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Splunk Cloud Platform vs Splunk On-Call comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Splunk Cloud Platform
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (2nd)
Splunk On-Call
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
12th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Splunk Cloud Platform is 1.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk On-Call is 4.7%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

Ian Gatundu - PeerSpot reviewer
It improves our visibility and decision-making while helping us meet compliance standards
The Cloud Platform interface is cleaner than Splunk Enterprise's monitoring console. You can easily understand what's happening with your indexes. It's more refined than Splunk Enterprise's console, but they have the same feel and function. It's easy to monitor multiple cloud environments because you can create custom dashboards for any use case you may have. It offers good visibility because it integrates with the ITSI app, providing a clear overview of your environment. Integrating Splunk with other components on the cloud and network resources is effortless because it can collect data from various sources, including stored data from long-term storage. Splunk's reporting offers a good visualization of your data. You can visualize the statistics based on your searches. It produces some helpful graphs that enable you to easily compare what's happening in your search. It's very comprehensive.
Wojtek Witowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Allows us to create flexible schedules for on-call rotations
For alerts, we could choose to get a text message, app notification, or a phone call. The phone calls were very unusable, because it just read a bunch of numbers, like an ID of the alert. If there was a way to customize the phone call message, that would be great. Later, we would try to read the message, but it wasn't great at reading that. They had some sort of internal chat functionality where if we got an alert, we could write to somebody else and ask them for help, but that was super cumbersome. There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert. Imagine you call the help desk and you say that your computer is broken and then they say, "Actually, the internet is broken, so let us forward your alerts to the network people." And the network people say, "Actually, the electricity is the problem, so let us forward it to the electricity people." Basically, you could send the alert between the support teams inside the company.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Previously when in our company, we had logs everywhere on multiple systems, it was a really big pain for me trying to find what I wanted. Now that it is all aggregated and centralized in one place with one interface, it is just a lot easier to get the information that I need."
"Not having to maintain any infrastructure is valuable. That frees up a lot of time as well."
"Everything is maintained by the Splunk support team. Users do not have to maintain any physical servers. They do not have to maintain indexes and searches. It reduces a lot of work on the user side."
"We haven't had any limitations or problems connecting to our network devices."
"As compared to other tools, it is very easy. It is very easy to learn. It also integrates well."
"The Splunk search is powerful compared to similar solutions. We get millions of data points within seconds."
"For my current requirements, the tool theme seems to be meeting my requirements, from a cost and requirements perspective."
"The ability to correlate data and then present it in a meaningful and valuable way is crucial."
"The alert calling feature is the best because notifications are delivered via phone messages."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is helpdesk escalation."
"VictorOps has been good enough for us and it's effective for our needs in case of an on-call escalation process."
"The flexible schedule is the most valuable feature. It was very easy to set out a rotation."
"Transmogrifier and automatic solution report gives me a report with the solution and the way to solve issues when an error occurred."
 

Cons

"I want to have the ability to process the ingestion before it is sent to the back end and Splunk just announced that the feature is coming, so now it just needs to be released."
"The return on investment with Splunk Cloud Platform has been poor. There is a significant possibility we will be replacing it in the next quarter or two."
"They can streamline the process of creating custom apps."
"We're interested in learning more about the new AI features, especially the natural language to SPL conversion."
"There is sometimes no documentation or updated documentation available."
"The security connection should have a seamless integration. Other than that, the way we are using it, so far, it seems quite good."
"There are a lot of functionalities that are missing for Splunk Cloud hosted on GCP but they are available on AWS. Adding more IPs to allow lists and many other functionalities are not supported on Splunk Cloud hosted on GCP. One good example is the ingest action which is not there in Splunk Cloud hosted on GCP. I wish they would add these missing features to the GCP platform."
"Splunk Cloud Platform should have better integrations with its suite of tools."
"Should have more YouTube webinars."
"At that stage, all our needs are fulfilled, but at the beginning, we had some feature requests and they were deployed during their roadmap."
"There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert."
"The solution can be improved by including a wider list of permissions."
"The third-party configuration tool could be easier to use."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of using Splunk Cloud Platform is high, but the value it provides is worth the investment."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform is expensive."
"The lack of transparency around the SVC licensing makes it difficult to explain the costs to our clients."
"Currently, we have the ingest-based license. They are offering SVC-based licenses as well, but I am not a fan of SVC-based licensing. At the end of the day, I want to predict my budget and how much I am going to pay to the vendor so that I can plan my yearly budget."
"The price is something that people complain about."
"The pricing was negotiated through Trustwave and for our first contract in three years, we got a good deal."
"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
"The cost makes more sense for organizations that have a large amount of data ranges."
"The price of the solution could be less expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
30%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
5%
University
5%
Computer Software Company
34%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
If I were to rate the price for the product from 1 to 10, I would rate it nine.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
The disadvantage of Splunk Cloud Platform is that its integration process should be improved. The challenges I have encountered while integrating Splunk Cloud Platform include that integration is a...
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