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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
Formerly SignalFx

Overview

What is Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?

SignalFX is Real-Time Cloud Monitoring and Observability for Infrastructure, Microservices and Applications. SignalFX was acquired by Splunk in August 2019. SignalFX Infrastructure Monitoring provides real-time cloud monitoring and observability platform for infrastructure, microservices and DevOps. A new SignalFX product, SignalFx…

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, formerly known as SignalFx, has been widely used across organizations for continuous monitoring of cloud …
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observability

10 out of 10
June 17, 2022
Incentivized
To gain observability over a distributed higher education environment is so important - and this product helps build that infostructure …
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Splunk review

8 out of 10
March 25, 2022
Incentivized
I use Splunk Monitoring as a primary monitoring tool in our Cloud Infrastructure. The data is pushed from the agent to Splunk Server. We …
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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $15 per month
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Product Details

What is Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring aims to enable faster innovation, operational agility, and better customer experience through real-time AI-driven streaming analytics allowing accurate alerts in seconds. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is designed to shorten MTTD and MTTR by providing real-time visibility into cloud infrastructure and services. These benefits are built on Open-Source frameworks, eliminating vendor lock-in and built for cloud-native enterprise scale to support even the largest of environments.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Screenshots

Screenshot of Real-time monitoring for public, private and hybrid cloud

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS

Frequently Asked Questions

SignalFX is Real-Time Cloud Monitoring and Observability for Infrastructure, Microservices and Applications. SignalFX was acquired by Splunk in August 2019. SignalFX Infrastructure Monitoring provides real-time cloud monitoring and observability platform for infrastructure, microservices and DevOps. A new SignalFX product, SignalFx Microservices APM, was released March 2020 to detect issues, provide real-time app troubleshooting, and future-proof expectations.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring starts at $15.

Datadog, Prometheus, and New Relic are common alternatives for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.

The most common users of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, formerly known as SignalFx, has been widely used across organizations for continuous monitoring of cloud resources and application statuses. Users have relied on Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to aggregate data from various areas and correlate them to pinpoint problem areas. Different applications within organizations have used Splunk to monitor core infrastructure, back-end app servers, front-end servers, databases, and other parts of the application. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has helped track hundreds of device endpoints, providing visibility into each device and the ability to customize the data received from them.

The monitoring capabilities of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring have helped detect device problems and automatically remediate them in some cases. Users have determined custom logs to capture, noted their locations and hosts, and gathered sample log files for Splunk ingest. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has been used to monitor AWS infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, and provide visualizations of different data types. It has also been used to monitor Azure and on-prem resources, as well as application health. The product has served as the primary monitoring and alerting solution for infrastructure and application metrics, helping maintain uptime on systems and address business problems related to system monitoring.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has delivered real-time monitoring and troubleshooting across various platforms, enabling instant visualization, alerts, insights, and troubleshooting steps. It has provided observability over a distributed higher education environment and helped build an infrastructure map for steering decisions. The product has been used for incident detection and prevention, monitoring logs, and saving logs for all necessary cases. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has been used as a primary monitoring tool in Cloud Infrastructure, managing dashboards and incidents. It has offered deep insights into system and network activities, monitored applications, and alerted when applications go down. The product has helped monitor service health, diagnose issues, and show data in a manner that exposes the desired information. It has been used to monitor infrastructure and services, set baselines, and analyze logs for trends, issues, improvements, and reporting.

Customers have found value in the proactive monitoring features of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, allowing them to take action based on metrics like CPU utilization and disk space. Reviewers have praised the product's ability to alert users about system issues and take proactive measures to maintain system uptime. Overall, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has proven instrumental in monitoring different environments, including production, UAT, development, Linux virtual machines, AWS infrastructure, Azure resources, on-prem resources, and application health. By providing real-time insights, visualizations, and alerts, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring empowers organizations to make informed decisions and address business problems related to system monitoring effectively.

Attribute Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Aggregate data in a simple way
  • Versatile search and correlation interfaces
  • fast
  • Finding the correct app for the use case can be tedious
  • natural language searches can be very helpful as well as results
  • integration of suggestions \ autocomplete
Brennan Fuller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Alerting quickly and correctly
  • High data integrity
  • Providing real user monitoring
  • Quick log searching
  • Sometimes Splunk inexplicably doesn't alert when it should.
  • Price is high
  • I haven't seen a way to automatically dashboard, a range of similar events. A particular host for example
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy integration with the code and infrastructure.
  • Easy to define new (and complex) metrics.
  • Advance alerts mechanize.
  • Better integration with our clients (native mobile clients SDKs will be great).
  • A way to easily tag filters and move them across metrics/formula.
  • Alert system to easy false [alarm] and hard to configure.
  • Be able to have group more dimensions (and have more values on each).
November 04, 2022

