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Splunk Cloud Platform vs Yellowfin comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Splunk Cloud Platform
Ranking in Data Visualization
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (3rd)
Yellowfin
Ranking in Data Visualization
22nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (35th), Reporting (24th), Embedded BI (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Splunk Cloud Platform is 1.1%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yellowfin is 1.9%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.1%
Yellowfin1.9%
Other97.0%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2805510 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Unified log analytics has transformed security monitoring and cuts breach detection to minutes
Splunk Cloud Platform has areas for improvement, including the fact that it is obviously an enterprise tool and can be expensive, which is the biggest complaint I have noted. Costs can rise due to high data ingestion and long retention periods, along with a complex licensing structure that makes pricing difficult to predict as usage grows, especially since more systems send logs. There are also performance concerns at scale where users have reported slower searches and expensive long-term storage needs, particularly in multi-terabyte environments. Additionally, operational complexity exists as enterprises still need to do data onboarding, create dashboards, handle retention policies, access control, and performance tuning. These are the three key areas of improvement I have identified.
AC
‎IS Executive at SAINS
It is a central source of up-to-date data and information, but needs more charting capabilities
Management information Reporting Statistics Data analysis It reduces sending copies of different report/spreadsheet versions over email, which makes it difficult to access the right report. It is also able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout.  All management…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Splunk Cloud Platform has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to be more proactive with our monitoring."
"I like the idea of being able to list the IPs that we want without having to open up a ticket to get it done so that way if anything changes we can add a new IP."
"The best features of Splunk Cloud Platform include its powerful analytics and intuitive user interface, and I particularly appreciate how it simplifies complex data operations."
"Splunk Cloud Platform has greatly improved my daily operations through enhanced integration with third-party tools."
"The real-time search capability of this product enhances operational decision-making, and it's very convincing."
"Since Splunk Cloud Platform is a fully managed service, there is no need to handle servers, upgrades, or maintenance."
"It has simplified our cyber operations; it has helped us respond to threats and investigations much quicker than with our previous SIEM, is honestly less headache for me as an admin, and is much easier because a lot of people in the industry in cyber know Splunk already."
"Improved security has been achieved because a lot of security logs are ingested to Splunk Cloud Platform, where they are being used to identify security vulnerabilities and checkpoints."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"Yellowfin doesn’t try to do everything – it is a BI presentation and communication tool, and it does it brilliantly."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
 

Cons

"There can be more modules and more integration with other areas in the cloud and on-prem. I am not sure whether it includes network devices and things like that."
"Its stability and performance can be better. Very rarely does a day go by when we do not see an error in the console, such as a health check error. Because it is cloud-hosted, we do not have access to the backend to figure it out ourselves. We are reliant on their support to figure it out, and a couple of days later, the error comes back or it is a different error. It is a never-ending cycle of support tickets. Their support is also not great."
"We face occasional downtime issues where when we try to scale up, we face a considerable amount of challenges."
"I think that Splunk Cloud Platform is good, and I rate it seven or eight."
"One aspect I dislike about Splunk Cloud Platform is that cost can become high as data ingestion increases."
"We have not seen benefits right away because we have just started to migrate to Splunk Cloud Platform."
"The only thing I would say is an issue is the cost. It matches other products. The costs can be justified for the value that we gain. The entire threat analysis stack should come in a bundle. If the cost was matchable with other products I think Splunk would pick up in the market."
"Customization could be simplified."
"The first release was a bit buggy, but they seem to have gotten on top of that very quickly."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing model makes this an expensive solution."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is more expensive than some of its competitors, but it offers a wider range of features."
"The certifications are costly."
"We were involved in the renewal process, and our organization does reviews of all our partnerships that we have every two to three years to ensure they are meeting our needs, there isn't a better solution out there, and we won't save money by going somewhere else."
"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 lack of transparency around the SVC licensing makes it difficult to explain the costs to our clients."
"I know that Splunk Cloud Platform is an expensive product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
18%
Educational Organization
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise80
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been very good, as we did not face any issues. We're receiving all the needed support from the start.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
More guardrails can be implemented, and workload management can be improved in Splunk Cloud Platform. Ad hoc searches are still being executed with index equal to star, which reveals opportunities ...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform serves as our primary observability solution, focusing on monitoring logs, metrics, and traces for our systems. We primarily use Splunk Cloud Platform for log monitoring by se...
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