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NetCrunch vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 21, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

NetCrunch
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
79th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
64th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Server Monitoring (30th), Log Management (69th)
Splunk Observability Cloud
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
6th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
71
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (8th), Cloud Monitoring Software (8th), Container Management (6th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of NetCrunch is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud1.2%
NetCrunch0.4%
Other98.4%
Network Monitoring Software
 

Featured Reviews

it_user1038504 - PeerSpot reviewer
A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better
The initial setup is fairly easy. Most of it's wizard-based. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to set it up. But if you don't know certain things related to protocols and everything else, it might be difficult. If you know how SNMP works, it'll be fairly simple to set up.
Taiwo Ige - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"Dashboards help the application support teams to have a quick look at how their systems are running. It helps other teams as well."
"The most valuable features include user time tracking and the ability to analyze application load times."
"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."
"It supports proactive management, enhances security, and improves operational efficiency."
"The best feature of this product is the latency and processing of all the telemetry that is being received, which gives full visibility at the right time."
"The solution monitors attacks or unauthorized access to the information we want to protect."
"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."
"We haven't really experienced any glitches or bugs."
 

Cons

"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
"The integrations need to be improved for Splunk Observability Cloud."
"Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns."
"I've only experienced downtime, crashes, or performance issues when it isn't configured correctly."
"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"There is not a lot of support for the tool's on-premises version, especially since everything is on the cloud."
"Technical support is good but could be improved, particularly concerning the time taken for ticket resolution."
"It would be beneficial to have more enhanced features with capabilities to adapt more integrated applications. Improvements in dashboard configuration, customization, and artificial intelligence functionalities are desired."
"The solution's machine learning deployment is hard and should be made user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution's pricing is costly."
"The solution's pricing is competitive. I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten. The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"The price of Splunk APM is less than some of its competitors."
"Splunk APM is expensive."
"This is an expensive solution."
"Splunk has been fairly expensive, but it has been predictable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
13%
Agriculture
11%
Educational Organization
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise43
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about SignalFx?
The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.
What needs improvement with SignalFx?
Regarding dashboard customization, while Splunk has many dashboard building options, customers sometimes need to create specific dashboards, particularly for applicative metrics such as Java and pr...
What is your primary use case for SignalFx?
The solution involves observability in general, such as Application Performance Monitoring, and generally addresses digital applications, web applications, sites, and mobile applications. I worked ...
 

Also Known As

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

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