Good Splunk helps us!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Separate AWS accounts with. indexes
  • Go to detail of issues
  • Fast and reliable tool
  • Maybe sharing pre establish queries to other members of the team in the same session.
  • Possibility to customize the main dashboard
  • Better free training for sure!
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Good uptime for the product
  • Allows us to see everything
  • allows us to get detailed information on system health
  • Could be easier to start with for users
  • more plug and play for management
  • would love to see more custom coloring options
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Uses one tool (OTEL) to enable integration
  • Enables custom tagging
  • Correlates Infrastructure and APM
  • RBAC is needed to enable the segmentation of duties and keep dashboards and detectors safe from ad-hoc changes.
  • Ability to seamlessly import the Billing and Usage SO data into Splunk Core to analyze
June 17, 2022

observability

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Helps standardize data from multiple sources
  • Gains visibility over a huge map of complicated services
  • provides a framework for us to make smart decisions
  • more online forums/lectures
  • seeing more examples of the product so we can adapt and solve problems others have solved
March 25, 2022

Splunk review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • SignalFx Agent Easy Installation. We have many examples of installing SignalFx via Ansible, Chef, and Packer.
  • Manu type of detectors for all the Cloud (AWS , Azure and GCP).
  • Signal Flow - Support for Creating Detectors using the Programming Interface.
  • Documentation and tutorials for Beginners for starting to learn SignalFX / Splunk.
Ahmed Mujeeb | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Integrations and customizations with SignalFx are relatively easy.
  • We haven't seen any noticeable downtime events or impactful service interruptions in our environment.
  • Graphs and detectors cannot process more than 10,000 hosts at a time.
  • Few other features we'd like to see are missing, but they are improving day by day.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • UX, dashboards and KPI charts.
  • Really good documentation and training options.
  • Splunk supports hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring a big plus for enterprises with cloud services.
  • It's expensive only large enterprise can afford.
  • UI improvement - built in dashboard templates, search and filter options.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Excellent reporting for the monitoring information.
  • Graphical representation in charts and workflows.
  • Detailed logging for all the monitoring activity.
  • Integration with cloud services like AWS and IBM.
  • Cost is on the higher side.
  • Density and detailing in logs should be increased to give in-depth analysis of the issue/error encountered.
  • Documentation needs to be improved.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Fast, real-time graphs
  • The agility to build and customize personal dashboards
  • The ability to get a full view on abnormal performance/use of system and services
  • Predictive AI for anomalous behavior
  • Suggesting root cause of malfunction
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Metric breakdowns
  • Dashboards and charts
  • Detectors and alerting mechanism
  • Chart sharing needs an improvement because it creates links only valid for 7 days.
  • Metrics search can be improved, most of the time I want to see which specific metric is used in which charts. This would make my life so much easier to find the charts that I’m looking for.
  • There is a 5000 time series limit on each metric. If any metric has a breakdown more than 5000 combination, only some of them is reported and this make my charts sometimes unreliable. It would be nice to support more time series, at least with a configuration.
Imnet Worku Edossa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Resource utilisation metrics
  • Continuous data sent from within applications
  • Integration with 3rd party tools to trigger on-call notification alerts
  • I'd say better advice on how best organizations can tailor it to suit their needs
  • I've seen newcomers face a steeper learning curve, and hence better documentation
  • I'm not a big fan of how active/inactive metrics can be told apart
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It’s very customizable and accepts any metric.
  • Customer support is quick and good quality.
  • Easy to create graphs and detectors.
  • Accumulates alerts from terminated EC2 instances and then sends false/incorrect alerts when another instance uses the same IP.
  • Documentation is sometimes hard to understand. Could use more examples.
DJ Enriquez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • SignalFX handles historical metric aggregation exceptionally well, providing a multifaceted approach to event detection based on anomalies.
  • SignalFX's cost is incredibly flexible with their pricing model of DPM (data-point per minute) vs the traditional "per host" model that most monitoring SaaS use.
  • SignalFX support is responsive and knowledgeable, very eager to help solve your immediate problems.
  • SignalFX integrations is vast and constantly growing, making adoption easy even when multiple different open-source technologies are used in your stack.
  • SignalFX has room for improvement in UX. With the amount of options available, SignalFX use can be somewhat complicated. They seem to prefer a less-opinionated implementation, which can have its pros and cons. Other solutions like Datadog can be easier to implement, though at the cost of their opinion on implementation and price.
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