Gremlin Reliability Management Platform vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

Gremlin Reliability Management Platform vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

April 2026

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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

6.7

Gremlin Platform cut testing staff, reduced errors, improved uptime, and increased efficiency with 30% fewer production issues.

Sentiment score

6.5

Splunk Observability Cloud boosts efficiency, reduces costs, enhances performance, and improves work-life balance with streamlined workflows and quick problem resolution.

We are seeing a return on investment from using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform because we are getting less production issues by thirty percent, as I mentioned earlier, making it a great investment.

DEVOPS specialist at a media company with 10,001+ employees

We do not need to look at all the day's metrics on Grafana dashboards; we run our chaos experiments in a production environment to see how reliable our product or service is.

DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees

If we needed ten people to do tests once upon a time, now, using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we can do it with a fifty percent reduction in employees.

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Senior Software Engineer at a sports company with 10,001+ employees

Using Splunk has saved my organization about 30% of our budget compared to using multiple different monitoring products.

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Senior Manager at Bank of America

Anyone working in front-end management should recognize the market price to see the true value of end-user monitoring.

EdwardShim

General Manager at MOCOMSYS

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.

Taiwo Ige

IT Operations Engineer at ABC Supply Co. Inc.

Customer Service

Sentiment score

8.4

Gremlin's customer support is highly praised for responsiveness, effective solutions, and valuable subscription models, enhancing overall customer satisfaction.

Sentiment score

7.1

Users commend Splunk Observability Cloud's support for responsiveness and expertise, though some note improvement needed in speed and resources.

When I have questions or run into issues with Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, their support team is helpful and responsive.

DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees

The expert partnership model is a significant strength I can suggest for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform.

Ravi Konduru

VP Global at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The customer support for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is good overall.

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DEVOPS specialist at a media company with 10,001+ employees

On a scale of 1 to 10, the customer service and technical support deserve a 10.

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Systems Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

They have consistently helped us resolve any issues we've encountered.

Juan Baez

Software Engineer at UKG

They often require multiple questions, with five or six emails to get a response.

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Splunk Observability Expert

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Gremlin's platform scales well on AWS and GCP, smoothly supporting chaos experiments and larger teams with positive user experiences.

Sentiment score

7.1

Splunk Observability Cloud excels in scalability and data handling, but may be costly and challenging for custom metrics.

Gremlin Reliability Management Platform scales smoothly for running more chaos experiments, adding more services, or supporting a larger team.

DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees

More than scalability, I thought about availability because it is a really important thing of the architecture tools.

Dev Ops To Development (IT) at a non-tech company with self employed

The scalability of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform depends on the scalability of the underlying infrastructure that we are hosting it on.

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Senior Software Engineer at a sports company with 10,001+ employees

We've used the solution across more than 250 people, including engineers.

Splunk Observability Expert

As we are a growing company transitioning all our applications to the cloud, and with the increasing number of cloud-native applications, Splunk Observability Cloud will help us achieve digital resiliency and reduce our mean time to resolution.

Lalatendu Swain

Application Developer at UMB Financial

I would rate its scalability a nine out of ten.

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Senior Manager at Bank of America

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

9.2

The Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is praised for its stability and reliability, with users highlighting its dependable performance.

Sentiment score

7.6

Splunk Observability Cloud is generally reliable with minor issues, praised for stable real-time monitoring and responsive support.

I have not seen any downtime or issues with its behavior or performance.

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Senior Software Engineer at a sports company with 10,001+ employees

When downtime occurs, it raises concerns about how we measure and receive alerts, as everything needs to be in place.

reviewer2800332

Aws Dev Ops Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I would rate its stability a nine out of ten.

Muhammad M

Head of DevOps at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We rarely have problems accessing the dashboard or the page.

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Splunk Observability Expert

Room For Improvement

The Gremlin Reliability Platform requires AI enhancements, better integration, user-friendly features, and more educational resources to improve usability and value.

Splunk Observability Cloud requires enhancements in pricing, integration, UI, search, support, and smarter alerting to improve user experience.

I think it would be useful to have some integration with Splunk or other log collectors, or maybe in the future, the ability to link Dynatrace or any other observability platform.

Dev Ops To Development (IT) at a non-tech company with self employed

If we can integrate it with natural language, could we talk to Gremlin Reliability Management Platform and have it configure some of the basic settings so that non-technical persons can also work on Gremlin Reliability Management Platform-like tools?

DEVOPS specialist at a media company with 10,001+ employees

The user interface is great, the integration is smooth, and Gremlin Reliability Management Platform has a fantastic support team that helps us a lot in many cases.

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DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees

The out-of-the-box customizable dashboards in Splunk Observability Cloud are very effective in showcasing IT performance to business leaders.

Taiwo Ige

IT Operations Engineer at ABC Supply Co. Inc.

The next release of Splunk Observability Cloud should include a feature that makes it so that when looking at charts and dashboards, and also looking at one environment regardless of the product feature that you're in, APM, infrastructure, RUM, the environment that is chosen in the first location when you sign into Splunk Observability Cloud needs to stay persistent all the way through.

Sarah Van Zee

Systems Monitoring Engineer II at a government with 10,001+ employees

There should be a solution to update OTeL agents from Splunk Observability Cloud itself.

HrishikeshNavkar

Senior Software Engineer at WorldPay US

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Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers find Gremlin costly yet valuable for large-scale systems, though pricing and dashboard clarity vary by company.

Splunk Observability Cloud's features justify its high costs, though users seek cost-efficiency improvements despite flexible licensing.

It is not so cheap, but it has very powerful features.

