Splunk On-Call vs xMatters comparison

Splunk and Everbridge are both solutions in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category. Splunk is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.0, while Everbridge is ranked #11. Splunk holds a 3.6% mindshare in IMS, compared to Everbridge’s 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 83% 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 On-Call are incident management tools. xMatters is advantageous in pricing and support, while Splunk On-Call offers superior features.

Features: xMatters integrates with various service management tools, automates workflows, and enables real-time notifications. Splunk On-Call focuses on alerting, scheduling, and offers integration with Splunk’s analytics, creating an enhanced incident management environment.

Room for Improvement: xMatters could improve its advanced analytics capabilities and offer more native integrations with third-party tools. It may also enhance complexity management for larger teams. Splunk On-Call would benefit from a more flexible pricing model and improved support for non-Splunk users. It could also enhance its UI for broader accessibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: xMatters offers easy deployment with comprehensive support and documentation, ensuring an intuitive user experience. Splunk On-Call provides strong deployment and integration for Splunk users, although it might require more setup effort for new users.

Pricing and ROI: xMatters offers flexible pricing that delivers a high ROI, catering to diverse organizational needs. Splunk On-Call’s higher cost reflects its extensive feature set, which can be valuable for analytics-focused teams, though it may be less appealing for cost-sensitive organizations.

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Categories and Ranking

Splunk On-Call

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

xMatters

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

11th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Splunk On-Call is 3.6%, down from 7.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of xMatters is 5.9%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Alerting and Incident Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Splunk On-Call	3.6%
xMatters	5.9%
Other	90.5%

IT Alerting and Incident Management

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Venda E

Cloud Option Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Automated alert routing has improved incident response and now enables faster on-call collaboration

Some of the features of Splunk On-Call include automated alert routing and escalation that will ensure the right people get notified immediately. Also, on-call scheduling and rotation management. This feature makes managing shifts and coverage very easy. Another feature is real-time incident collaboration and communication. This will help bring the right team together fast. Another feature is alert de-duplication and suppression. This will reduce the noise, so only meaningful alerts reach the on-call staff. The feature I rely on the most in my daily work is automated alert routing and escalation. It ensures that critical issues go directly to the right engineer without delay, which saves time and prevents the incident from being missed. This has been the biggest contributor to improving our response times. The noise reduction feature is also very helpful. By filtering out non-critical or duplicate alerts, Splunk On-Call keeps our team focused on what actually matters and prevents alert fatigue. Splunk On-Call has helped my organization to improve response times, reduce missed alerts, and coordinate teams more efficiently during incidents. It also reduced alert fatigue and made our on-call process more reliable and predictable. Our average incident response time dropped by around 20% to 25%, mainly because alerts reached the right people faster. We also noticed fewer unnecessary escalations, and missed alerts almost completely stopped after we implemented automated routing and escalation policies.

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reviewer1855452

Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Helps in ensuring that everyone gets notified when needed, and provides the flexibility to integrate it and build what we want on top of it

They recently released an incident module that allows users, or at least teams, to track major incidents and other things, and you can send out communication via that one webpage. You can engage on-call teams and communicate to stakeholders as well, but one thing that is missing there is a group chat. If there is a group chat on the same webpage that all of the support teams could use, it would be a one-stop shop that all of the major incident managers would use as their product to manage a major incident. Without that, at the moment, they are mainly referring to teams and then adding data into xMatters as and when they can. Some of the workflow development work that we do for the in-house piece can be quite complicated if you don't have experience using the tool. You have to have to go through the documentation, but I suppose that's an expectation. When users first log on and they're configuring the rotas, it does take them a bit of time to get their heads around how to configure the shifts. Some of them do need guidance. We have got a support document, and xMatters also has a support page where they can go and read through the details. Our roles and access for each user are locked down, as opposed to just letting them access the xMatters portal because it can add more confusion because the support portal explains that they can do X, Y, and Z. So, we're removing that ability, but once the users get their head around how to configure the rotas, the overall intuitiveness of the UI is pretty good. It is simple and clean, and they don't have to do that many steps. There are probably one or two group supervisors that configure the rotas, and the rest of them log on. We've already pre-populated the contact details from our directory, so usually, they'll just go and add a personal device, if they do want to get called on a personal device, or they want to set up the app, which is pretty easy using the QR codes. The product looks nice and clean. The only thing is that it takes a little bit of work to get your head around the rotas, but once you do, it's pretty darn simple.

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Pros

"Transmogrifier and automatic solution report gives me a report with the solution and the way to solve issues when an error occurred."

"Splunk On-Call has helped my organization to improve response times, reduce missed alerts, and coordinate teams more efficiently during incidents."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is helpdesk escalation."

"The flexible schedule is the most valuable feature. It was very easy to set out a rotation."

"VictorOps has been good enough for us and it's effective for our needs in case of an on-call escalation process."

"The alert calling feature is the best because notifications are delivered via phone messages."

"Its ease of use and self-service are important to me. It's very easy for users to go in and modify their own contact information, for managers to go in and manage their own on-call rotations and shifts."

