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AppInsights vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

AppInsights
Ranking in Data Visualization
41st
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
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
111
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of AppInsights is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Cloud Platform is 1.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.1%
AppInsights0.6%
Other98.3%
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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."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its robustness and ability to ingest logs."
"Splunk Cloud's most valuable features are log aggregations, dashboarding, business management, reporting, and business controls. Additionally, it has awesome indexing and the solution is always improving"
"With Splunk Cloud Platform, you can modify whatever you want; let's say you want to run Python, you want to run any script, you want to monitor any port, you want to monitor data from syslog, whatever you think, you can do it in Splunk Cloud Platform."
"The visualization feature in Splunk Cloud Platform is a pretty good feature because I did not need to go to any other vendors, for example, any.run or VirusTotal."
"Everything is maintained by the Splunk support team. Users do not have to maintain any physical servers. They do not have to maintain indexes and searches. It reduces a lot of work on the user side."
"The favorite feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is the infrastructure that has been provided to us, and the pricing that has been given to us is very low and fits within our budget, and the main feature is the reduction in time and manpower."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud is the quick setup."
"It has end-to-end visibility into our cloud-native environment, which is pretty important for us. About 80% of our infrastructure is on AWS."
 

Cons

"The UI of the solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"We face occasional downtime issues where when we try to scale up, we face a considerable amount of challenges."
"The expensive nature of the product is an area of concern that needs to be considered for improvement."
"Sometimes, the technical support case persons are not sufficiently technical; they are not technical enough or not understanding the issues."
"Splunk Cloud Platform can be improved by providing dedicated documentation, especially regarding the edge processors and MCP, along with continuous updates."
"There could be better searches, but mainly, it needs to improve the performance with a vast amount of data. That will make it better and easier to use."
"Sometimes, the support team may not be fully knowledgeable about the challenge you face, but through their internal escalation structure, they manage to find viable solutions sooner or later or provide updates on when issues will be fixed."
"The dislike about Splunk Cloud Platform is the learning resources and the learning materials that they have."
"However, there is one issue: when our storage limit is crossed, they directly charge higher."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is cost-efficient and I give it an eight out of ten."
"The cost of using Splunk Cloud Platform is high, but the value it provides is worth the investment."
"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."
"Splunk is a bit more expensive than some solutions, but customers can derive more value from it due to the features it has."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is more expensive than some of its competitors, but it offers a wider range of features."
"The cost makes more sense for organizations that have a large amount of data ranges."
"The pricing model makes this an expensive solution."
"The lack of transparency around the SVC licensing makes it difficult to explain the costs to our clients."
"I know that Splunk Cloud Platform is an expensive product."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise79
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform is a Gartner leading product. Splunk is superior in comparison with any other SIEM.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
There is always room for improvement. Splunk can improve because it is a very expensive product. Because of the cost, we do not have as many skilled resources for Splunk, which makes it very diffic...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
I was a consumer using Splunk Cloud Platform at that time. I have been familiar with Splunk Cloud Platform. I was a user of Splunk Cloud Platform and a customer also.
 

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