Splunk Enterprise Platform vs xMatters comparison

Splunk and Everbridge are both solutions in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category. Splunk is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4, while Everbridge is ranked #9. Splunk holds a 1.6% mindshare in IMS, compared to Everbridge’s 6.1% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Splunk users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Everbridge users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

xMatters and Splunk Enterprise Platform compete in the incident management and data analytics categories respectively. xMatters stands out in automated alert notifications and ITSM handling, while Splunk is preferred for extensive data analytics and visualization capabilities.

Features: xMatters emphasizes automated alerts and strong integration capabilities, providing efficient incident resolution through robust scheduling and notification features. Its integration with ITSM tools like ServiceNow makes incident management seamless. Splunk Enterprise Platform is valued for its comprehensive data analytics and visualization, handling vast data volumes efficiently. Its customizable dashboards and detailed insights cater to diverse security and monitoring needs.

Room for Improvement: xMatters could improve its integration complexities and reporting capabilities. The platform’s REST API, while robust, lacks some functions needed by smaller users, and certain integrations require technical knowledge. Reporting limitations and interface rigidity can be challenging. Splunk Enterprise Platform should simplify its user interface and adjust its expensive pricing structure. New users might find its complex integration setup and lack of prebuilt dashboards cumbersome.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: xMatters offers versatile deployment options, praised for responsive technical support and a proficient customer success team ensuring smooth implementations. Splunk is mainly on-premises with hybrid setups, providing robust technical support. Both handle data flexibly and resolve user issues efficiently; however, xMatters is noted for its customer-focused approach.

Pricing and ROI: xMatters uses a per-user licensing model, allowing flexible alert management without alert limits, enhancing ROI through increased incident handling efficiency. Yet, license management complexity can affect cost-effectiveness. Splunk's cost, based on data ingestion, is perceived as expensive and could be limiting for small businesses. Users often justify the expense due to its feature depth but seek more cost-effective alternatives.

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Categories and Ranking

Splunk Enterprise Platform

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Visualization (4th)

xMatters

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

9th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Platform is 1.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of xMatters is 6.1%, down from 9.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Alerting and Incident Management

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Kundan Nagare

Senior Consultant at Infosys

Offers excellent data analysis and visualization capabilities

I use the Platform to monitor my IT infrastructure. There are apps for Linux and Windows servers that capture performance metrics like CPU and memory usage. These metrics are collected and sent to the blank index through forwarders. Splunk helps with security information and event management by detecting and monitoring network equipment and firewalls. It saves searches for specific terms, like threats, in firewall logs. When a match is found, it alerts about potential security breaches, helping to detect and address them. The real-time processing capability in Splunk enhances data monitoring by centrally collecting all data. This allows for easy searching and scheduling of searches, reducing the need for manual intervention. The dashboard and visualization features in Splunk impact data analysis by providing a clear status of data analysis. Users can create customized views for management, helping them understand what is happening within the infrastructure more effectively. I would recommend Splunk to others, especially from the CIM perspective. Its data analysis and visualization capabilities are unmatched, making it an excellent choice for SIM. Overall, I would rate Splunk Enterprise Platform as a nine out of ten.

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Dean-Robinson

Sr. Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

A versatile solution with excellent logging capabilities that reduced our time to resolve

The reporting functionality could be improved, though I know that's something xMatters, inc. is working on. For example, sometimes I need to go into the platform and find users who aren't in groups that have been created recently, haven't logged in and so on. Previously, this was hard work, but they added loads of filters, making it more accessible. Still, the ability to create custom-designated reports that I could run and schedule would be fantastic for me. It would be good if they keep improving the reporting functionality, as it can be somewhat restrictive sometimes. There are a couple of improvements that xMatters could make to the incident hub, where we can manage high-priority incidents. More sharing capability between collaborating incident managers would be good to see, including the ability to whiteboard. That would allow them to share and sketch out ideas while looking for a solution. Those two features are essential, and that's why we want to use the solution in conjunction with Everbridge because xMatters doesn't have them.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Easy setup and maintenance"

"Overall, I rate Splunk Enterprise Platform ten out of ten."

"The best thing about Splunk is you can collect all the data you want, and you can play with the data and do what you want."

"Splunk Enterprise Platform is a good tool to have, but it is expensive."

"Splunk Enterprise Platform is an easy-to-use and easy-to-configure solution."

"Splunk is very flexible in handling various formats of data as long as basic rules are adhered to."

"Splunk Enterprise Platform can be used for security, IT monitoring, and observability."

