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AppInsights vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

AppInsights
Ranking in Data Visualization
45th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Cloud Platform
Ranking in Data Visualization
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
89
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of AppInsights is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Cloud Platform is 1.0%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.0%
AppInsights0.5%
Other98.5%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

Karen Trinidad - PeerSpot reviewer
Jr data engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Cost-efficient, good analytics, and stable
Since our application is hosted in the cloud, there is no need for installation. I can simply access the portal and navigate to App Insights for easy access. I give the initial setup a ten out of ten. The deployment took approximately 24 hours to complete due to the large amount of data that had to be transferred. We had about fifteen people involved in the configuration, with two main people taking the lead and the rest on standby in case something happened.
reviewer2805510 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Unified log analytics has transformed security monitoring and cuts breach detection to minutes
Splunk Cloud Platform has areas for improvement, including the fact that it is obviously an enterprise tool and can be expensive, which is the biggest complaint I have noted. Costs can rise due to high data ingestion and long retention periods, along with a complex licensing structure that makes pricing difficult to predict as usage grows, especially since more systems send logs. There are also performance concerns at scale where users have reported slower searches and expensive long-term storage needs, particularly in multi-terabyte environments. Additionally, operational complexity exists as enterprises still need to do data onboarding, create dashboards, handle retention policies, access control, and performance tuning. These are the three key areas of improvement I have identified.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is analytics."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud is the quick setup."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is a very mature solution and an enterprise-grade solution that brings the work we have to do with customers to an enterprise-grade level."
"UBA is a great application within Splunk Cloud Platform."
"For my current requirements, the tool theme seems to be meeting my requirements, from a cost and requirements perspective."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is a market leader known for its strengths in enterprise-scale log analysis, advanced security monitoring, complex event correlation, and deep search capabilities."
"Data Visualization and IT Alerting and Incident Management are the main valuable features, primarily to get a better idea of what's going on."
"Splunk reduced our mean time to resolve by 30%. If an application starts misbehaving, we send logs to Splunk and check to see what's going on and see what's happening."
"Splunk Cloud Platform has greatly improved my daily operations through enhanced integration with third-party tools."
 

Cons

"The UI of the solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"The only disadvantage of Splunk Cloud compared to Splunk Enterprise Security is that you only have two options for long-term storage: AWS S3 Buckets and GCP."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform dashboard could benefit from some improvements."
"The support from the Splunk team is generally good, but sometimes, there's a lack of coordination between our account reps and the hands-on technical people. This misalignment can lead to issues with getting what we need done and what is happening."
"Pricing is too high for Splunk Cloud Platform."
"Splunk Cloud Platform has areas for improvement, including the fact that it is obviously an enterprise tool and can be expensive, which is the biggest complaint I have noted."
"Every time they launch new versions, we experience a few bugs. The most recent version had a couple of bugs in the databases. We contacted the vendor and got assistance solving these bugs, so the environment is more stable."
"We face occasional downtime issues where when we try to scale up, we face a considerable amount of challenges."
"The return on investment with Splunk Cloud Platform has been poor. There is a significant possibility we will be replacing it in the next quarter or two."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is cost-efficient and I give it an eight out of ten."
"The price is something that people complain about."
"The certifications are costly."
"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
"I know that Splunk Cloud Platform is an expensive product."
"We were on ingest. We were on-prem, and when we switched to the cloud, we went to an SVC model, and that has been a huge help. We are now able to ingest more data than before."
"It was a good model."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform is expensive."
"The licensing is based on the amount of data that we send to the cloud on a daily basis."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
18%
Construction Company
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise56
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
The pricing of Splunk Cloud Platform is a concern for me; it is very costly, making it hard for small to medium vendors to afford. Splunk does not actually save resources for us because it only hel...
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform has room for improvement because managing the architecture for a newcomer, such as an intern, can be hard. They could provide better documentation and videos to help with lear...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
My use case for Splunk Cloud Platform involves working in an organization that provides a daily full dashboard showing daily searches, daily ingestion, daily alerts, and more.
 

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