Dev Ops To Development (IT) at a non-tech company with self employed

From a pricing standpoint of view regarding Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, I would say it is a bit expensive, but that expense is worth it given the kind of benefits it offers.

Ravi Konduru

VP Global at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

My role does not incur costs for us since we have an NFR for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform that we can use in our case.

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DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees

Splunk is a bit expensive since it charges based on the indexing rate of data.

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Senior Manager at Bank of America

It is expensive, especially when there are other vendors that offer something similar for much cheaper.

Ernesto Gutierrez

Solutions Architect at Ikusi

I can confidently say our availability improved by forty percent, and downtime was reduced by approximately seventy to eighty percent.

Jigar Hirani

Splunk Engineer at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Valuable Features

Gremlin's platform improves reliability with automated tests, failure simulations, risk detection, flexibility, and measurable infrastructure resilience.

Splunk Observability Cloud enhances performance with real-time metrics, AI analytics, and customizable dashboards for comprehensive monitoring and visibility.

There are really two pathways along: fewer incidents because with Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we can make every part of the infrastructure more solid, and less downtime because we can test more architectures and then things like how to put in high availability clusters.

Dev Ops To Development (IT) at a non-tech company with self employed

We fix failures even before they occur, which is basically proactive risk detection and risk mitigation.

Ravi Konduru

VP Global at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The best feature that Gremlin Reliability Management Platform offers for me is the prebuilt reliability test; I think that is the best feature along with the automated scheduling.

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DEVOPS specialist at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Splunk provides advanced notifications of roadblocks in the application, which helps us to improve and avoid impacts during high-volume days.

Senior Manager at Bank of America

For troubleshooting, we can detect problems in seconds, which is particularly helpful for digital teams.

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Splunk Observability Expert

It offers unified visibility for logs, metrics, and traces.

Mary Vasantha Golleru

Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Categories and Ranking

Gremlin Reliability Managem...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

23rd

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

25th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

DevSecOps (7th)

Splunk Observability Cloud

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

7th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (6th), Container Management (5th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is 0.1%. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 2.3%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud	2.3%
Gremlin Reliability Management Platform	0.1%
Other	97.6%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Chaos experiments have revealed weak points and now provide controlled cost-saving tests

Senior Software Engineer at a sports company with 10,001+ employees

The best features of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform are the safe failure injection, which is crucial as we can simulate the failures in a manner that we know these are just dumping tests and not the actual issues. Whether it is the CPU spike or the memory exhaustion, or the network latency, or the server shutdown, server shutdown is one of the most favorite features that I have in Gremlin Reliability Management Platform. The controlled blast radius is another standout feature. The controlled blast radius feature has helped my team in that we actually wanted to target only one specific container, our Docker containers that we deployed. It helped us to conduct tests in a very specific, isolated manner instead of launching a larger test or focusing on hundreds of servers at a time, resulting in very limited impact. Since ours is a very small team, we do not want to impact other servers. This controlled blast radius helped us to only focus on our servers and not impact any other team. Gremlin Reliability Management Platform has positively impacted my organization because before Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we did not even know how to conduct these chaos engineering tests. We heard about it, but we had no idea of how to do something of that nature. If there are ten servers, ten systems in our architecture and if suddenly something goes down, nobody knew what would happen next. We did not even know how to simulate these types of tests. This lack of confidence has been mitigated by using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform. Now we can confidently test and see which system is the most critical. If this goes down, what happens? How much business valuation are we going to impact? How much loss are we going to incur? All of this is now clearly visible and transparent. Since using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we were able to reduce the incidents by six percent after conducting our limited experiments. We were also able to increase the uptime from ninety-eight to ninety-nine, which represents a one percent increase in uptime.

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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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Printing Company

11%

Construction Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Sports Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	30
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	55

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Gremlin Reliability Management Platform?

There are certain areas where I think Gremlin Reliability Management Platform can improve. I would certainly add features related to AI and GenAI for recommendations. While dependency identificatio...

What is your primary use case for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform?

The primary reason I am using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is to proactively test failures, identify weaknesses in my system, and fix them before real incidents actually occur. From a pr...

What advice do you have for others considering Gremlin Reliability Management Platform?

I would certainly suggest others venture into Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, as there is no second thought about it. However, I would not recommend jumping straight into production chaos....

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Splunk Observability Cloud

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Also Known As

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

Overview

Gremlin Reliability Management Platform empowers organizations to proactively identify and mitigate potential failures. It enhances system resilience through controlled chaos engineering, aiding tech teams in delivering reliable services.

Designed for tech-savvy users, Gremlin enables teams to implement chaos engineering effectively to ensure system reliability. It offers precise control over variables, allowing teams to simulate real-world scenarios and fortify system operations. Gremlin plays a strategic role in preventing downtime and maintaining optimal service delivery through a suite of advanced tools tailored for IT infrastructure.

What are the most important features of Gremlin?

Attack Library: Offers diverse failure scenarios for comprehensive testing.
Security Control: Ensures safe execution of tests with access restrictions.
Detailed Reporting: Provides insights into system weaknesses and improvements.
API Access: Facilitates automation and integration with existing systems.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Increased Uptime: Improved system availability through proactive testing.
Cost Efficiency: Reduced need for corrective measures post-failure.
Team Collaboration: Enhances coordination among IT and operations teams.
Product Reliability: More robust and reliable service delivery to clients.

In industries such as e-commerce, finance, and healthcare, Gremlin helps maintain service reliability by identifying vulnerabilities before they affect operations. IT teams can simulate stress tests specific to their industry, ensuring systems are resilient against potential threats, enhancing customer satisfaction, and securing business continuity.

Gremlin

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

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