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We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Datalab and Splunk Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Google Cloud Datalab vs. Splunk Cloud Platform Report (Updated: March 2024).
771,157 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The APIs are valuable.""In MLOps, when we are designing the data pipeline, the designing of the data pipeline is easy in Google Cloud.""All of the features of this product are quite good.""The infrastructure is highly reliable and efficient, contributing to a positive experience.""Google Cloud Datalab is very customizable."

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"The ability to correlate data and then present it in a meaningful and valuable way is crucial.""The most valuable feature is we don't have to deal with any back-end server maintenance because the solution is cloud-based.""The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud is the quick setup.""It has end-to-end visibility into our cloud-native environment, which is pretty important for us. About 80% of our infrastructure is on AWS.""Dashboards and alerting are the most valuable features. The dashboards let us see how the system looks in terms of anomalies, and the alerts trigger us to go and look at what possible problems are happening.""Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable.""It's made searching for data easier. Users like it. We're still in the migration process, but overall, it's a lot easier to use.""The Splunk Cloud Platform has reduced our mean time to resolve. It has easily saved 20 to 30 minutes every time someone gets locked out. We get 10 or 15 instances per day where people get locked out. It definitely saves a few hours per day."

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Cons
"We have also encountered challenges during our transition period in terms of data control and segmentation. The management of each channel and data structure as it has its own unique characteristics requires very detailed and precise control. The allocation should be appropriate and the complexity increases due to the different time zones and geographic locations of our clients. The process usually involves migrating the existing database sets to gcp and ensure data integrity is maintained. This is the only challenge that we faced while navigating the integers of the solution and honestly it was an interesting and unique experience.""The product must be made more user-friendly.""Connectivity challenges for end-users, particularly when loading data, environments, and libraries, need to be addressed for an enhanced user experience.""The interface should be more user-friendly.""There is room for improvement in the graphical user interface. So that the initial user would use it properly, that would be a good option."

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"They need to provide more training options.""Splunk should increase the frequency of new feature releases, particularly those related to real-time operational flow monitoring and analytics reporting.""There is sometimes no documentation or updated documentation available.""The only thing that is missing from Splunk Cloud is the command-line interface.""Customization could be simplified.""The dashboards should be easier to customize.""When one of my customers needs an app, and I am able to find that app on the Splunk base, I have to create a ticket and wait for five days for them to download the app into the cloud environment. That is probably one of the main things. It is painful because I have to wait to get that app in the cloud.""The Splunk Cloud Platform dashboard could benefit from some improvements."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is affordable for us because we have a limited number of users."
  • "The pricing is quite reasonable, and I would give it a rating of four out of ten."
  • "The product is cheap."
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  • "The licensing is based on the amount of data that we send to the cloud on a daily basis."
  • "The price is something that people complain about."
  • "The licensing costs depend on the state of your environment and the fees are paid on a monthly basis."
  • "The pricing model makes this an expensive solution."
  • "There are additional features that you would need to purchase depending on your use case."
  • "The cost of using Splunk Cloud Platform is high, but the value it provides is worth the investment."
  • "I am familiar with the pricing and licensing model a little bit. I am not sure about the particulars of the actual price that we have, but I do like the idea of going towards a more CPU-based approach rather than the ingest approach because it allows us the ability to ingest more data if we need it."
  • "It is a touchy subject because we are locked into it. That goes back to the rehydrating data. We cannot have the retention that we want to store for legal and compliance purposes because that is seven years' worth of data for some of the indexes, so we ship them off into S3 buckets and install them there, at which point they are invisible to Splunk, so we have to rehydrate them, but we cannot rehydrate those pockets into Splunk Cloud. We have to rehydrate them into a self-hosted version of Splunk, which can take days to set up and get going. I would not call Splunk's licensing and pricing predatory, but they have made it very difficult to maintain the independence of your own data."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Google Cloud Datalab is very customizable.
    Top Answer:We have also encountered challenges during our transition period in terms of data control and segmentation. The management of each channel and data structure as it has its own unique characteristics… more »
    Top Answer:Our main use cases involve transferring workloads from AWS and Univision to Google Cloud Datalab. Before coming to the setting we utilised Google Datalab for looker and handling separated tables for… more »
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:Splunk is a bit pricey, but it's reasonable for the features offered.
    Top Answer:Sometimes, integrating with other systems is difficult, and it isn't feasible to connect with other applications, but it's easy most of the time. I rate Splunk 7 out of 10 for its ability to integrate… more »
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    Overview

    Cloud Datalab is a powerful interactive tool created to explore, analyze, transform and visualize data and build machine learning models on Google Cloud Platform. It runs on Google Compute Engine and connects to multiple cloud services easily so you can focus on your data science tasks.

    Splunk Cloud is the industry’s only enterprise-ready cloud service for machine data, offering a 100% uptime SLA and standard plans from 5GB/day to 5TB/day. Watch this video to find out how you can accelerate time-to-value and stay focused on your core business using Splunk Cloud.

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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Educational Organization11%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Pharma/Biotech Company8%
    Government8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise67%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise66%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
    Buyer's Guide
    Google Cloud Datalab vs. Splunk Cloud Platform
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Google Cloud Datalab vs. Splunk Cloud Platform and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Google Cloud Datalab is ranked 20th in Data Visualization with 5 reviews while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 36 reviews. Google Cloud Datalab is rated 7.6, while Splunk Cloud Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Datalab writes "Easy to setup, stable and easy to design data pipelines". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". Google Cloud Datalab is most compared with Databricks, IBM SPSS Statistics, Cloudera Data Science Workbench, KNIME and Qlik Sense, whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, AppInsights and Check Point Security Management. See our Google Cloud Datalab vs. Splunk Cloud Platform report.

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