Goliath Performance Monitor vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

Goliath Technologies and Splunk are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Goliath Technologies is ranked #67, while Splunk is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3. Goliath Technologies holds a 0.5% mindshare in IM, compared to Splunk’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 50% of Goliath Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Splunk Observability Cloud and Goliath Performance Monitor are competing in IT monitoring solutions. Splunk holds an edge with extensive features while Goliath offers a balanced cost-capabilities combination.

Features: Splunk Observability Cloud offers robust real-time analytics, extensive dashboard customization, and scalable data handling, providing detailed visualization and alerting capabilities. Goliath Performance Monitor enables deep-dive troubleshooting, application performance analysis, and proactive monitoring, excelling in pinpointing performance issues.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Splunk Observability Cloud offers flexible deployment with extensive documentation and support channels, ensuring smooth integration. Goliath Performance Monitor simplifies installation with a guided setup and highly responsive customer support for hands-on assistance, advantageous for swift deployment and service.

Pricing and ROI: Splunk Observability Cloud presents a scalable pricing model that often involves higher initial costs but promises significant long-term ROI in larger deployments. Goliath Performance Monitor provides competitive pricing with cost-effective solutions targeting small to medium-sized enterprises for quicker ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Goliath Performance Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

67th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Splunk Observability Cloud

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (6th), Network Monitoring Software (8th), Cloud Monitoring Software (6th), Container Management (5th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Goliath Performance Monitor is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 2.1%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud	2.1%
Goliath Performance Monitor	0.5%
Other	97.4%

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networke29316

Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Monitors well with Citrix, stable, and the support is very responsive

It looks like it is easy to scale, but I don't know how far it can go out. We are only a 300, or 400 person company. We are not terribly large. It looks like it should be able to scale up until 10,000 at least. There are two users in the company who use this solution, I use it, and the helpdesk.

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Taiwo Ige

IT Operations Engineer at ABC Supply Co. Inc.

Alerting improves incident response across teams and enables faster awareness before customer impact

Splunk Observability Cloud could be improved in terms of integrations with more technical add-ons, such as Zoom. Although they have one with Zoom, it's not available in the cloud, so having that feature would be beneficial. Essentially, Splunk should continue expanding to create easier ways to ingest logs from different products. The out-of-the-box customizable dashboards in Splunk Observability Cloud are very effective in showcasing IT performance to business leaders. However, there are aspects that could be improved, such as linking dashboards to one another. While IT leaders may not drill down, it's crucial to create levels of dashboards for technical users to find root causes, making it effective for stakeholders.

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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

"I think Goliath offers a very good tool to do simulated Citrix logons with actual user accounts and that the reports are useful to monitor and debug a session."

"I like that the solution offers a diversity of things; it can give you resource monitoring, it can be integrated to detect an application crash, to capture syslog, things like that, and I like the diversity of the dashboard."

"Offers a diversity of features."

"I would definitely give them high praise for what they do, and for being a special niche product."

"My overall conclusion is that it is a valuable product for simulating Citrix logons because it does it with minimal effort and with a real user account."

"I like that it not only has the ability to monitor but that it can do a lot of specific Citrix monitoring."

"In conclusion, I think Goliath Performance Monitor is a true winner."

"My experience with this solution in analyzing machine data is really good."

"I have definitely seen a return on investment with Splunk Observability Cloud, particularly through how fast it has grown and how comfortable other teams are in relying on its outputs for monitoring and observability."

"We are now able to monitor our infrastructure and get the information in real-time should anything happen."

"I have primarily used it to go back into the past and understand why something happened. It provides enough information to do research and figure things out."

"It is a great resource for us because we have so many different data sources and to be able to aggregate that and put it through a concise dashboard or an alert really helps."

"The dashboards are the features of Splunk Observability Cloud that I appreciate the most, providing visual representation of all data and text, which has benefited my organization by speeding up people's jobs and allowing a place to monitor all logs, as there are usually thousands of entries coming in which can become very disorderly."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"It is very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments. It's like a single pane of glass for us. We can use it to monitor our on-prem and both of our cloud environments as opposed to having different tools for each environment. It makes it all come together in one tool."

