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AppInsights vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

AppInsights
Ranking in Data Visualization
49th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Cloud Platform
Ranking in Data Visualization
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
81
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of AppInsights is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Cloud Platform is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.0%
AppInsights0.5%
Other98.5%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

Karen Trinidad - PeerSpot reviewer
Jr data engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Cost-efficient, good analytics, and stable
Since our application is hosted in the cloud, there is no need for installation. I can simply access the portal and navigate to App Insights for easy access. I give the initial setup a ten out of ten. The deployment took approximately 24 hours to complete due to the large amount of data that had to be transferred. We had about fifteen people involved in the configuration, with two main people taking the lead and the rest on standby in case something happened.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is analytics."
"For my current requirements, the tool theme seems to be meeting my requirements, from a cost and requirements perspective."
"The ROI with Splunk Cloud Platform is on the higher part, as it has improved the efficiency of our overall organization, increased incident response time to any failure by more than 50 percent, and enhanced the overall visibility of the system, architecture, and infrastructure by consolidating all of our data on one platform."
"Splunk Cloud has helped us to be able to focus on getting more information out of our data."
"If you are a beginner, joining a corporate MNC or trying to develop a product and want to check certain logs, I would say that Splunk Cloud Platform is the best tool and product that is there in the market."
"The Cloud Platform interface is cleaner than Splunk Enterprise's monitoring console. You can easily understand what's happening with your indexes. It's more refined than Splunk Enterprise's console, but they have the same feel and function."
"For my current requirements, the tool theme seems to be meeting my requirements, from a cost and requirements perspective."
"The ability to correlate data and then present it in a meaningful and valuable way is crucial."
"UBA is a great application within Splunk Cloud Platform."
 

Cons

"The UI of the solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"Splunk Cloud Platform should improve its integrations and consider multiple integrations or direct integration with other platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS."
"The security connection should have a seamless integration. Other than that, the way we are using it, so far, it seems quite good."
"From my perspective, customization needs to be simplified and I'd like to see a reduction in the cost of the solution."
"In the case of knowledge objects, even a Splunk admin does not have access to delete them. If we want to remove a knowledge object, we need to contact Splunk support and raise a case. After that, they delete it. They should give us access to delete knowledge objects."
"Some of the implementation is challenging. They're not very proxy-aware."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's user interface is quite simple and needs to be updated; it feels as if I am using a platform from two thousand fifteen."
"It is not really scalable because whenever we are trying to scale up our storage in terms of when the user increases and the count of user numbers increase and our log capacity increases, it was not adapting very well."
"Splunk currently manages the components, which restricts our ability to access them directly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is cost-efficient and I give it an eight out of ten."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's pricing is a little on the higher end."
"Splunk Cloud Platform fell within our budget so we pulled the trigger and implemented it."
"It is a touchy subject because we are locked into it. That goes back to the rehydrating data. We cannot have the retention that we want to store for legal and compliance purposes because that is seven years' worth of data for some of the indexes, so we ship them off into S3 buckets and install them there, at which point they are invisible to Splunk, so we have to rehydrate them, but we cannot rehydrate those pockets into Splunk Cloud. We have to rehydrate them into a self-hosted version of Splunk, which can take days to set up and get going. I would not call Splunk's licensing and pricing predatory, but they have made it very difficult to maintain the independence of your own data."
"I do not know what that is anymore. I have not been involved with that for a couple of years, but I know we are paying a lot."
"I know that Splunk Cloud Platform is an expensive product."
"There are additional features that you would need to purchase depending on your use case."
"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."
"The price is something that people complain about."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
12%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise55
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
Related to the pricing factor, I think it is slightly on the costlier side, but I wouldn't know much because I'm not on the management side. My organization divides developers and management, so we...
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform is almost a nine out of ten, but the main improvement point is the user manual. Recently, we got stuck somewhere in an error, but because of the less documentation available i...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform is used to monitor everything, as we have multiple applications from which we get multiple data and multiple logs. We centralized our logging system, centralized our APIs, and...
 

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