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We performed a comparison between ServiceNow Cloud Observability and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed ServiceNow Cloud Observability vs. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The solution Lightstep/ServiceNow has a couple of pretty advanced functionalities to help us investigate a deviation and help the development teams have better observability in the environment using distributed and complex services.""The ability to create a stream based on different parameters, operation name, service name, URL, tags, and URI part, is one valuable feature.""The UI is very intuitive."

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"The most valuable feature is the Glass Tables. It gives you a nice, good overview of your KPIs. It's really slick and clean.""ITSI includes a feature called a glass table.""One of the excellent features is the service analyzer, which is truly impressive.""The most valuable features are the agility, being able to ingest many data sources with no limitation on capacity.""Splunk Episodes are valuable because it correlates and aggregates all the information, and you do not have one million events to look at and triage, so it is quite convenient.""Customers have noted the solution helps streamline incident management.""The most valuable aspect lies in its utilization of predictive analytics to anticipate and prevent incidents within a window of twenty to thirty minutes.""The observability is great and valuable."

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Cons
"The dashboard and graphics must be improved.""The design of this solution is not very intuitive and probably could come with more friendly tips for beginners.""The support team could be better. Because of the different versions of different tactics of integrating reactive code base, the documentation is not very clear if someone has to be onboard. I would rate the documentation of Lightstep a five out of ten. It could need improvement."

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"We also faced challenges relating to UI development.""It could be a little easier to use with the thresholding. We've struggled a little bit with thresholding.""We experience occasional delays in receiving solutions from Splunk technical support. Splunk's support for P3 cases seems inadequate, as they frequently switch support personnel. For instance, in a single P3 case, we had three different technical support representatives assigned. We were ultimately forced to escalate the issue to our account manager to get it resolved. In essence, we never receive complete support from a single point of contact; instead, the support team keeps changing, necessitating us to explain the problem from scratch each time.""Quality-of-life features have room for improvement.""If the product had some prebuilt machine learning features, it would add value to our use cases.""The solution should integrate more features in NEAP.""We have problems doing upgrades and operating alternate new versions.""We'd like them to show more inputs on the dashboard."

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  • "I would prefer that the price be reduced, as it would be easier to implement it and to sell it."
  • "Splunk pricing is high."
  • "The pricing of Splunk is a bit high."
  • "Splunk ITSI is a pay-per-use service that is priced fairly based on the amount of data we use."
  • "Its pricing has been changed as per the market. You get a good support service with it as well. They have 24/7 customer support. There is a portal, and if you are having issues, they are available in order to resolve them. So, its pricing isn't too much."
  • "Splunk ITSI is expensive; however, with the appropriate use case, it justifies the cost."
  • "Splunk ITSI is an expensive tool, and we need to purchase the utility license."
  • "Pricing has some room for improvement."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The dashboard and graphics must be improved. We export the information to Grafana because it provides better visualization. The performance is a bit slow when we deal with the traces and spams to load… more »
    Top Answer:We use the product for traceability.
    Top Answer:One particularly useful feature of Splunk ITSI is the ability to create custom services.
    Top Answer:The product is expensive. It's one of the most expensive options, although maybe not as expensive as Datadog.
    Top Answer:In Splunk ITSI, thresholds automatically trigger incidents when a service value falls below the threshold. This prevents us from automatically triggering alerts for situations where the service value… more »
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    Overview

    ServiceNow Cloud Observability is a comprehensive platform designed to enhance visibility, control, and performance monitoring of your IT infrastructure and applications. It seamlessly integrates log management, trace management, metrics monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring in real-time, leveraging AI and machine learning for automated tasks and actionable insights. With benefits including improved visibility, faster incident resolution, enhanced application performance, simplified IT operations, and reduced costs, this cloud-native solution is ideal for businesses of all sizes with complex IT infrastructures. It integrates seamlessly with ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM), supports OpenTelemetry standards, and provides AI-powered insights along with pre-built dashboards and reports. 

    Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) is a powerful analytics-driven monitoring and analytics solution that provides real-time insights into the health and performance of IT services. 

    It enables organizations to proactively identify and resolve issues, optimize service delivery, and improve overall IT operations. With its advanced machine learning capabilities, ITSI automatically detects anomalies, predicts future events, and prioritizes alerts based on business impact. 

    The solution offers a centralized view of IT services, allowing users to visualize and analyze data from multiple sources in a single dashboard. ITSI also provides customizable KPIs, service-level agreements (SLAs), and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and track service performance. 

    With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics capabilities, Splunk ITSI empowers IT teams to deliver reliable and efficient services, ensuring maximum uptime and customer satisfaction.

    Sample Customers
    InVision, Twilio, Lyft, Yext, DigitalOcean,
    TransUnion, Cox Automotive, Carnival Cruises, Leidos, Econocom, National Ignition Factory, Entrust Datacard, Molina Healthcare, United States Census Bureau
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Retailer9%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm35%
    Computer Software Company18%
    Insurance Company12%
    Logistics Company12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise79%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise71%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise79%
    Buyer's Guide
    ServiceNow Cloud Observability vs. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow Cloud Observability vs. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    769,599 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    ServiceNow Cloud Observability is ranked 48th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews while Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is ranked 12th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 28 reviews. ServiceNow Cloud Observability is rated 7.4, while Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ServiceNow Cloud Observability writes "Provides effective observability and offers robust alerting and monitoring capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) writes "Provides great end-to-end visibility into our network environment and helped us reduce alert noise". ServiceNow Cloud Observability is most compared with Grafana, New Relic, Datadog, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Grafana, Dynatrace, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and Splunk APM. See our ServiceNow Cloud Observability vs. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) report.

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