Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

December 2025

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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

2.8

Users saw up to 70% savings in costs with OpenShift, benefiting security, usability, and time savings for government organizations.

Sentiment score

6.6

Splunk Observability Cloud enhances productivity, reduces downtime, boosts efficiency, and improves IT operations through real-time insights and integration.

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

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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.

Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.2

Red Hat OpenShift support receives mixed reviews, with users citing both exceptional service and delays, resulting in varied satisfaction.

Sentiment score

7.1

Splunk Observability Cloud support is praised for responsiveness, but concerns include delays, clarity issues, and high premium support costs.

They should prioritize skilled engineers for urgent issues.

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Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa

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.

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Splunk Observability Expert

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.9

Red Hat OpenShift excels in scalability and flexibility, supporting diverse environments with efficient resource management and robust support.

Sentiment score

7.1

Splunk Observability Cloud efficiently scales with business demands, but users face challenges with costs, time series limits, and metrics management.

I rate the scalability of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as a nine, as I haven't encountered any issues with scaling a cluster or applications.

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Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa

Scalability is rated nine out of ten.

reviewer1505007

It Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

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.

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

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.3

Red Hat OpenShift is stable and robust, with some bugs and dependencies on support, rated 7-9 for stability.

Sentiment score

7.6

Users rate Splunk Observability Cloud highly for stability, with minor issues rarely impacting its overall reliability and performance.

There haven't been any issues so far; it remains stable with no downtime or crashes, and even the upgrades are handled seamlessly without issues.

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Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa

When downtime occurs, it raises concerns about how we measure and receive alerts, as everything needs to be in place.

reviewer2800332

Aws Dev Ops Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Splunk Observability Expert

Room For Improvement

Red Hat OpenShift needs better security, pricing, integration, documentation, UI, automation, and features for cloud migration and management.

Users recommend enhancing Splunk Observability Cloud's security, integrations, real-time data, UI, documentation, support, and performance to improve its feature set.

The solution itself doesn't require a high learning curve; it is actually quite good to manage.

Rifat Rahman

Infrastructure Architect & CEO at Tirzok Private Limited

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the best option, but as many companies and the world are mainly looking for security purposes, the clear text format needs to be adopted instead of any third party.

Saleem Tamton

Open Shift Lead at Al Rajhi Bank

I would like to see advanced cluster management added in future releases, such as a single pane of glass to manage multiple clusters.

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Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa

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 should be a solution to update OTeL agents from Splunk Observability Cloud itself.

HrishikeshNavkar

Senior Software Engineer at WorldPay US

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Setup Cost

Red Hat OpenShift's enterprise features justify its cost for large organizations, offering flexible licensing and discounts for long-term usage.

Splunk Observability Cloud is often seen as expensive, though pricing predictability is valued compared to Dynatrace and AppDynamics.

The current licensing cost for this solution is around $23,000 per year, per month.

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Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa

Regarding whether Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is expensive or if the price is reasonable for my customers, to me, the services it provides should incur some costs, but based on market feedback, it is quite expensive.

Rifat Rahman

Infrastructure Architect & CEO at Tirzok Private Limited

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

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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

Valuable Features

Red Hat OpenShift optimizes resource management with auto-scaling, user-friendly interfaces, Kubernetes integration, and robust security for enterprises.

Splunk Observability Cloud enhances monitoring with real-time insights, AI analytics, and OpenTelemetry support, improving digital resilience and performance.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform's policy-based governance has helped my organization maintain application security at scale because ACS is also there, and Red Hat is always maintaining things with hardening methods, always coming with hardened images, and we are frequently upgrading the minor and major versions, so it will be mitigated in that way.

Saleem Tamton

Open Shift Lead at Al Rajhi Bank

It is important for critical systems.

reviewer1505007

It Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The cluster scaling features, such as the auto-scaling of cluster nodes and application replicas using horizontal and vertical pod auto-scaling, significantly impact our operations.

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Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa

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

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.

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Splunk Observability Expert

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

Mary Vasantha Golleru

Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Categories and Ranking

Red Hat OpenShift Container...

Ranking in Container Management

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

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

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is 17.7%, down from 23.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 0.8%, 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 (%)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform	17.7%
Splunk Observability Cloud	0.8%
Other	81.5%

Container Management

Featured Reviews

Consistent performance impresses users while technical support needs improvement

Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa

I definitely recommend Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to other organizations due to its high availability, security, ease of use, and all the built-in features it offers. We do no maintenance for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform since ROSA is fully managed, and that's why it is a bit more expensive than EKS. The fully managed service includes 24/7 support, scheduling, and upgrades; we only need to inform Red Hat support about upgrades, and they manage the process end to end. Overall, I rate Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as a nine; although I would say ten, I think it's important to allow room for improvement.

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Taiwo Ige

IT Operations Engineer at ABC Supply Co. Inc.

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.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	40

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	50

Questions from the Community

Which is better - OpenShift Container Platform or VMware Tanzu Mission Control?

Red Hat Openshift is ideal for organizations using microservices and cloud environments. I like that the platform is auto-scalable, which saves overhead time for developers. I think Openshift can b...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenShift Container Platform?

What needs improvement with OpenShift Container Platform?

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform needs some improvements, for example, in upgrade time, as normally, an extended upgrade method should be allowed, but sometimes if anyone clicks twice, it tries...

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 ...

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Product Reports

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

January 2026

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Splunk Observability Cloud

January 2026

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Also Known As

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

Overview

Red Hat® OpenShift® offers a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications. Benefit from streamlined platform installation and upgrades from one of the enterprise Kubernetes leaders.

Red Hat

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.

Splunk

Sample Customers

Edenor, BMW, Ford, Argentine Ministry of Health

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