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We performed a comparison between Rancher Labs and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Container Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Rancher Labs vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Report (Updated: May 2024).
771,170 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access.""The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations.""The product is simple to use for a beginner.""This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy.""The scalability potential is very good.""Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool.""The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment."

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"It can monitor, get the data, and then report on the data.""The solution's basic visibility is one of its most valuable features. So, it is a solution that is easy to use...The solution's initial setup process was straightforward.""The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs.""The data collection from our VMs, containers, databases, and backend components is valuable.""The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it.""The product retains a lot of log data for subsequent analysis.""The feature I find most valuable, is the data integration.""The most valuable feature in this solution is the log searching."

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Cons
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility.""The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit.""We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default.""We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated.""I can't migrate to the newer version.""Could be more intuitive.""One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect.""If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."

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"The deployment can be quite complex.""We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features.""We have both on-prem and cloud, and the challenge is getting all our log data aggregated or streams aggregated so that it is real-time. We do a pretty good job of that, but our organization is not using it as a security platform when it can do a great job of that.""The solution's stability is an area that has room for improvement. It needs to provide constant stability to its users.""It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers.""It's a bit difficult to use. It takes some time to get into it and to get it to do what you would like it to do. It is not straightforward to use it.""Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring's data analytics can be improved by including suggestions for various types of continuous monitoring.""The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "There is an annual subscription. The price of the solution should be cheaper and have better pricing flexibility."
  • "The solution is free and open source but there is a fee for support."
  • "This is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs involved."
  • "Although Rancher Labs is an open-source solution, they also offer a paid version, where you buy the support when needed."
  • "The pricing of the solution sits in the mid range, not high and not low. It has a fixed price that you pay every month."
  • "There are no hidden charges attached to the product unless a user opts for the premium support offered by the solution."
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  • "The product is a bit expensive considering the competition but the company may negotiate the price."
  • "This is an expensive solution."
  • "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."
  • "Splunk has been fairly expensive, but it has been predictable."
  • "I would rate the price of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring as an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."
  • "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."
  • "It is expensive."
  • "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."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations.
    Top Answer:There are no hidden charges attached to the product unless a user opts for the premium support offered by the solution.
    Top Answer:Rancher Labs is currently investing in Harvester, as it is an area where improvements are required. I think that in the future, it would be a very powerful tool to compete with giant competitors like… more »
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:The clustering part of indexes can be more refined. They can cut down a bit at the monetary level for the long-time customers. We recently had a scenario where we were in discussions to see if there… more »
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    5th
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    452
    Rating
    8.6
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    Splunk Insights for Infrastructure
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    Overview

    Rancher Labs build innovative, open source software that makes it easy to deploy and manage containers in production on any infrastructure. We enable organizations to accelerate all aspects of their software development pipeline, from writing and testing code to running complex microservices-based applications.

    Rancher, our flagship container management platform, allows users to easily manage all aspects of running containers in development and production environments, on any infrastructure. With well over four million downloads, Rancher has quickly become the tools of choice for teams serious about running containers in production. This includes large enterprises such as Sony, IBM, Tyco, Align Technologies and more.

    Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers features including, Instant visualization, real-time actionable alerts, centralized enterprise controls, and scalability. 

    Instant visualization

    Get fast time to value with over 250+ cloud service integrations and pre-built dashboards out of the box for rapid, full-stack visualization. Autodiscover, break down, group, and explore clouds, services and systems in minutes.

    Real-time actionable alerts

    Act before infrastructure performance affects end-user experience. Instantly detect and accurately alerts on dynamic thresholds, multiple conditions and complex rules to eliminate alert storms and dramatically reduce MTTD/MTTR.

    Centralized, enterprise controls

    Answer business-critical questions in context and monitor service-level objectives and indicators instantly. Track custom metrics for business KPIs to token based access and usage controls.

    Scale with confidence

    Troubleshoot across thousands of microservices, multiple ephemeral deployments, application versions and billions of events. Release better apps faster and drive closed-loop automation for a flawless end-user experience.

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    Albert Heijn, Bell, BMC, Samsung, WindStream, Johnson & Johnson
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    Financial Services Firm43%
    Pharma/Biotech Company14%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Comms Service Provider27%
    Healthcare Company20%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Logistics Company13%
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    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise38%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise70%
    Buyer's Guide
    Rancher Labs vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
    May 2024
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    Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 13 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Container Management with 24 reviews. Rancher Labs is rated 8.4, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Amazon EKS and Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Amazon CloudWatch, Cisco Intersight and ITRS Geneos. See our Rancher Labs vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.

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