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Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) vs Sumo Logic Observability comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.8
Splunk ITSI users achieve cost savings, efficiency boosts, reduced downtime, streamlined tasks, and enhanced monitoring and incident management.
Sentiment score
7.0
Sumo Logic Observability improved operational efficiency, reduced downtime, and provided better issue resolution, visibility, stability, and proactive IT management.
We estimate a 30 to 35 percent saving on resource costs and around 25 to 30 percent savings on inventory expenses, all credited to utilizing Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) effectively.
SIEM Splunk Engineer/Architect at Cepheid
Risks can mean that if one failure happens, it can result in risks in hundreds of thousands of USD.
Technology And Digitization Lead at JLL
It has saved me a lot of money and a lot of time.
IT Associate at Accenture
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
Splunk ITSI support is praised for expertise and quick resolutions but criticized for delays and outsourced support issues.
Sentiment score
7.8
Sumo Logic Observability's customer service is highly rated, with quick responses and helpful support, particularly for advanced and OpenTelemetry issues.
The technical support is excellent, and I would rate it at ten.
Senior consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We typically have weekly calls with the technical staff, and whenever we encounter issues, they usually reply with solutions within one or two days.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
I would rate Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) support at nine or 9.5 because it is a highly effective and handy tool.
Splunk Developer ( Training & Enablement) at DXC Technology
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Splunk ITSI efficiently scales with growing data, though costs and hardware requirements can impact scalability in larger environments.
Sentiment score
7.3
Sumo Logic Observability scales efficiently for diverse users, handling peak records with ease, supported by Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry.
Splunk is highly scalable, with the ability to expand efficiently.
Senior consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
When we create Glass Tables containing many searches, the Glass Tables sometimes fail due to memory constraints, and we receive error pages.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) scalability allows us to predict analytics such as service degradation and perform root cause analysis through metrics, logs, and traces.
Sr. Technical Manager at Vodafone
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Splunk ITSI is reliable with high stability ratings, minor slowness during heavy use, and occasional configuration challenges.
Sentiment score
8.8
Sumo Logic Observability is highly reliable, with users experiencing no issues and rating its reliability a perfect ten for enterprises.
The setup, however, must be done correctly as incorrect deployment can lead to issues.
Senior consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) fails if you do not have good hardware requirements.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
I would rate the stability of Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) as a perfect ten; it is an extremely stable tool.
Splunk Developer ( Training & Enablement) at DXC Technology
 

Room For Improvement

Splunk ITSI requires simplified configuration, enhanced features, improved performance, and better scalability to address user concerns effectively.
The system requires efficiency improvements in data usage, cost management, enrichment, search interface, query speed, and pre-built dashboards.
I would appreciate additional features in the next release of Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) such as cloud infrastructure monitoring including CICDs, Kubernetes, and similar technologies.
Director at Techpace
On-cloud upgrades are easy, but on-premises upgrades are very painful.
Technology And Digitization Lead at JLL
If Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) could handle real-time call-outs automatically—not just incident creation—this would reduce our dependency on PagerDuty and consolidate processes within Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence).
Monitoring Dev Ops Engineer at Centrica
 

Setup Cost

Splunk ITSI, while offering premium services, is considered costly due to data volume-based pricing and varying licensing models.
<p>Sumo Logic Observability provides flexible, competitive pricing for enterprises, but additional costs may apply for advanced features and high data volumes.</p>
Splunk ITSI tends to be more expensive compared to some open-source solutions.
Senior consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I believe the pricing is based on daily volume ingestion.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The pricing reflects usage levels, and compared to others in the market, Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) provides a reasonable solution.
Works at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Splunk ITSI offers intelligent alerting, predictive analysis, customizable dashboards, and integration for enhanced operational efficiency and incident management.
Sumo Logic Observability offers real-time alerting, apps, team collaboration, easy integration, and a flexible query language, boosting incident resolution.
The predictive analysis can give you proactive information about potential bottlenecks that can occur on applications, desk, storage, SQL servers, databases, or other systems.
Director at Techpace
One valuable feature is the scheduled maintenance window provided by Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) because Splunk does not offer this scheduling maintenance feature in the core product, but Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) helps us with these maintenance reports.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The most beneficial aspect for me is that it is AI-enabled, providing us with very good analytics.
Technology And Digitization Lead at JLL
 

Categories and Ranking

Splunk ITSI (IT Service Int...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (4th)
Sumo Logic Observability
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
65th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Monitoring Software (45th), AIOps (28th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is 0.8%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sumo Logic Observability is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)0.8%
Sumo Logic Observability0.6%
Other98.6%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

DS
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Service health has been monitored and visual insights support proactive telecom operations
The installation process is the first aspect I dislike about Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence). If you do not configure it correctly, you will encounter issues in the search head. Because we use a distributed environment where each component has its own specific roles, installation is critical and requires careful attention. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is built with many applications. It is a compressed file, and when you extract the Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) app, you receive approximately 19 apps. Some applications, add-ons, and packages must be installed on specific components. If you do not configure an application correctly, it will not work. Sometimes we encounter issues during installation because of this complexity. I believe the installation process should be more uniform, meaning it could be deployed across all components to avoid post-installation issues. Sometimes after installation, you receive errors, and users cannot access Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence). We have experienced this type of issue due to installation errors. I believe there is currently room for improvement regarding scalability. When we create Glass Tables containing many searches, the Glass Tables sometimes fail due to memory constraints, and we receive error pages. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) should have a lightweight version to address these concerns. I would rate current scalability as medium.
Shamshir Nangla - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at LHV Bank
Getting up and running is easy, even for a newbie but management of searches definitely needs improvement
Operational effectiveness with regards to when there's an issue, when there's a reactive issue, people are able to, or as well as proactively, actually, because we use their PagerDuty integrations. We use queries in Sumo Logic to trigger alerts based on logging. That allows us to proactively identify issues as they're happening. With those same alerts, obviously, with that platform, you can use it to reactively start looking at troubleshooting issues as they're happening right then and there or incidents. So it's been very, very good for alerting and for troubleshooting issues. For predicting issues before they happen, it is not very good. They have a feature called anomaly detection, but I think it's quite premature compared to other stuff out there. So it's good for alerts and for troubleshooting operational effectiveness. When your operations are down or segregated, it's perfect because it will help you diagnose the issues.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Construction Company
13%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise45
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)?
From a pricing perspective, it is not that bad because we get it from a distributor and do not purchase it directly from Splunk. We get it from a distributor who gives the pricing to a partner and ...
What needs improvement with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)?
In terms of improvements for Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), I would suggest adding more out-of-the-box plugins and adapters, especially as there is a high demand for observability and dashb...
What is your primary use case for Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)?
I use Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) as a manager of the managers, a tool sitting on top of all the other observability tools. It gets the alerts feed from all the sources such as Splunk Ent...
What needs improvement with Sumo Logic Observability?
The speed of queries could be improved. When using more advanced functions, especially with large datasets like the 90-day log retention we had, queries could be slow, sometimes taking up to five m...
What is your primary use case for Sumo Logic Observability?
We used it for log observability – log aggregation specifically.
What advice do you have for others considering Sumo Logic Observability?
I would advise to have a demo with them to understand the pricing. Sumo Logic Observability used to charge per data ingest, but now they charge by queries, making it difficult to estimate the cost ...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

TransUnion, Cox Automotive, Carnival Cruises, Leidos, Econocom, National Ignition Factory, Entrust Datacard, Molina Healthcare, United States Census Bureau
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