CA Unified Communications Monitor vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

Broadcom and Splunk are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #87, while Splunk is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3. Broadcom holds a 0.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to Splunk’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 50% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

CA Unified Communications Monitor and Splunk Observability Cloud compete in the communication and system monitoring category. Splunk Observability Cloud often has an advantage due to its comprehensive features and perceived value.

Features: CA Unified Communications Monitor monitors and analyzes communication patterns, provides detailed insights into network performance, and focuses on specific communication data analytics. Splunk Observability Cloud offers a broad range of monitoring features, real-time analytics, comprehensive visualization tools, and advanced data processing abilities, making it suitable for complex environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CA Unified Communications Monitor offers a straightforward deployment process with dedicated support, making it ideal for on-premise systems. Splunk Observability Cloud is designed for cloud environments, allowing seamless integration and swift deployment. Both products offer robust customer service, but Splunk's cloud-native approach often simplifies maintenance and scaling.

Pricing and ROI: CA Unified Communications Monitor presents a low initial setup cost appealing to budgeting organizations. Splunk Observability Cloud, despite a higher initial cost, provides strong ROI due to its powerful feature set and efficient operation in diverse IT infrastructures. Long-term value is seen in Splunk's flexibility and scalability for evolving business needs.

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Categories and Ranking

CA Unified Communications M...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

87th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

67th

Average Rating

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Unified Communications Monitoring (3rd)

Splunk Observability Cloud

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

7th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (6th), Container Management (6th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of CA Unified Communications Monitor is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 1.4%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud	1.4%
CA Unified Communications Monitor	0.5%
Other	98.1%

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itarchit489981

IT Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Good end-to-end voice quality monitoring and offers valuable features

The solution should have automatic baseline detection. On the per hour, per base, per week. That's usually the best. And on a per individual CI level. I know that they're working on it and when that's available then we will definitely implement it because it will reduce the effort we need to maintain all the products. Right now we have to set thresholds for every location, and it needs to be actually dynamic so if we have better thresholding, we'll have faster alarms across all our locations. We won't have to expend effort on it by resetting or checking them on a regular basis.

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Taiwo Ige

IT Operations Engineer at ABC Supply Co. Inc.

Alerting improves incident response across teams and enables faster awareness before customer impact

Splunk Observability Cloud could be improved in terms of integrations with more technical add-ons, such as Zoom. Although they have one with Zoom, it's not available in the cloud, so having that feature would be beneficial. Essentially, Splunk should continue expanding to create easier ways to ingest logs from different products. The out-of-the-box customizable dashboards in Splunk Observability Cloud are very effective in showcasing IT performance to business leaders. However, there are aspects that could be improved, such as linking dashboards to one another. While IT leaders may not drill down, it's crucial to create levels of dashboards for technical users to find root causes, making it effective for stakeholders.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We use the solution to meet the needs of the customer."

"Good end-to-end monitoring"

"The best feature of this product is the latency and processing of all the telemetry that is being received, which gives full visibility at the right time."

"It has been beneficial for our IT infrastructure."

"What I appreciate most about Splunk Observability Cloud is the correlation feature, specifically the ease of correlating logs and issues to those traces to see where within the path of the business function is failing."

"It is very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments. It's like a single pane of glass for us. We can use it to monitor our on-prem and both of our cloud environments as opposed to having different tools for each environment. It makes it all come together in one tool."

"It supports proactive management, enhances security, and improves operational efficiency."

"The data collection from our VMs, containers, databases, and backend components is valuable."

"I have primarily used it to go back into the past and understand why something happened. It provides enough information to do research and figure things out."

"The solution's basic visibility is one of its most valuable features. So, it is a solution that is easy to use...The solution's initial setup process was straightforward."

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Cons

"The solution should have automatic baseline detection."

"All the features and functions of the solution can be improved."

"Particularly what we're having is disconnection from the cloud console, where we will be working in it and receive a message saying that we've been disconnected and have to wait for it to come up."

"The main improvement I would suggest for Splunk Observability Cloud would be offering the ability to implement custom apps, specifically allowing Python scripts that Splunk Cloud could host."

"The integrations need to be improved for Splunk Observability Cloud."

"It would be beneficial to have more enhanced features with capabilities to adapt more integrated applications. Improvements in dashboard configuration, customization, and artificial intelligence functionalities are desired."

"When we have too many detectors in place for one particular app, such as when I have created 50+ detectors through my account, the entire page becomes a bit loaded when creating the 51st detector, feeling heavy and taking time to load."

"It's a bit difficult to use. It takes some time to get into it and to get it to do what you would like it to do. It is not straightforward to use it."

"The price has room for improvement."

"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Splunk's infrastructure monitoring costs can be high because our billing is based on data volume measured in terabytes, rather than the number of devices being monitored."

"It appears to be expensive compared to competitors."

"Splunk has been fairly expensive, but it has been predictable."

"This is an expensive solution."

"The solution's pricing is competitive. I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten. The price of the solution could be cheaper."

"I am not in that circle, but we are currently licensing based on our queries. That is working out for us. Previously, it was by volume of data, and now, we can store as much data as we want."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"Splunk APM is expensive."

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Also Known As

CA UC Monitor

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM), Splunk Synthetic Monitoring

Overview

CA Unified Communications Monitor is a unified communications monitoring solution that evaluates and reports on the network’s support of real-time applications in multi-vendor environments, so that Network Administrators can optimize the network’s quality of service and end user experience.

Broadcom

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 troubleshooting insights. However, improvements in integrations, interface customization, scalability, and automation are needed. Users find value in its capabilities for infrastructure and network monitoring, as well as log analytics, albeit cost considerations and better documentation are desired. Enhancements in real-time monitoring and network protection are also noted as areas for development.

What are the key features?

Log Searching: Efficiently search and analyze logs from various sources.
Data Integration: Seamlessly integrate with multiple environments.
Dashboard Customization: Tailor dashboards to specific monitoring needs.
Monitoring Capabilities: Provides comprehensive insights into application performance.
Security Features: Analyze and address security threats across systems.
Visualization Tools: Enhance data analysis and system performance optimization.

Why consider this for ROI?

Comprehensive Visibility: Gain complete insights into IT infrastructure.
Performance Optimization: Improve overall system performance and efficiency.
Rapid Deployment: Quick setup to meet organization demands swiftly.
Enhanced Security: Strengthen security measures through detailed analytics.

In industries, Splunk Observability Cloud is implemented for security management by analyzing logs from detection systems, offering real-time alerts and troubleshooting for cloud-native applications. It is leveraged for machine data analysis, improving infrastructure visibility and supporting network and application performance management efforts.

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Sample Customers

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Sunrun, Yelp, Onshape, Tapjoy, Symphony Commerce, Chairish, Clever, Grovo, Bazaar Voice, Zenefits, Avalara

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