Komodor vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

Komodor and Splunk are both solutions in the Container Management category. Komodor is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.0, while Splunk is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.4. Komodor holds a 3.6% mindshare in CM, compared to Splunk’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Komodor users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

Splunk Observability Cloud and Komodor are competing in monitoring solutions. Splunk Observability Cloud is preferred for its advanced features and comprehensive data analytics capabilities, while Komodor excels in ease of deployment and enhancing operational efficiencies.

Features: Splunk Observability Cloud offers advanced data visualization, real-time monitoring, and scalability suited for large enterprises. Komodor delivers specialized insights for Kubernetes troubleshooting, speeding up resolution times. Splunk presents a broad overview, while Komodor provides focused insights on Kubernetes issues.

Room for Improvement: Splunk Observability Cloud could enhance its ease of deployment and reduce setup complexity. Greater integration options with Kubernetes-specific tools would benefit its users. Additionally, reducing setup costs could make it more accessible to smaller teams. Komodor, while excellent in Kubernetes, could broaden its monitoring capabilities for a wider range of environments. Enhancements in its real-time data analytics and visualization offerings could make it more competitive. Its support for larger enterprise environments could also be expanded.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Splunk Observability Cloud has a complex setup due to its extensive feature set but offers broad support channels. Komodor is noted for its rapid and straightforward deployment process, enabling quick integration into existing systems, with customer service recognized for providing specialized guidance for Kubernetes environments.

Pricing and ROI: Splunk Observability Cloud generally has a higher setup cost due to its rich features, but offers significant ROI through improved data analytics. Komodor presents a more accessible pricing model with lower initial costs, making it appealing to smaller projects focusing on Kubernetes and providing efficient ROI through streamlined troubleshooting.

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Komodor vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

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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

9.3

Teams using Komodor see up to 90% ROI, with cost savings and developer efficiency through self-service and integration features.

Sentiment score

6.9

Splunk Observability Cloud boosts ROI with improved efficiency, reduced downtime, faster problem resolution, and significant operational savings.

We saw around ninety percent ROI using Komodor.

reviewer2785698

Technical Solutions Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 501-1,000 employees

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

reviewer1469784

Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

9.0

Komodor offers responsive support and helpful features, but time zone differences may delay responses for West Coast teams.

Sentiment score

7.1

Splunk Observability Cloud's customer service is responsive and helpful but experiences issues with delays and limited staffing in regions.

I would rate the customer support from Komodor a ten out of ten.

reviewer2785698

Technical Solutions Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 501-1,000 employees

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

reviewer2755917

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.

Abdelmonam LABBOUZ

Splunk Observability Expert

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

9.3

Komodor generally handles scalability well across clusters, though some report performance issues with numerous nodes and clusters.

Sentiment score

7.3

Splunk Observability Cloud scales well but can be costly, requiring careful management of pricing and metric limits.

Komodor is very highly scalable in terms of infrastructure and in terms of the number of nodes we use.

reviewer2785698

Technical Solutions Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 501-1,000 employees

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

Abdelmonam LABBOUZ

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.

reviewer1469784

Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.8

Komodor is generally stable, with minor issues quickly resolved, updates improving reliability, though occasional performance delays occur.

Sentiment score

7.7

Splunk Observability Cloud offers reliable performance with minimal issues, quickly resolving occasional glitches, leading to high user satisfaction.

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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.

Abdelmonam LABBOUZ

Splunk Observability Expert

Unlike NetScout or regular agents for APM, RUM has many problems during the POC phase because customer environments vary widely.

EdwardShim

General Manager at MOCOMSYS

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Room For Improvement

Komodor needs installation upgrades, better visibility, intuitive alerts, cost analytics, system alignment, and feature integration for improved usability.

Splunk Observability Cloud needs improved integration, cost transparency, better UI, enhanced AI, customization, stability, and streamlined processes.

There are some features related to the platform that are missing in Komodor, such as Tigera status or CNI pods.

reviewer2785698

Technical Solutions Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 501-1,000 employees

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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 is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available.