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Cons

"Issues with generating reports; consistency is not there."

"The setup is a bit complex."

"I would love to be able to tell what ISP the user is coming from."

"However, its GUI can use a little help. The navigation is not the most straightforward like many other monitoring tools."

"With Goliath IT Monitors, the processing speed is very slow."

"Hardware requirements of the management server are kind of steep, 4cpu is quite a number."

"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."

"I've only experienced downtime, crashes, or performance issues when it isn't configured correctly."

"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."

"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."

"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring's data analytics can be improved by including suggestions for various types of continuous monitoring."

"The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."

"In future updates, I would like to see more predefined monitoring query solutions, which could be more effective."

"There's a lot of talk about AI-powered analytics and guidance in Splunk Observability Cloud. I didn't get a great sense of how much of it is actually working; there are a lot of AI hallucinations."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price seems reasonable."

"Splunk's infrastructure monitoring costs can be high because our billing is based on data volume measured in terabytes, rather than the number of devices being monitored."

"The product is a bit expensive considering the competition but the company may negotiate the price."

"The solution's pricing is costly."

"Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive."

"I am not in that circle, but we are currently licensing based on our queries. That is working out for us. Previously, it was by volume of data, and now, we can store as much data as we want."

"It is expensive."

"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is an expensive solution."

"The price of Splunk APM is less than some of its competitors."

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Top Industries

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Healthcare Company

17%

University

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	53

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Also Known As

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM), Splunk Synthetic Monitoring

Overview

Goliath Performance Monitor offers proactive, end-to-end IT performance monitoring for Citrix & VMware to ensure a positive end user experience. Goliath Performance Monitor provides complete support for monitoring virtual server, virtual desktop and hybrid cloud environments, and provides specialized modules for certain EMR/EHR applications and NVIDIA GRID vGPU. Goliath Performance Monitor has been architected from the ground up to help IT administrators anticipate end user experience issues, troubleshoot the root cause, and deploy remediation actions quickly before end users complain.

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Splunk Observability Cloud offers sophisticated log searching, data integration, and customizable dashboards. With rapid deployment and ease of use, this cloud service enhances monitoring capabilities across IT infrastructures for comprehensive end-to-end visibility.

Focused on enhancing performance management and security, Splunk Observability Cloud supports environments through its data visualization and analysis tools. Users appreciate its robust application performance monitoring and troubleshooting insights. However, improvements in integrations, interface customization, scalability, and automation are needed. Users find value in its capabilities for infrastructure and network monitoring, as well as log analytics, albeit cost considerations and better documentation are desired. Enhancements in real-time monitoring and network protection are also noted as areas for development.

What are the key features?

Log Searching: Efficiently search and analyze logs from various sources.
Data Integration: Seamlessly integrate with multiple environments.
Dashboard Customization: Tailor dashboards to specific monitoring needs.
Monitoring Capabilities: Provides comprehensive insights into application performance.
Security Features: Analyze and address security threats across systems.
Visualization Tools: Enhance data analysis and system performance optimization.

Why consider this for ROI?

Comprehensive Visibility: Gain complete insights into IT infrastructure.
Performance Optimization: Improve overall system performance and efficiency.
Rapid Deployment: Quick setup to meet organization demands swiftly.
Enhanced Security: Strengthen security measures through detailed analytics.

In industries, Splunk Observability Cloud is implemented for security management by analyzing logs from detection systems, offering real-time alerts and troubleshooting for cloud-native applications. It is leveraged for machine data analysis, improving infrastructure visibility and supporting network and application performance management efforts.

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Sample Customers

Walmart, Facebook, Xerox, UHS, ADP, Wyndham Worldwide

Sunrun, Yelp, Onshape, Tapjoy, Symphony Commerce, Chairish, Clever, Grovo, Bazaar Voice, Zenefits, Avalara

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