    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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    SUSE
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Cisco
    When there is an issue, it’s a win if one can easily identify the root cause. To do the same, it should allow the user to dig deep with multiple data points and compare the data and identify the anomaly. In this use case, it’s good to drive from Splunk 011y.
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    SUSE
    Overall it deserves an 8 out of 10. The platform is very easy to use as long as the UI is stable. We have had a few buggy versions in the past. However the CLI is excellent and the platform is simple to manage and maintain. It is easy to deploy and offer for company wide use which increases utilization and ROI.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Splunk support is very quick and efficient. Pre-sale specialists are very skilled and available.
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    SUSE
    The documentation is quite complete and there is a very active community that is willing to collaborate and answer questions for those who are just starting out.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    Follow a training before starting.
    Incentivized
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    SUSE
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    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 of servers and agents residing together within a single data centre, but modern apps are no longer like this.
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    SUSE
    We started using SUSE Rancher in the early days and spent a large amount of time getting to know and love it. This was before the days of some of the likes of Amazon Web Services who may now provide a cheaper but less feature-rich alternative to SUSE Rancher, however we have yet to explore this.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    SUSE
    The investment for small environments is quite significant. There has to be a compelling case to enhance the areas where SUSE Rancher brings in value to make such a financial leap. There is also a free version to test the value propositions, which will help support the user's buying decisions. More clusters, more volume, more tasks and more complexity in the environment equals more value that Rancher can provide.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • 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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    SUSE
    • Shortens "Time-to-Market" factor for new business applications or implementing new functionalities. From 1 to 50 microservices-based business applications in 6 years.
    • 24/7 availability, generates more money. There are many infrastructure components that are regularly powered-off for maintenance or upgrade, bur we rarely are turning off our downstream Kubernetes clusters where our business applications lives.
    • Single Point of Contact with platform maintenance and development Team, eases implementation of new business applications
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