"The most valuable feature is getting alerts out to my user base. xMatters is the only solution that I know that has robust scheduling, calendaring for groups, and that provides very good delineation of who gets alerted and on which devices they receive their alerts."

"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."

"It has been easy to use and very reliable."

"Having our users manage their own notification devices within xMatters is huge, since it takes the burden off our datacenter."

"Workflows and messaging are most valuable. Workflows are very useful. They are important for consolidating information or stopping duplication from happening. We put all the information into xMatters and then the workflow will push the same information in the correct format directly through to other applications that our end users frequently use, such as Slack, email, and Workplace."

"One of the things that really attracted me is in workflows, you can write your own custom steps in JavaScript. You are not restricted to the steps that they provide. If you can write it in JavaScript, you can pretty much do anything. It gives me flexibility in ways that other platforms don't. For example, the online dashboard system we use is not a widely used one, but they have an API. So, I'm able to write the JavaScript steps to do things like check if a system's in the maintenance window or create an instant on the dashboard or change the status of an instant. I'm not dependent on the dashboard provider or xMatters creating steps for me."

"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."

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Cons

"The third-party configuration tool could be easier to use."

"One area for improvement would be enhancing the mobile app experience."

"There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert."

"The solution can be improved by including a wider list of permissions."

"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."

"I would like to see some more user templates. There are roles — administrator, user, etc. — but it would be nice to create a user template that restricted what people assigned that role could do."

"We would like to see the integration between our ITSM solution and xMatters."

"We have to create an Excel sheet for onboarding users and then upload it. But if an employee resigns, we don't have any checkpoints to validate whether the user is still active or not. We have to do that manually every week: Check who has left the organization, and do a cross-check, whether this person had any licenses or signed in to xMatters."

"On-call management scheduling is difficult."

"One of the main reasons why we don't use xMatters for monitoring and alerting is that it doesn't use the rota to call the person who's on-call. It doesn't look up the rota to find out who's on-call and then contacts that person directly. I am not sure if this has changed now, but the last time we checked, this functionality wasn't there. This is one of the main improvements. We're happy with the rest of it."

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

"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."

"The data validation and verification need to be enhanced so that when data is changed, it reviews it in an automated manner and catches all of the anomalies."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution could be less expensive."

"I'm not really involved with the cost standpoint. I've only heard rumors of how much it costs, and if it costs what I think it costs, its cost is very high as compared to a lot of other tools that we're using here. It seems on the higher end from a cost standpoint."

"Cost is probably my biggest concern. I know the solution was recently acquired by Everbridge, and Everbridge was one of the competitors that was included in our RFP five years ago. Everbridge's costs were astronomical compared to where every other solution was, not just xMatters."

"I don't make the decisions on the cost aspect. We haven't had any complaints. I think it has a reasonable price."

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

"If the licensing were cheaper, our customer might buy more."

"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."

"The pricing and licensing are okay. I wish that the user licenses were cheaper but the stakeholder licenses are at a reasonable cost."

"This is a subscription-based, SaaS solution."

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Overview

Splunk On-Call offers seamless on-call scheduling and alert escalation with robust third-party integration, providing efficient incident management and resolution capabilities.

Splunk On-Call facilitates effective IT alert management by delivering on-call scheduling, alert escalation, and comprehensive integration with monitoring systems. The platform's capabilities include smooth third-party interactions and the transmogrifier feature, which enhances message customization. Users benefit from efficient alert notifications via phone or text, a user-friendly interface streamlining scheduling, and detailed timelines supporting root cause analysis. It is especially useful in IT environments where quick incident response and communication are critical. Users appreciate the aid in identifying responsible contacts during on-call rotations and deploying on-premises situations involving numerous team members.

What features enhance Splunk On-Call?

Seamless On-Call Scheduling: Organizes and simplifies duty rotations efficiently.
Effective Alert Escalation: Ensures critical issues reach the appropriate personnel swiftly.
Comprehensive Third-Party Integration: Connects easily with monitoring tools to streamline workflows.
Transmogrifier Feature: Customizes message content to improve communication clarity.
Automatic Solution Reporting: Aids in swift issue resolution through detailed reports.
Efficient Alert Notifications: Offers swift communication via phone and text notifications.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies management of schedules and overrides.

What benefits and ROI should users expect when utilizing Splunk On-Call?

Reduced Incident Response Time: Accelerates team reaction to critical alerts.
Enhanced Communication: Facilitates clearer and quicker interaction within teams.
Flexibility: Adapts to specific organizational requirements effortlessly.
Improved Root Cause Analysis: Provides comprehensive timelines and reports for deep dives.

Splunk On-Call is often implemented in IT departments of large organizations, where teams manage on-call operations and incident responses. Particularly beneficial in sectors requiring rapid reaction times, like tech companies or service providers, it aids developers in swiftly resolving service interruptions to maintain operational continuity and customer satisfaction.

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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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Sample Customers

NVIDIA, Cisco, NBC, Rackspace, Intuit, DirectTV, NASCAR, Arrow Electronics, Alliance Health, NetApp, Edmunds, New York Times, Return Path, Sony Playstation, CA Technologies, Sphero, Symantic, HBO, Weatherford, Blackboard, Epic Games

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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