Freshservice vs Splunk On-Call comparison

Freshworks and Splunk are both solutions in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category. Freshworks is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3, while Splunk is ranked #12 with an average rating of 9.0. Freshworks holds a 0.6% mindshare in IMS, compared to Splunk’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Freshworks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

Freshservice

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97% willing to recommend

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83% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Freshservice and Splunk On-Call based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IT Alerting and Incident Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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

Categories and Ranking

Freshservice

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

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 On-Call

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

12th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 On-Call is 3.7%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Freshservice	0.6%
Splunk On-Call	3.7%
Other	95.7%

IT Alerting and Incident Management

Featured Reviews

Raja Farrar

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.

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Venda E

Cloud Option Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Automated alert routing has improved incident response and now enables faster on-call collaboration

Some of the features of Splunk On-Call include automated alert routing and escalation that will ensure the right people get notified immediately. Also, on-call scheduling and rotation management. This feature makes managing shifts and coverage very easy. Another feature is real-time incident collaboration and communication. This will help bring the right team together fast. Another feature is alert de-duplication and suppression. This will reduce the noise, so only meaningful alerts reach the on-call staff. The feature I rely on the most in my daily work is automated alert routing and escalation. It ensures that critical issues go directly to the right engineer without delay, which saves time and prevents the incident from being missed. This has been the biggest contributor to improving our response times. The noise reduction feature is also very helpful. By filtering out non-critical or duplicate alerts, Splunk On-Call keeps our team focused on what actually matters and prevents alert fatigue. Splunk On-Call has helped my organization to improve response times, reduce missed alerts, and coordinate teams more efficiently during incidents. It also reduced alert fatigue and made our on-call process more reliable and predictable. Our average incident response time dropped by around 20% to 25%, mainly because alerts reached the right people faster. We also noticed fewer unnecessary escalations, and missed alerts almost completely stopped after we implemented automated routing and escalation policies.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Freshservice has automated a lot of our tasks, including ticket responses and call assignments, which has sped up our operations considerably."

"The solution’s timely automated triggers increase our IT team’s productivity."

"There is a nice user interface."

"We like the mail tickets on offer; it is something we love, and there are workflows that are working quite well, with multiple queues and resolution groups, and the solution has been stable."

"What it's allowed us to do is bring everyone in our department into the journey of customer experience and customer service."

"The solution is very responsive with a 97% success rate in funneling customer tickets."

"The solution has been stable."

"I do like the workflow automation capabilities, where based upon certain actions, it will automatically go and route tickets to a particular person. It is fairly user-friendly."

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"The alert calling feature is the best because notifications are delivered via phone messages."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is helpdesk escalation."

"My VP of Operations is ecstatic about the VictorOps product."

"Splunk On-Call has helped my organization to improve response times, reduce missed alerts, and coordinate teams more efficiently during incidents."

"Its the best solution of its type out there, you should go for it."

"Technical support is an A+ or a 10/10; if I could give an 11/10, I would, and it is what I love about them."

"VictorOps has decreased the meantime to acknowledge an incident management process, our developers can be on-call faster when we are using this solution, and we can fix our incidents much quicker."

"We are very satisfied with the tool."

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Cons

"We'd like better integration with other products."

"Freshservice could improve the integration with Microsoft Outlook."

"While the dashboards are effective, some users find custom reporting limited compared to ServiceNow or Jira."

"It's hard to interact directly with the users themselves."

"You can't implement a complicated delivery workflow. We don't have the same problems with incident and change workflows. It's only for delivery workflow. They have a mechanism for modifying your incident or change workflow. There's a visual interface for that, so there's no reason not to have the same function for request management."

"I would suggest that Freshservice enhance its technical capabilities, particularly when it comes to ICT network discovery."

"There are some limitations in reporting. For example, I would like to have a report of conversations or replies."

"I think it would be great if the tool had another version that is more customizable. From what I remember, there were some limitations regarding the number of assets you could track. In a more robust version, the number of assets increases, but I think it would be better to have something more customizable for all versions, especially the most robust version. This would be great for larger customers."

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"We chose to move away from the HP product as far as our monitoring goes and dealing with system-generated alerts, simply because it took too much time and effort to manage the APM platform."

"The solution can be improved by including a wider list of permissions."

"The third-party configuration tool could be easier to use."

"Should have more YouTube webinars."

"Many years ago, when VictorOps was a standalone company, when it was not part of Splunk, their support was more dedicated for us."

"One area for improvement would be enhancing the mobile app experience."

"Another example is that you cannot check the incidents created in VictorOps from the previous Friday."

"At that stage, all our needs are fulfilled, but at the beginning, we had some feature requests and they were deployed during their roadmap."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution has an annual licensing model."

"One of the key benefits of Freshservice is license management. Asset management has the possibility to keep track of licenses and that's very useful. The price of the solution is very good."

"We're basically paying about $100 USD per agent per month."

"Freshservice is a fairly cheap solution. Though monthly payments can be made towards the licensing costs of the solution, my company prefers to make annual payments."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The pricing information is on their website. It's my understanding that their Pro Plan, for example, is around $89/month."

"It is good for the price you pay. It has different plans. If you need all features, you need to go for a higher plan. Currently, with the second tier plan, you cannot completely separate the group of agents. So, the agent in each group can see another person's ticket. You also cannot modify the rules based on the viewable, readable stuff and cannot have a custom role in this plan. If you want to do that, you have to go for a higher plan. It works in our case because it doesn't matter if the other group can see our ticket because it doesn't contain anything sensitive. We also didn't need the project or change management features. That's why we didn't go with a higher plan."