"It's not just one feature I like the most. Every person wants to collect and rate logs, and I value how the Splunk Enterprise Platform handles this.The most valuable part for us is setting up the alerts and reports to manage the logs and log metrics. We use it to support every tool across the entire bank.We are the ones who manage all the data, and if there's any issue, everything depends on the Splunk Enterprise Platform."

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"For our major incident management, it has expanded what we can do in terms of the format of the communication. People can subscribe, and they can receive delivery on multiple platforms, whether it's a voice message, email, or mobile app message. It enables us to deliver the right communication to the right people in the format they want."

"xMatters is helpful for getting the right on-call resources. That is a key factor. It is also very user-friendly, and just a little documentation helps you to understand things such as how on-calls are configured, how groups are configured, and how users update their on-call devices."

"We're able to communicate better with specific groups or offices. We didn't have that capability or granularity before. It has helped in that regard."

"We're able to point all of our alerting tools at xMatters and have it route alerts to the right people at the right time. We're able to generate major instant notifications for product outages, get all of our people on the bridge at the same time, and include information from our monitoring tools with that. So everyone is speaking the same language and seeing the same information. We're able to route those notifications not only to people, but also to other tools like Slack channels, where everyone can get in and collaborate."

"That automation is the critical aspect of xMatters. Without those workflows, then we would have a system that maintains an on-call schedule in Excel. So xMatters provides the notification workflow and ensures you're notifying the right person at the right time."

"The ability to notify teams and monitor those notifications in real-time is valuable. Time-based escalation of notifications helps us resolve issues much more quickly."

"It reduces the mean time to restore a service. Before, it would probably take an hour to get everybody settled down. With the integrations right now, if somebody flags a major incident, then everyone is on a call in the next 15 minutes."

"Simple features create flow sets and build APIs for integrations."

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Cons

"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."

"Based on my experience, I've noticed areas for improvement, particularly in support. Developers typically interact with support personnel who may lack technical expertise when raising support tickets. This can result in delays as initial interactions involve sharing documents before escalation to higher support levels."

"There is room for improvement in introducing more AI capabilities onto Splunk Enterprise Platform."

"The platform is too expensive for small businesses. Splunk should focus more on delivering something for small businesses and entrepreneurs."

"Sometimes, queries don't give proper results, and the indexes go down."

"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."

"It's not easy or feasible to reach out to Splunk directly."

"The support offered by Splunk Enterprise Platform has certain shortcomings that need improvement."

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"In terms of restoration, if you delete something, or you have multiple users that have the ability to delete a group, a user profile, or a workflow, the ability to restore it within the GUI is not available. There are a whole bunch of programs that are required to allow for that to happen. A button to go back to a good point in time would be really nice. A lot of other tools have a better backup and restoration solution, but xMatters is a little bit short on that. They have about 95% solution available, but the other 5% requires manual effort. We would like to be able to just push a button and say, "I want to restore this piece back to this date," but we can't do that with the tool right now."

"Reporting is the weakest point of xMatters. Since xMatters has very limited reporting and only maintains logs of events for a short period of time, we export event and conference logs to our ITSM solution."

"The REST API is still missing some important functionality, which we require."

"What I would like it to do is tell me anytime there is a P1 incident, except when the ticket is assigned to this team or when this word is in the summary, but there is no exclusion option. I have been complaining about this for a couple years. At one point, we created a ticket for this with the developers to review. I assume that once enough people complain about it, they will bump it up in priority to work on. However, if not enough people think it is an issue, then they prioritize their work and work on other features and functionality. However, this is something that has been challenging for us because we have needed to find ways to work around it or just deal with it. So, I would love to see an exclusion option."

"In terms of intuitiveness and flexibility of xMatters when it comes to customizing on-call schedules, rotations, and escalations, for me, as an IT professional, setting it up isn't that big of a deal, but I understand that some people struggle with it because when you get wrapped up into it. You can get lost. It's not super complex, but it's complicated enough to the point where you can say that you should have done it another way. The shift part can be confusing for some people. In that respect, one of the shortcomings my team has found is when we have to add another person, such as a new hire, to xMatters, we can't add them to a group within xMatters without having to put them on a shift. If we put them in a group, they have to be on-call. We can create their account, and then they're just out there in limbo until their team says, "You have to be on this shift." One piece of feedback for xMatters is to figure out how to have manageable groups so that they're contactable from xMatters. They do not necessarily have to be on a shift right from the start or at all for that matter."

