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Freshservice vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.5
Freshservice increased efficiency and reduced workload while improving SLA compliance and resource use, despite licensing cost challenges in HR.
Sentiment score
6.2
Splunk Cloud Platform boosts operational visibility, efficiency, and ROI through enhanced integration, dashboard access, and reduced manual tasks.
Faster resolution means the average ticket resolution time decreased by roughly twenty-five to thirty percent since alerts are automatically converted into tickets and routed to the right team.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Automation has contributed significantly, resulting in reduced resource counts, which equates to savings in money and time.
Technical support manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
With using Freshservice, only two technicians are needed per one shift, but without Freshservice, for the same company size, we need about four technicians per shift, so it saved money and time.
Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The overall cost saving from tool consolidation and automation delivered measurable return on investment within the first year.
IT Infrastructure & Cloud Manager at Softcell Technologies Limited
Splunk Cloud Platform has impacted operational costs; it's a bit expensive, but it provides value for money.
Business General Manager at Mutex Systems
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Freshservice support is generally efficient and professional, though complex issues and communication can sometimes pose challenges.
Sentiment score
5.9
Splunk Cloud's support varies, with praised resources but inconsistent response times and quality depending on account status.
Ultimately, we saw a 77% reduction in average resolution times with a return on investment realized within 6 months.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
However, they have improved over the period of two years.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Their documentation is also good, making setup easy without needing frequent support requests.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I feel that Splunk's documentation is highly maintained, regular updates seem to happen, and I don't have any suggestions for improvement as it is currently at its best.
Soc Analyst at Payatu
Support teams understand cloud and SOC issues and provide actionable guidelines quickly.
IT Infrastructure & Cloud Manager at Softcell Technologies Limited
Sometimes, the support team may not be fully knowledgeable about the challenge you face, but through their internal escalation structure, they manage to find viable solutions sooner or later or provide updates on when issues will be fixed.
Splunk Certified Architect at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Freshservice scales efficiently with added licenses, supporting growth with cloud benefits, though customization and costs may limit larger enterprises.
Sentiment score
6.9
Splunk Cloud Platform offers scalable, efficient expansion for large data, with ease of integration despite some cost and licensing concerns.
As our organization has grown and ticket volume related to AWS resources increased, Freshservice handled the extra load without any performance issues.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It offers global performance with multi-region data centers to ensure faster responses while adhering to strong security and compliance standards such as GDPR and SOC 2.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Freshservice is easy to use for scalability.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think it's scalable due to the ease of integrating and deploying multiple indexers for data processing.
Soc Analyst at Payatu
Splunk Cloud Platform is scalable for multi-tenant environments, handling terabytes of logs daily across global customers without performance impact.
IT Infrastructure & Cloud Manager at Softcell Technologies Limited
The back-end part is provided, so it is highly scalable.
Observability Engineer at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Freshservice offers stable performance with minimal downtime, few issues, and reliable cloud hosting on AWS, ensuring consistent uptime.
Sentiment score
7.9
Splunk Cloud Platform is highly reliable with quick issue resolution, despite minor outages mostly due to external factors.
The service runs smoothly most of the time, and performance has been consistent even when ticket volumes and AWS alerts are high.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Freshservice is quite stable as they host it on AWS.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Freshservice provides a stable environment for our needs.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I rate Splunk Cloud Platform a ten out of ten for stability and reliability.
Soc Analyst at Payatu
Splunk Cloud Platform was stable, and I did not see any performance issues or downtime.
IT Security Operations Manager at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Freshservice users seek improvements in reporting, automation, integrations, and customizations to enhance usability and effectiveness for larger enterprises.
Users want better third-party integration, intuitive UI, improved support, simplified alerts, optimized performance, and lower pricing for Splunk Cloud.
There's limited experience with the CMDB or asset management features.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Asset management can definitely be improved because it doesn't pick up every single device on the network or every single piece of information.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Reporting is useful, but the customization is still restricted, and it would be great to build more detailed reports that combine multiple data sources, especially for cloud-related operations.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I know there are tutorials on the website, but I feel if they rolled out more free courses on such things that provide a link to a free course for beginner training, I feel people would be interested in it.
Data Security Intern at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
In terms of enhancement for Splunk Cloud Platform, I would say if we could create add-ons or if we get the capability to build add-ons directly through cloud, not talking about the add-on builder framework, but something editor-like where we will directly edit our conf files from any specific app or TA provided by Splunk Cloud Platform itself.
Splunk Engineer at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Splunk Cloud Platform needs improvement in its security offerings, specifically in cybersecurity.
Sr Manager at Continued
 