"It was a middle tier. It wasn't an expensive one. It was a tier model usage. Licensing costs varied between admin users and regular users."

More Freshservice pricing and cost advice

"The price of the solution could be less expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

University

10%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Construction Company

Performing Arts

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Transportation Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	24
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	15

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	9

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.

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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 ...

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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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VictorOps?

My experience with Splunk On-Call pricing and licensing has been straightforward. The setup cost was minimal since it's a SaaS solution, and the subscription-based licensing model makes it easy to ...

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What needs improvement with VictorOps?

One area for improvement would be enhancing the mobile app experience. While it works well, smoother navigation and faster load times would make on-call handling even easier. More advanced analytic...

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What is your primary use case for VictorOps?

I have been using Splunk On-Call for the last three years. My main use case for Splunk On-Call is incident alerting and real-time on-call management. It helps me to route critical alerts to the rig...

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Also Known As

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VictorOps

Overview

Freshservice is an intelligent, cloud-native service management solution. It provides efficiency and agility through AI to create a contextual and intelligent experience. The solution also empowers employees to work whenever and wherever they need to work. Freshservice powers integrations and workflows at the enterprise scale, building upon an open platform and marketplace with connectors and APIs that you can extend and customize.

Freshservice Features

Freshservice has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

ITIL-aligned processes
Intelligent AI/ML capabilities
Advanced CSAT
Extensible platform
Self-service portal
Smart automations
Service catalog
Effective monitoring and alerting
Out-of-box analytics
Mobile app
Marketplace apps

Freshservice Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Freshservice. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Intelligent service management and customized workflows: Freshservice offers powered bots, automation, and orchestration to help you make management more efficient and gives you the ability to customize all workflows.

Fast time-to-value: Freshservice’s out-of-the-box features help you quickly deploy it and enable easier adoption, at scale.

Minimizes downtime: Freshservice prevents critical issues by identifying the right alerts, collaborating with context, and delivering an enhanced end-user experience.

Extensible: The solution is extensible and allows organizations to access enterprise-scale tools to customize, integrate, and automate business workflows.

Support: Freshservice has 24/7 support so your issues can be addressed around-the-clock.

Boosts productivity: The Freshservice solution helps improve employee productivity. It helps you prioritize work better with real-time custom dashboards.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Freshservice solution.

A Senior Helpdesk at a non-profit says, “I like the workflow automation capabilities, where based upon certain actions, it will automatically go and route tickets to a particular person. It is fairly user-friendly.”

PeerSpot user Cesar Q., CIO at Grupo Kasto, mentions, “The analytics are very good. The solution offers very nice incident management. The overall functionality of the product is excellent. The change management is helpful. They have an agent that we installed in every single asset. We have the inventory for all assets automatically. Contract management is very valuable for us as an IT department, as we have the information for every single computer across the company. We are starting to use the project management aspects right now. We have different projects and we have all the information in the same solution, in the same place. It makes everything more centralized and easier to access. The user interface is very nice and the solution is easy to use. You don't need to be an expert in order to navigate around and use the product. You don't need to read a lot of manuals in order to figure everything out. It's pretty intuitive.”

A Network Analyst at a real estate/law firm shares, "We find its ability to track what's going on with each request very valuable. We are also able to merge ticket requests and assign them to different groups in the company. We have another department that uses the same system."

Freshworks

Splunk On-Call offers seamless on-call scheduling and alert escalation with robust third-party integration, providing efficient incident management and resolution capabilities.

Splunk On-Call facilitates effective IT alert management by delivering on-call scheduling, alert escalation, and comprehensive integration with monitoring systems. The platform's capabilities include smooth third-party interactions and the transmogrifier feature, which enhances message customization. Users benefit from efficient alert notifications via phone or text, a user-friendly interface streamlining scheduling, and detailed timelines supporting root cause analysis. It is especially useful in IT environments where quick incident response and communication are critical. Users appreciate the aid in identifying responsible contacts during on-call rotations and deploying on-premises situations involving numerous team members.

What features enhance Splunk On-Call?

Seamless On-Call Scheduling: Organizes and simplifies duty rotations efficiently.
Effective Alert Escalation: Ensures critical issues reach the appropriate personnel swiftly.
Comprehensive Third-Party Integration: Connects easily with monitoring tools to streamline workflows.
Transmogrifier Feature: Customizes message content to improve communication clarity.
Automatic Solution Reporting: Aids in swift issue resolution through detailed reports.
Efficient Alert Notifications: Offers swift communication via phone and text notifications.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies management of schedules and overrides.

What benefits and ROI should users expect when utilizing Splunk On-Call?

Reduced Incident Response Time: Accelerates team reaction to critical alerts.
Enhanced Communication: Facilitates clearer and quicker interaction within teams.
Flexibility: Adapts to specific organizational requirements effortlessly.
Improved Root Cause Analysis: Provides comprehensive timelines and reports for deep dives.

Splunk On-Call is often implemented in IT departments of large organizations, where teams manage on-call operations and incident responses. Particularly beneficial in sectors requiring rapid reaction times, like tech companies or service providers, it aids developers in swiftly resolving service interruptions to maintain operational continuity and customer satisfaction.

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Sample Customers

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

NVIDIA, Cisco, NBC, Rackspace, Intuit, DirectTV, NASCAR, Arrow Electronics, Alliance Health, NetApp, Edmunds, New York Times, Return Path, Sony Playstation, CA Technologies, Sphero, Symantic, HBO, Weatherford, Blackboard, Epic Games

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