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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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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.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As the engineering team, we use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring mainly to monitor the application usage and system load (DevOps) together. We do share some metrics with other teams within the organization (marketing, BizDev, Product, and so on) mainly to understand our user usage and main flow.
  • 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).
Monitor our application usage and system load.
November 04, 2022

Good Splunk helps us!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Splunk to monitor our AWS Infrastructure. For that, we send the AWS Cloud Watch group logs to Splunk for all the accounts we have.
Splunk facilitate us to troubleshooting issues inside AWS using the queries and dashboards.
  • 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!
Suitable for multiple AWS accounts / AWS services
EKS troubleshooting
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to deliver real-time monitoring and troubleshooting across our many platforms. Real-time streaming analytics gives us instant visualization, alerts, as well as insights, and troubleshooting steps. Being able to see our infrastructure in real-time allows us to troubleshoot possible performance issues cutting down on the turnaround time or any effects on the customers.
  • Visualization
  • actionable alerts
  • real time
  • Integrations of APIs
  • personalization
  • better documentation
We used to use a lot of SQL logs and manual monitoring of our infrastructure. This takes time as well as being proactive to stay ahead of an outage no matter the severity. SQL logs are great but do take time to run. Manual checking is good for smaller networks or occasionally monitoring situations. As an organization, we were mostly reactive as it was nearly impossible to stay ahead of all negative situations. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has allowed us to become proactive, and freed us from manually looking for a fix or what the impact would be. It's all laid out for you and allows you to reach out to all necessary departments quickly. No more guessing!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SO to monitor Azure and on-prem resources. We also leverage APM to monitor application health. We host a variety of products from an API Gateway to Claims Engines. SO enables us to proactively monitor issues across our micro-services hosted in a hybrid infrastructure.
  • 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
One of our best experiences has been Database monitoring as a derived service of APM. The ability to see the impact of poor queries without having to depend on Database-specific monitors is excellent. Another experience was the ability to determine the status of on-prem hosts via detectors and detector health-check. We use the health check to determine the host was unavailable in a 10-minute window which enabled our teams to take action and reduce the impact on the overall service.
March 25, 2022

Splunk review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 manage all of the Dashboard in the Splunk UI. Also for Incident management, we use detectors from Splunk and some custom-made detectors. Also, alerts are pushed as incidents to Pagerduty and ServiceNow.
  • 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.
Data aggregation in the once account for all the customers and various service providers. I don't have to switch to different accounts which is really time-saving.
Ahmed Mujeeb | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Their visualizations of all different kinds of data are great. has been very useful for more complex charts. This helps me choosing what metrics I report and how often. They are growing and looking to provide more and more features. We plan on using many of these new features as they are released.
  • 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.
SignalFx makes it easy to visualize and alert on time series data. If you want to make charts of system load, requests per second, and so on, they will likely serve you well.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring across enterprises as a standard infrastructure monitoring solution for various mission-critical business application systems. We had set up pub/sub architecture to collect streaming analytical data. We mostly use it for on-premises devices. Operations teams rely on its alerting capabilities to ensure system uptime and act on some proactive metrics like CPU utilization and disk spaces full, etc.
  • 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.
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is the ultimate choice for infrastructure monitoring and can be easily mastered by the operations team. It even has built-in integration options support for various clouds and database or analytics services so it is the ideal choice for large enterprises to improvise observability and track key infra metrics. Newly they have introduced cloud SaaS service as well with easier pricing options to get started or evaluation.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our team has used Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring for a BFSI client to do monitoring of all the production, UAT, and development environments. Also, we have used it for monitoring the Linux virtual machines. We are able to run automated scripts on all the servers to monitor the usage patterns and heavy load time throughout the day.
  • 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.
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is well suited for scenarios where you have a large and well-expanded infrastructure for your applications and services. It helps to automate the monitoring process with zero human intervention. Easy integration with the cloud allows to performing monitoring at ease.
May 02, 2021

Great product

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We [are] using [Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (formerly SignalFx)] in order to help us monitor our service health and diagnose issues that big data can help with.
This is one of the most advanced tools I've used for the matter, I was always able to find a way to show the data I need in a manner that will expose the info I'm looking for, adding alerts based on this is a killer feature. The only drawback I find is that you might have a [steep] learning curve in order to control this tool.
  • Diagnostic
  • Advanced charting
  • Alerts
  • Easiness of use
  • Templates for common usage
  • Better documentation
If you have a lot of traffic/users and you would like to monitor for some issues or bottleneck that might arise due to it [Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (formerly SignalFx)] can really help you with.
If you find yourself repeating some math over and over just to extract interesting information from your product the try it out.
Imnet Worku Edossa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (formerly SignalFx)] is being used across the entire organization for many purposes such as continuous monitoring of cloud resources and application statuses. It addresses business problems that require us to get timely notifications for events occurring within our infrastructure and address them accordingly. In my own department, our continuous monitoring tools rely on SFX reports.
  • 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
For monitoring cloud resources, such as instances, containers, pods, CPU utilization and the like, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring [(formerly SignalFx)] is very well suited. For instantaneous notifications for events that require intervention, it is also pretty well suited. I'd say it is less appropriate for logging though, whereby historical data is used to trace bugs and issues in code.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The whole organization is using it to monitor our applications: CPU usage, memory consumption, sometimes JVM metrics. Mostly we use it to alert us when applications go down.
  • 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.
It would probably work much better for static servers, not ephemeral VMs like EC2 instances.
DJ Enriquez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SignalFX is used as the primary monitoring and alerting solution for our infrastructure and application metrics. It is used by engineering and solves the business problem of incident detection and/or prevention.
  • 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.
SignalFX is well suited for environments where cost is a concern and the ability to decide what metrics are important to control that cost. Organizations with bandwidth to onboard a new system are also at an advantage. Organizations where cost is not a concern, may find better solutions elsewhere.
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