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Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Solarwinds Web Performance ...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
33rd
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Observability Cloud
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (7th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (6th), Container Management (6th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 2.3%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud2.3%
Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor0.3%
Other97.4%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Yaser_Altwailey - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at General Authority OF ZAKAT & TAX
Reliable monitoring has supported synthetic transactions and improved visibility for government operations
We do not have any issues with Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor, and we do not have any complaints about the performance. Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor is overall good regarding synthetic transaction monitoring and data virtualization. I would rate Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor a 10 out of 10 based on our experience.
Taiwo Ige - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Everything is functioning well, the interface is intuitive and understandable, easy to read, to access utilization files and reports."
"The solution monitors attacks or unauthorized access to the information we want to protect."
"After moving to Splunk Observability Cloud, it is almost zero downtime."
"The alerts are the most valuable feature."
"The product retains a lot of log data for subsequent analysis."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"Splunk APM helps us to find errors immediately and resolve them."
"The dashboards are the features of Splunk Observability Cloud that I appreciate the most, providing visual representation of all data and text, which has benefited my organization by speeding up people's jobs and allowing a place to monitor all logs, as there are usually thousands of entries coming in which can become very disorderly."
"I have primarily used it to go back into the past and understand why something happened. It provides enough information to do research and figure things out."
 

Cons

"Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor needs to improve maintenance and support."
"The solution's machine learning deployment is hard and should be made user-friendly."
"There's no standard use case available where you can see the utilization of the number of use cases I have."
"The only strain point we've encountered with Splunk Observability Cloud is that the search times can be lengthy for some things."
"There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"The price has room for improvement."
"To improve Splunk Observability Cloud, we need more applications to be included in the observability so that more applications can have agents to monitor them and bring that information to the cloud."
"This solution is difficult to configure and the instructions are complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable."
"The pricing is based on several factors, including the scale of deployment."
"The price of Splunk APM is less than some of its competitors."
"It appears to be expensive compared to competitors."
"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."
"The pricing is reasonable."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise50
 

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Also Known As

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

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