Setup Cost

Freshservice offers flexible, competitive pricing with tiered plans, varying costs, and value without hidden fees.
Splunk Cloud Platform's pricing is high but offers significant value, though cost predictability and transparency remain concerns.
Switching from previous ITSM tools has led to a 50% reduction in licensing costs.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
The solution offers flat licensing and appears to be cost-effective.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The price was very comfortable for our organization to proceed with the migration from Freshdesk to Freshservice.
Technical support manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Once you are in the partnership with Splunk Cloud Platform and with Cisco, you can have good discounts, you can make the deal and discuss, and they are willing to help you as a partner in finding the solution and finding your target.
Innovation Service Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Splunk Cloud is considered too expensive, with its two product offerings both being costly.
Sr Manager at Continued
If I were to rate the price for the product from 1 to 10, I would rate it nine.
Business General Manager at Mutex Systems
 

Valuable Features

Freshservice enhances IT operations with user-friendly features, seamless integrations, automation, and efficient asset management, boosting productivity and SLA compliance.
Splunk Cloud Platform offers enterprise-grade capabilities enhancing operational insights with easy deployment, cost-saving management, and robust security features.
The most valuable features include ticket routing, automation in triage, data control, and flat licensing.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Incident management is very helpful, and the system is straightforward, making it easy to use for our enterprise-level company.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Overall, Freshservice provides cutting-edge AI automation for agents and end-users, effortless no-code workflows and ITIL-aligned operations, robust asset, incident, change, problem, and major incident management backed by the live CMDB, unified service desk with self-service and multi-channel support, and strong analytics reporting features, making it a powerful tool for any IT function.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its robustness and ability to ingest logs.
Sr Manager at Continued
The search capability utilizes the same compute assigned, and compared to on-premises, it is very efficient and fast because on-premises we had fixed compute assigned with limits set for searching per role or application.
Senior Software Engineer at WorldPay US
The platform's alerting mechanism is valuable, as there is software that makes alarms in case of attacks.
Chief Executive Officer at ENAD
 

Categories and Ranking

Freshservice
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (5th), Project Management Software (10th), Cloud Management (12th), IT Asset Management (4th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (4th), Configuration Management Databases (5th), AI IT Support (3rd)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Freshservice is 0.6%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Cloud Platform is 1.7%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.7%
Freshservice0.6%
Other97.7%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

RF
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Automation and AI have transformed our service delivery and have made IT support faster and more efficient
I always keep up with Freshservice's roadmaps and new features. Freshservice has been very good at listening to feedback and adding those feature requests into their next iterations. I wish they would offer more granular data export options for utilizing in Power BI, along with predictive analytics for capacity planning and SLA breaches to enable more proactive support management and reduce firefighting. While the dashboards are effective, some users find custom reporting limited compared to ServiceNow or Jira. I would also appreciate deeper integrations, especially for niche apps requiring development coding work to enable advanced orchestration. Native integrations for DevOps pipelines such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins, along with stronger API flexibility for complex workflows, would enhance functionality. Although the CMDB and asset management are solid, they do lack advanced dependency mapping compared to other enterprise tools. My wishlist includes automated impact analysis for changes and improved visualization of asset relationships, enabling quicker resolutions from an agent's perspective when alerts come in. I acknowledge that Device42 may enhance this, but it is an extra cost beyond what we already pay. While Freddy AI is excellent for triage and suggestions, some users desire more proactive automation, such as predictive ticket routing based on historical patterns and AI-driven capacity forecasting. Lastly, the pricing tiers might seem rigid for mid-sized teams, so a more granular add-on option for features such as Device42 or pay-per-use for orchestration workflows could be beneficial.
Shivam Dhang - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure & Cloud Manager at Softcell Technologies Limited
Centralized monitoring has transformed our multi-tenant security operations and automated response
The best features Splunk Cloud Platform offers are the multi-tenant data isolation plus role-based access control, secure index-level segregation for managing multiple global customers in a shared Splunk Cloud Platform environment. Additionally, features such as native integrations with SIEM, SOAR, and ITSM enable us to automate incident response, ticketing, and end-to-end security workflows across client environments. The high-scale injection plus SPL correlation process handles large volumes of infrastructure security logs with real-time analytics for managing SOC and cloud operations. Splunk Cloud Platform has positively impacted our organization as we have achieved faster incident detection and response, lower MTTR with real-time SPL alerts and automated workflows. It has also improved our multi-tenant visibility and centralized monitoring, reducing tool sprawl. We also saw better compliance and audit readiness with consistent log retention and reporting.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
7%
Construction Company
7%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise15
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise46
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Freshservice?
I do not have any experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing, as it was assigned to the infrastructure team.
What needs improvement with Freshservice?
Freshservice has an AI agent that needs improvement for finding knowledge base articles. When issues or incidents are received in Freshservice, new users should be able to receive direct help from ...
What is your primary use case for Freshservice?
Freshservice is used to redirect ticket handling and acknowledge tickets and incidents received. Tickets are redirected with their short description and subject line in Freshservice, which allows f...
What do you like most about Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
I don't see any new requirements in terms of improvements for Splunk Cloud Platform at this time. Splunk's dashboarding, reporting, and visualizations are evolving at a larger scale with the new Sp...
 

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Sample Customers

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Western Carriers, Judson University, Golf Canada, Travix, Proxama, Paymentez, Ready Auto Transport
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