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AppInsights vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

AppInsights
Ranking in Data Visualization
32nd
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
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of AppInsights is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Cloud Platform is 1.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Karen Trinidad - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Ian Gatundu - PeerSpot reviewer
It improves our visibility and decision-making while helping us meet compliance standards
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. It's easy to monitor multiple cloud environments because you can create custom dashboards for any use case you may have. It offers good visibility because it integrates with the ITSI app, providing a clear overview of your environment. Integrating Splunk with other components on the cloud and network resources is effortless because it can collect data from various sources, including stored data from long-term storage. Splunk's reporting offers a good visualization of your data. You can visualize the statistics based on your searches. It produces some helpful graphs that enable you to easily compare what's happening in your search. It's very comprehensive.

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."
"We only buy the services we need. We don't have to pay for other things we don't."
"The most valuable features are reliability and logging. It's in the cloud so it has more stability and easy maintenance."
"We use Splunk Cloud primarily as a troubleshooting tool, so the most valuable features are the analysis and visualization."
"We haven't had any limitations or problems connecting to our network devices."
"The solution is user friendly and has extensive uses."
"This is a complete log reporting tool."
"In terms of the benefits of the product, I would say it is my go-to tool."
"Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily."
 

Cons

"The UI of the solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"The pricing model makes the product costly."
"Splunk Cloud Platform needs to be made more user-friendly because it's not user-friendly."
"The administration could use improvement. We have to rely on support more often than we're used to."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform dashboard could benefit from some improvements."
"The disadvantage of Splunk Cloud Platform is that its integration process should be improved."
"There can be more modules and more integration with other areas in the cloud and on-prem. I am not sure whether it includes network devices and things like that."
"When one of my customers needs an app, and I am able to find that app on the Splunk base, I have to create a ticket and wait for five days for them to download the app into the cloud environment. That is probably one of the main things. It is painful because I have to wait to get that app in the cloud."
"Splunk should increase the frequency of new feature releases, particularly those related to real-time operational flow monitoring and analytics reporting."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is cost-efficient and I give it an eight out of ten."
"I am familiar with the pricing and licensing model a little bit. I am not sure about the particulars of the actual price that we have, but I do like the idea of going towards a more CPU-based approach rather than the ingest approach because it allows us the ability to ingest more data if we need it."
"There are additional features that you would need to purchase depending on your use case."
"Currently, we have the ingest-based license. They are offering SVC-based licenses as well, but I am not a fan of SVC-based licensing. At the end of the day, I want to predict my budget and how much I am going to pay to the vendor so that I can plan my yearly budget."
"I would rate the cost an eight out of ten, with ten being the most costly."
"It is not that expensive."
"The cost of the Splunk Cloud Platform is high, and in addition to the standard licensing fee, we also have a premium support fee."
"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."
"Splunk Cloud Platform fell within our budget so we pulled the trigger and implemented it."
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Computer Software Company
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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

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What do you like most about Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
If I were to rate the price for the product from 1 to 10, I would rate it nine.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
The disadvantage of Splunk Cloud Platform is that its integration process should be improved. The challenges I have encountered while integrating Splunk Cloud Platform include that integration is a...
 

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