Muhammad M

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

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Setup Cost

Komodor's pricing is seen as fair and flexible, benefiting startups but raising cost concerns as scale increases.

Splunk Observability Cloud is costly but offers negotiable and flexible pricing justified by its features and solutions.

Compared with Rancher or any other tools, Komodor is priced cheaply and available at a fair price.

reviewer2785698

Technical Solutions Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 501-1,000 employees

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

reviewer1469784

Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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

Ernesto Gutierrez

Solutions Architect at Ikusi

It appears to be expensive compared to competitors.

Muhammad M

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

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Valuable Features

Komodor enhances productivity by providing real-time insights, efficient debugging, and AI-assisted diagnostics, supporting quick problem identification in Kubernetes environments.

Splunk Observability Cloud offers user-friendly dashboards, AI analytics, and seamless integration, improving visibility, issue resolution, and operational performance.

One of the best features that Komodor offers is Cloud AI, which debugs all the logs and gives the exact root cause for the issue.

reviewer2785698

Technical Solutions Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 501-1,000 employees

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

reviewer1469784

Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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

Abdelmonam LABBOUZ

Splunk Observability Expert

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

Mary Vasantha Golleru

Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

Komodor

Ranking in Container Management

13th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

8.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Splunk Observability Cloud

Ranking in Container Management

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (8th), Network Monitoring Software (6th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (6th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Komodor is 3.6%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud	0.7%
Komodor	3.6%
Other	95.7%

Container Management

Featured Reviews

reviewer2785698

Technical Solutions Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 501-1,000 employees

Unified cloud workloads have become visible and teams manage kubernetes issues efficiently

This is the main task that we use Komodor for, and one additional benefit is that it is also helpful for platform and site reliability engineers to check how many clusters are up and running and how many clusters are accepting the workloads from the users. One of the best features that Komodor offers is Cloud AI, which debugs all the logs and gives the exact root cause for the issue. From there, we know we do not need an engineer who is an expert in Kubernetes to debug the issue. Cloud AI has definitely helped my team by saving time, not in a single instance but in multiple cases where we have used Cloud AI for debugging issues in the Kubernetes pods. Komodor has positively impacted our organization. Since adopting it, all the issues we faced while managing Rancher are gone, and we are seeing 100% availability for Komodor. 100% availability with Komodor means there have been improvements in uptime and productivity. For instance, when application teams want to deploy their applications, if Rancher is not up or running, the deployments usually fail at the deployment stage. In the case of Komodor, there have been no such cases reported after adopting it. We saw 100% uptime most of the time, except for some issues with AWS outages.

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Dhananjay Dileep

Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Unified monitoring has improved end-to-end visibility and reduced detection time across apps

When we have too many detectors in place for one particular app, such as when I have created 50+ detectors through my account, the entire page becomes a bit loaded when creating the 51st detector, feeling heavy and taking time to load. Additionally, it throws random errors; for example, when we try to save one detector, it might throw some random error which is not even related, with something else being wrong, not that particular error, but the underlying root cause might be different. Sometimes the error is just "some problem occurred," and we are not able to point out what the real cause is. This mainly happens when we have too many detectors or too many alerts in place rather than a standard number. One more thing is in the alert rules; if we have a main general alert, and instead of creating a new detector, we are adding a new rule under one detector, when the number of rules also increases, such as when we have 10 or 15 rules under one generic detector, that again creates the same kind of problem, taking some time to save that particular newly added rule, and it might not save at times, just keeps on spinning. Those are the two drawbacks which I spotted recently; other than that, everything looks perfect.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	2

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	47

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Also Known As

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

Overview

Komodor is the missing piece in your DevOps toolchain - offering one unified platform from which you can gain a deep understanding of all of your system events and changes. We integrate with all of your tools, monitor changes and alerts and organize information on a clear digestible dashboard and provide you with the right context at the right time.

Komodor

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

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