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Rootly vs Splunk Enterprise Platform comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Rootly
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Platform
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Rootly is 3.6%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Platform is 2.7%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Platform2.7%
Rootly3.6%
Other93.7%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

HJ
Manager at teshama
Seamless Slack incidents have standardized my workflows and have streamlined post mortems
Slack-based workflow in Rootly helps my team during incidents by simplifying incident management and workflows, easing writing post-mortems, supporting planned maintenance, and offering valuable team support for migration and training. It's streamlining our incident management process overall, and having everything automated and flexible is extremely valuable through automations. The best features Rootly offers are all-in-one incident management and an intuitive user-friendly GUI. I find the user interface highly intuitive because it's very easy to customize and navigate, even for new users, hence making the learning curve very comfortable and smooth. Rootly is very valuable, especially because it's very cost-effective. It's also very easy to use, and it has a very proactive and supportive customer support team. I have seen a return on investment as Rootly has made interactions smoother and more efficient. The speed of Rootly makes my work more productive.
Vikas Pandita - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Head Of Security Architecture Digital & Technology at Aramex
Centralized analytics have transformed noc and soc operations and deliver faster threat response
Splunk Enterprise Platform's most valuable features include its integration with AI, as Cisco, which has taken Splunk Enterprise Platform recently, is building up AI functionalities, enhancing remediation capabilities and the orchestration part in the market. Additionally, Splunk Enterprise Platform shows the correct logs at the correct time, and inventory management is very good. I assess the effectiveness of Splunk Enterprise Platform in detecting anomalies and preventing system outages as very strong; for over two to three decades, it has provided centralized log visibility, real-time monitoring, and analytics correlation, which is robust for threat detection and incident investigation. Splunk Enterprise Platform's machine learning capability of the toolkit predicts trends and reduces many false positives, making Splunk Enterprise Platform an essential tool for both SOC and network operations, where it effectively detects anomalies that other SIEM tools cannot. Splunk Enterprise Platform's personalized dashboards are superb, as I have been experimenting with them extensively, and new features have enhanced their quality, making them particularly effective for presentations to leadership, including direct engagement with the CISO.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Rootly has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to receive the on-call alerts successfully, whereas before Rootly, we had issues missing alerts."
"Rootly has positively impacted our organization because, in comparison to ObsGenie, the tool we used before Rootly, it is much more user-friendly, including the user interface and the whole approach to alerting and routing these alerts."
"Rootly is very valuable, especially because it's very cost-effective, very easy to use, and it has a very proactive and supportive customer support team."
"With the strategic approach of putting everyone in a Slack group to resolve incidents, we have reduced the percentage of incidents created in a month by thirty percent during the first three months of using Rootly."
"Splunk Enterprise Platform has the Search Processing Language, which is the query language for the product, and the advantage is that I can log and monitor all of the microservices in a single location."
"The platform has a powerful search engine, allowing the integration of custom AI such as ChatGPT, and it also has Phantom as a SOAR, which is more refined and gives more accurate results than any other AI integrated SIM tool."
"Otherwise, the overall product is good, its features, its customizability, and scalability are all excellent."
"I consider Splunk to be one of the best solutions available compared to other options."
"Splunk Enterprise Platform has a vast and versatile powerful search engine with which I can handle all queries, and creating use cases and the search and dashboard is the main selling point, allowing me to visualize live dashboards."
"Splunk Enterprise Platform can be used for security, IT monitoring, and observability."
"When I talk about Splunk Enterprise Platform, I can say that Splunk Enterprise Platform is, whatever the tool I have worked from my last eight, nine years of experience in my overall corporate journey, a very powerful tool where I can customize everything as per my requirement."
"The product is very easy to use."
 

Cons

"Rootly can be improved as it's slightly buggy for new features."
"The integration process could be easier, perhaps with the addition of AI to facilitate smoother integrations with other applications, especially since those who manage integrations often need technical knowledge about web services and single sign-on processes, which can be challenging for non-technical users."
"Regarding Rootly's AI capabilities, we had one incident when we lost alerting generally because Rootly crashed, and we did not like it."
"he product's initial setup phase needs to be made easy since it looks like it is very complex compared to the other tools in the market."
"Pricing is an area that needs improvement, as it is considered high."
"There is room for improvement in introducing more AI capabilities onto Splunk Enterprise Platform."
"The tool lacked in providing a shareable format. I had to use pivot tables and manually parse and edit the data to create a visualization-friendly format. It was helpful when we had an issue. What would make it stronger is if it were more proactive. For example, if it highlighted major incidents and their impact on users without digging through notifications, that would be better. Typically, the first question we get is, "Oh, we had an incident. How bad was it? How many customers were impacted?" So having that information pop up from the notification would be helpful."
"The Splunk Enterprise Platform has room for improvement, particularly in automating the permissions process during app promotions. Currently, permissions are manually set when different teams request an application move to production, which is time-consuming. Automating this process would streamline operations by automatically assigning the appropriate permissions and roles to specific services or teams, reducing the need to review each request ticket manually."
"The only problem I have with Splunk Enterprise Platform is that sometimes when I update a review, it takes time to receive confirmation emails."
"One area where Splunk Enterprise Platform can be improved is that the underlying search architecture is not up to the mark compared to something Elastic."
"For improvement, I do see a lot of issues with Splunk support, particularly with response times."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I rate the product's pricing a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. It is a very pricey tool."
"The product is expensive, and the cost depends on the amount of data ingestion."
"I have heard from my managers that Splunk Enterprise Platform is an expensive solution."
"The solution is expensive, so I rate its pricing a four out of ten."
"The tool is expensive."
"There are yearly payments to be made towards the licensing costs attached to the solution."
"The solution’s pricing is moderate."
"Splunk Enterprise Platform is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Performing Arts
28%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Transportation Company
7%
Wholesaler/Distributor
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise31
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rootly?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, we got a license for one year. Generally, it is great and the price is great, and that is the reason we chose Rootly. The only thing...
What needs improvement with Rootly?
Regarding improvements for Rootly, first of all, it would be great to make comfortable maintenance mode, as it does not let me silence alerting comfortably. This is one of a very small list of poin...
What is your primary use case for Rootly?
Rootly is our central system for on-call and alert management. We route alerts from Alertmanager to Rootly, and after that, we route alerts from Rootly to different teams that are in charge of the ...
What needs improvement with Splunk Enterprise Platform?
A major factor I dislike about Splunk Enterprise Platform is the cost. Since the cost is based on data ingestion or the volume of data, large logs or large volumes of logs sometimes increase the RO...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Enterprise Platform?
I mainly work on log management and observability for our platforms. We use Splunk Enterprise Platform for the collection of logs and primarily for the observability of dashboards related to incide...
What advice do you have for others considering Splunk Enterprise Platform?
Splunk Enterprise Platform does not require any maintenance on our end since it is a cloud-based system, so I do not think we require any maintenance for that. My impression of Splunk Enterprise Pl...
 

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Sample Customers

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