"We would like to see a greater variety of integrations with ServiceNow. It works fine as it is, but an enhancement would be the ability to interact with the major incident module in ServiceNow... The way our major incident process works, when an incident is elevated from a P1 to a major incident, that is an extra flag in ServiceNow. It would be awesome to have xMatters get notification when something goes from a P1 to a major and then have it go through a different workflow, rather than our regular P1."

"On-call management scheduling is difficult."

"I've asked for the ability to have tags on groups, and for dynamic lists, meaning the ability to pull data from another location and use it in xMatters dynamically. Right now, for example, if I have a form and want to populate a list, it's a manual process. I have to copy and paste the list items."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing increases with the amount of data used. This pricing model is acceptable because it aligns with the security features provided. It ensures that the price reflects the level of security and the amount of data we're managing."

"The product is expensive, and the cost depends on the amount of data ingestion."

"The solution’s pricing is moderate."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing around seven or eight out of ten."

"There are yearly payments to be made towards the licensing costs attached to the solution."

"The solution is expensive, so I rate its pricing a four out of ten."

"The tool is expensive."

"I have heard from my managers that Splunk Enterprise Platform is an expensive solution."

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"Pricing is pretty straightforward and listed on their website. I recommend starting small and expanding later."

"The pricing is tiered so we took that into account. If we were to license 10 or 20 people, that would be a certain price. And if we were to license 50 or 100, there would be a little bit of discounting. But the per-user license was right in line with what we were expecting."

"I know roughly what we pay per year. For what we use it for and what its purpose is, it is very valuable."

"Then, in pricing, you are limited on your number of SMS messages that you can send a month and the licensing cost annually."

"There's a significant difference between a full license, which allows people to respond to and acknowledge receipt of messages, and a more scaled-down license, which just allows people to see the notification. So we need to evaluate what license they need when onboarding new users because the full license is significantly more expensive."

"We're currently per license. We're paying around $44,000 per year for 80 full users and 300 standard users. For a new implementation, we also need to pay for an expert."

"It is worth the cost. You need to know the number of users that are going to use it, which is usually pretty easy to calculate. It's on a per-user license."

"It feels like good value in the sense that the service is excellent. The people above me who look at such things have renewed it a couple of times, and I think they would have thought whether it was good value, whether it was wildly overpriced, or whether there were better and cheaper alternatives. So, from that perspective, the pricing is fair and proper."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Splunk Enterprise Platform?

The most valuable features of the solution are the load balancing technique, the forwarding technique, and SSL certification.

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What needs improvement with Splunk Enterprise Platform?

While Splunk Enterprise Platform is a good product, it is expensive. Additionally, it is complex for inexperienced cybersecurity engineers and requires experienced personnel to handle it effectively.

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What is your primary use case for Splunk Enterprise Platform?

We are working with AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Platform, and other Splunk products. However, the main use case here is with Splunk Enterprise Platform.

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Overview

Explore data of any type and value — no matter where it lives in your data ecosystem.
Drive business resilience by monitoring, alerting and reporting on your operations.
Create custom dashboards and data visualizations to unlock insights from anywhere — in your operations center, on the desktop, in the field and on the go.
Use data from anywhere across your entire organization so you can make meaningful decisions fast.

Splunk

xMatters, an Everbridge company, is a service reliability platform that helps DevOps, SREs, and operations teams rapidly deliver products at scale by automating workflows and ensuring infrastructure and applications are always working. The xMatters code-free workflow builder, adaptive approach to incident management, and real-time performance analytics all support a single goal: deliver customer happiness.

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Reliable services, rapid innovation: Automate operations workflows, ensure applications are always working, and deliver remarkable products at scale with the xMatters service reliability platform.

Automate on the xMatters service reliability platform: Move faster with confidence. Our no-code and low-code integrations let you build flexible workflows to address issues proactively—even during deployments.

Frictionless on-call: Manage on-call seamlessly. Automatically escalate to the right people, schedule with ease, and act on detailed alerts from anywhere.

Adaptive Incident Management: Stay resilient in any scenario with our adaptive approach to incident management. Automate resolution, protect customers from disruptions, and learn from each event.

Signal Intelligence: Put situations in context and cut through the noise of multiple monitoring tools with filtering and suppression, alert correlation, enriched notifications, and routing based on role or function.

Actionable Analytics: Get quick insights into key metrics to understand inefficiencies, boosting collaboration and productivity across engineering and operations teams.

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Over 2.7 million users trust xMatters daily at successful startups and global giants including athenahealth, BMC Software, Box, Credit Suisse, Danske Bank, Experian, NVIDIA, ViaSat and Vodafone. xMatters is headquartered in San Ramon, California and has offices worldwide. Visit our website to see how business like yours found solutions with xMatters.

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