The pricing is based on several factors, including the scale of deployment. The pricing model typically includes considerations like the number of hosts, features, and capabilities.
I don't have much insight into the costs and licensing area attached to the tool. I am the engineer and developer, not the person who writes the checks in the company. I know that my company has a Splunk Enterprise Security license which is used for logging and even for Splunk Observability.
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We have a very good conversation with our vendor for Splunk APM. We have full transparency regarding the different license and cost models. We have found a way to handle both the normal average load and the high peak that some of our tests can cause. Splunk APM is a very cost-efficient solution. We have also changed the license model from a host-based license model to a more granular way to measure it, such as the number of metric time series or the traces analyzed per minute. We have quite a firm statement that for every cost caused within Splunk, you need to be able to correlate it to an IT project or a team to see who the biggest cost driver is. As per our current model, we are buying a capacity, and we eventually want to have a pay-as-you-go model. We cannot use that currently because we have renewed our license for only one year.
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Splunk Observability Cloud offers sophisticated log searching, data integration, and customizable dashboards. With rapid deployment and ease of use, this cloud service enhances monitoring capabilities across IT infrastructures for comprehensive end-to-end visibility.Focused on enhancing performance management and security, Splunk Observability Cloud supports environments through its data visualization and analysis tools. Users appreciate its robust application performance monitoring and...
Splunk Observability Cloud is expensive.
It appears to be expensive compared to competitors.
The pricing is based on several factors, including the scale of deployment. The pricing model typically includes considerations like the number of hosts, features, and capabilities.
I don't have much insight into the costs and licensing area attached to the tool. I am the engineer and developer, not the person who writes the checks in the company. I know that my company has a Splunk Enterprise Security license which is used for logging and even for Splunk Observability.
We have a very good conversation with our vendor for Splunk APM. We have full transparency regarding the different license and cost models. We have found a way to handle both the normal average load and the high peak that some of our tests can cause. Splunk APM is a very cost-efficient solution. We have also changed the license model from a host-based license model to a more granular way to measure it, such as the number of metric time series or the traces analyzed per minute. We have quite a firm statement that for every cost caused within Splunk, you need to be able to correlate it to an IT project or a team to see who the biggest cost driver is. As per our current model, we are buying a capacity, and we eventually want to have a pay-as-you-go model. We cannot use that currently because we have renewed our license for only one year.
Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable.
The pricing is reasonable.
The solution is reasonably priced compared to the competition. We do not find it very expensive at all.
I haven't dealt with the pricing and licensing aspects of the solution.