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NetCrunch vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 19, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

NetCrunch
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
81st
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
64th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Server Monitoring (28th), Log Management (70th)
Splunk Observability Cloud
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
6th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (8th), Cloud Monitoring Software (7th), Container Management (6th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of NetCrunch is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Monitoring Software
 

Featured Reviews

RP
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.
Lakshmi Padaga - PeerSpot reviewer
Collaborates performance metrics with log data to pinpoint the exact cause of issues and offers error detection
Splunk APM is a robust tool with many capabilities. There are always areas for potential improvement to enhance its functionality and user experience. For Splunk APM, there could be simplified navigation, like streamlining the user interface to make navigation more intuitive for our users, especially those new to APM, which can enhance usability. We can provide more customization options for dashboards and visualizations to help users tailor the platform to their specific needs. There could be more integration capabilities with a wider range of third-party tools and platforms would also be beneficial. By focusing on these areas, Splunk APM can enhance its value proposition, improve user satisfaction, and better meet the evolving needs of organizations monitoring their application performance.

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."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I find the monitoring console very helpful. With one click, I can see how we are performing, and at the same time, I can see what data is flowing."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"I manage six tools, but Splunk Observability Cloud is one of my favorites, and I aspire to build my career specializing in it because it has great features, more attention in the market, and is a relatively new tool with promising growth."
"It can monitor, get the data, and then report on the data."
"The ability to create custom dashboards is one of the best features and that's typically why most people deploy Splunk. Users can create dashboards for just about anything."
"It has been beneficial for our IT infrastructure."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
 

Cons

"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
"They need more EDR functionalities."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"Technical support is good but could be improved, particularly concerning the time taken for ticket resolution."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"A wide variety of logging makes log onboarding difficult."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"The price has room for improvement."
"The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"This is an expensive solution."
"Splunk's infrastructure monitoring costs can be high because our billing is based on data volume measured in terabytes, rather than the number of devices being monitored."
"Splunk has been fairly expensive, but it has been predictable."
"Splunk APM is expensive."
"Splunk can be expensive, as its licensing is based on the daily data ingestion volume."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Splunk APM is a very cost-efficient solution."
"Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Agriculture
11%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Educational Organization
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
7%
Retailer
7%
 

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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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Sample Customers

AER Kooperation, AON Corpration, Advance Financial services, Airbus SAS, Bauer Net consult, Banco Soal, Bertelsmann, Burke County public, COF training services
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