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InfluxDB vs ServiceNow IT Operations Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

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
4.7
InfluxDB enhances efficiency by reducing display time and workforce needs, streamlining projects without extra licensing investments.
Sentiment score
5.6
ServiceNow IT Operations Management enhances efficiency and ROI, covering costs quickly while boosting workflow speed and asset management.
InfluxDB reduced my time to show data without any interruption, also reducing the number of people needed to manage the project; it is very good to have InfluxDB in my project.
Student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
It reduced staffing needs from four full-time staff to fewer due to automation.
Account Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.5
Users find InfluxDB forums comprehensive, but may face slow support unless using premium services; many resolve issues independently.
Sentiment score
6.2
ServiceNow IT Operations Management support is generally responsive but inconsistent, necessitating better training and process clarity.
They respond promptly when we call to open a ticket.
Chief Information Officer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
For minor issues, the team takes a month's time to provide a fix.
Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The response time of technical support could be improved.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
InfluxDB is scalable and useful for data monitoring, with mixed feedback on cost, backup, and performance at enterprise levels.
Sentiment score
7.3
ServiceNow IT Operations Management is highly praised for scalable solutions and strong performance, especially in medium to large enterprises.
The main challenge with InfluxDB, which is common with all databases, was handling very high throughput systems and high throughput message flow.
Deployment Engineer at Derq
We’ve scaled on volume with seven years of continuous data without performance degradation.
Senior System Developer at Norled
InfluxDB's scalability is fine for me; I gather a lot of metrics and have not had any issues.
Network engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
ServiceNow ITOM scales very well to small and medium businesses.
Account Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
It integrates with every single tool, even external tools.
Business analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
InfluxDB is stable and reliable, with occasional data loss, manageable with Kafka; supporting various applications efficiently.
Sentiment score
7.6
ServiceNow IT Operations Management is stable and reliable, with high ratings but occasional performance issues in complex deployments.
It serves as the backbone of our application, and its stability is crucial.
Senior System Developer at Norled
It is very stable, with no reliability or downtime in InfluxDB.
Student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
After integrating Kafka, it never broke again, as Kafka handled messages and metrics appropriately, decreasing the message throughput.
Deployment Engineer at Derq
Since it is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, I consider the stability to be very high, rating it ten out of ten.
Business analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It helps us create custom dashboards and provides excellent search functionality where we can search for any issues or errors that have occurred and take corrective action before it impacts the users.
Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

InfluxDB needs improved UI simplicity, error logging, backup capabilities, query language, clustering, documentation, performance, and security enhancements.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management faces cost, complexity, UI, integration, efficiency, and performance challenges, needing enhancements and customizations.
InfluxDB deprecated FluxQL, which was intuitive since developers are already familiar with standard querying.
Chief Technology Officer at Presta Agency
Having a SQL abstraction in InfluxDB could be beneficial, making it more accessible for teams that prefer querying with SQL-style syntax.
Senior System Developer at Norled
It could include automated backup and a monitoring solution for InfluxDB or a script developed by a REST API.
Network engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
A more streamlined configuration process tailored to use cases and industry would be beneficial.
Chief Information Officer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
It provides many out-of-the-box functionalities along with customization options.
Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
ServiceNow IT Operations Management is not very affordable for SMB customers.
Manager, Solution/Service Delivery at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

InfluxDB's pricing change to a monthly fee affects enterprise costs, while some benefit from unclear setup and licensing details.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management offers costly, customizable yearly licenses, seen as valuable for its comprehensive features despite high pricing.
We use the open-source version of InfluxDB, so it is free.
Senior System Developer at Norled
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for InfluxDB was great, as I did not use any license.
Network engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing model offers scaling where not everything consumes a license equally, providing more value across different business areas.
Account Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
ServiceNow's pricing is expensive.
Chief Information Officer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
It is definitely high-priced compared to other products available in the same domain in the market.
Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

InfluxDB offers efficient time series capabilities and integration, ideal for high-performance data analysis and visualization in various projects.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management streamlines ITSM with intuitive design, efficient process integration, real-time tracking, and seamless task management.
The most important feature for us is low latency, which is crucial in building a high-performance engine for day trading.
Chief Technology Officer at Presta Agency
InfluxDB’s core functionality is crucial as it allows us to store our data and execute queries with excellent response times.
Senior System Developer at Norled
It helps me maintain my solution easily because it is very reliable, so we didn't face any performance issues or crashes regarding our queries; we can get the results very fast.
Solutions Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The performance analytics of ServiceNow was especially beneficial for setting thresholds, aggregating, and correlating infrastructure data.
Account Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
ServiceNow IT Operations Management influences ITSM processes by automating them and aiding in detecting and resolving IT issues to improve performance, reliability, and uptime.
Business analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
They provide seamless integration of ITOM with their other modules such as ITSM, where we can leverage the AIs for discovery, perform impact analysis, which essentially helps to enhance the overall IT operations and reduce the downtime and MTTR.
Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

InfluxDB
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
21st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Non-Relational Databases (2nd), Open Source Databases (8th), Network Monitoring Software (23rd), NoSQL Databases (6th)
ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (1st), Cloud Management (10th), AIOps (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of InfluxDB is 0.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is 1.7%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
ServiceNow IT Operations Management1.7%
InfluxDB0.5%
Other97.8%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

HJ
Senior System Developer at Norled
Tracking vessel movements seamlessly with continuous data collection and query execution
We mainly write and read data from InfluxDB. We perform very simple queries to do time series on a key, which is a unique ID of the vessel. We will select a vessel and select from time to time stamp. That’s what we do. InfluxDB’s core functionality is crucial as it allows us to store our data and execute queries with excellent response times.
reviewer2755671 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Significant enhancement in operations with powerful discovery and analytics, yet pricing structure poses challenges
ServiceNow IT Operations Management provides out-of-the-box dashboards. Along with the dashboard, it also provides the Operations Workspace, which is very useful for operations teams. There is a functionality called Performance Analytics, which we are also using to develop some dashboards for the senior leadership and operations team where they can perform trend analysis of alerts and events happening across the infrastructure and application landscape. These dashboards are really useful here. ServiceNow IT Operations Management's biggest plus point is that it is a platform. ITOM is just one module that ServiceNow IT Operations Management offers, but they provide seamless integration of ITOM with their other modules such as ITSM, where we can leverage the AIs for discovery, perform impact analysis, which essentially helps to enhance the overall IT operations and reduce the downtime and MTTR.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
9%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise27
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about InfluxDB?
InfluxDB is a database where you can insert data. However, it would be best if you had different components for alerting, data sending, and visualization. You need to install tools to collect data ...
What needs improvement with InfluxDB?
Although I didn't encounter any significant challenges, I think that if there was a NoSQL version of InfluxDB, that would also help because I have used the SQL version. I wish InfluxDB were also av...
What is your primary use case for InfluxDB?
My main use case for InfluxDB involved working on a LEO satellite KPI monitoring application, where I gathered latency, throughput, packet loss, jitter, and various types of network data for severa...
What do you like most about ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
From my perspective as an asset manager, the most valuable feature of the solution is the configuration management portion, where I can actively add something to the database.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
It is definitely high-priced compared to other products available in the same domain in the market.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
ServiceNow IT Operations Management has not been very popular in these regions for multiple reasons. One is that for SMB customers, ServiceNow IT Operations Management is not very affordable. It is...
 

Also Known As

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ServiceNow ITOM
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

ebay, AXA, Mozilla, DiDi, LeTV, Siminars, Cognito, ProcessOut, Recommend, CATS, Smarsh, Row 44, Clustree, Bleemeo
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