Powerful and flexible, though not perfect for dynamic cloud environments
April 29, 2021

Powerful and flexible, though not perfect for dynamic cloud environments

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

SignalFx Infrastructure Monitoring

Overall Satisfaction with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

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.

Pros

  • It’s very customizable and accepts any metric.
  • Customer support is quick and good quality.
  • Easy to create graphs and detectors.

Cons

  • 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.
  • Reduced downtime.
  • Caused us to get a lot of spam when we redeployed apps and old instances stopped sending metrics. Muting alerts solves this, but people often forget to do it or do it incorrectly.
  • Helped us find historical info about instances/apps.
SignalFx is similar to Datadog, but I don’t have enough experience with Datadog to compare them.

Do you think Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring's feature set?

Yes

Did Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring again?

Yes

It would probably work much better for static servers, not ephemeral VMs like EC2 instances.

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