Splunk Observability Cloud vs. Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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.
$180
per year per host
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Zscaler digital experience is a cloud-native service, part of the Zscaler security cloud, that analyzes, troubleshoots, and resolves user experience issues. Zscaler Digital Experience is part of the comprehensive Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform, which enables fast, secure connections and allows employees to work from anywhere using the internet as the corporate network. Based on least-privileged access, it provides comprehensive security using context-based identity and policy…N/A
Pricing
Splunk Observability CloudZscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Splunk Observability CloudZscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
Splunk Observability CloudZscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(57 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.7
(16 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Splunk Observability CloudZscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
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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Zscaler
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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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Zscaler
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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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Zscaler
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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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Zscaler
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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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Zscaler
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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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Zscaler
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Implementation Rating
Cisco
Follow a training before starting.
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Zscaler
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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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Zscaler
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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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Zscaler
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ScreenShots

Splunk Observability Cloud Screenshots

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