Dell CloudIQ vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

Dell Technologies and Splunk are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Dell Technologies is ranked #33 with an average rating of 8.3, while Splunk is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.4. Dell Technologies holds a 0.9% mindshare in IM, compared to Splunk’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

Dell CloudIQ

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90% willing to recommend

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

Splunk Observability Cloud and Dell CloudIQ both compete in the cloud monitoring category. Splunk appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set and high adaptability across multiple environments.

Features: Splunk Observability Cloud offers comprehensive log gathering, rapid log searching, and custom dashboards. It excels in real-time problem-solving and integrates well with AI for analytics and detection. Dell CloudIQ is valued for its centralized server monitoring, predictive AI capabilities, and a focus on storage device health.

Room for Improvement: Users of Splunk Observability Cloud suggest enhancements in tool integration, configuration ease, cost efficiency, and documentation. Dell CloudIQ users recommend better integration with non-Dell systems and improvements in predictive maintenance features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Splunk Observability Cloud is available for on-premises, public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments, with generally positive customer service feedback. Dell CloudIQ supports private, public, and hybrid clouds, offering responsive and sufficient customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Splunk Observability Cloud is perceived as expensive, but users see its value in comprehensive capabilities and reduced downtime. Dell CloudIQ is seen as cost-effective, often bundled with Dell solutions, offering value to users within the Dell ecosystem.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell CloudIQ

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

33rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Splunk Observability Cloud

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (8th), Network Monitoring Software (6th), Cloud Monitoring Software (6th), Container Management (6th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Dell CloudIQ is 0.9%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 2.0%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud	2.0%
Dell CloudIQ	0.9%
Other	97.1%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Haseeb Sheikh

Senior Manager Enterprise Solutions at a media company with 201-500 employees

Proactive monitoring has improved availability and capacity reporting for my infrastructure

The current features including availability, performance, and capacity are good enough, and I think more of better alerting along with improved thresholds of alerts should be implemented. It is helpful, but it should also include the capability to detect zero-day attacks if there are any. I think the remediation could have been better. For example, if I am upgrading my firmware or BIOS or firmware of the infrastructure, it should give me exact CVSS scores and remediation data provided against the CVSS scores. I think the Dell CloudIQ app could be more interactive. If there is a possibility that I can open tickets or SRs via the Dell CloudIQ app, that would be a good feature.

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Dhananjay Dileep

Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Unified monitoring has improved end-to-end visibility and reduced detection time across apps

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. Additionally, it throws random errors; for example, when we try to save one detector, it might throw some random error which is not even related, with something else being wrong, not that particular error, but the underlying root cause might be different. Sometimes the error is just "some problem occurred," and we are not able to point out what the real cause is. This mainly happens when we have too many detectors or too many alerts in place rather than a standard number. One more thing is in the alert rules; if we have a main general alert, and instead of creating a new detector, we are adding a new rule under one detector, when the number of rules also increases, such as when we have 10 or 15 rules under one generic detector, that again creates the same kind of problem, taking some time to save that particular newly added rule, and it might not save at times, just keeps on spinning. Those are the two drawbacks which I spotted recently; other than that, everything looks perfect.

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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

"I rate CloudIQ a ten out of ten."

"Fewer vulnerabilities have been observed in the four years we have used the solution."

"Has really nice roll-up dashboards."

"The dashboard is clear and user-friendly."

"The best thing about this solution is that you can check for the infrastructure and system updates that you might need to be compliant with the Cloud."

"CloudIQ allows us to monitor our servers centrally, and we can receive notifications in case of issues, like a potential hard drive failure."

"The dashboard is clear and user-friendly."

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"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."

"Splunk's dashboards are great."

"We haven't really experienced any glitches or bugs."

"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."

"The dashboards in Splunk Observability Cloud are amazing, and if you configure them correctly, they are amazing, and it is quite fast as well."

"Customer service and technical support respond very quickly."

"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."

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Cons

"Supporting legacy systems is an area that can be improved."

"I think the remediation could have been better."

"The reporting capabilities of this solution could be improved."

"The process of upgrading could be streamlined."

"There is a need for improvement in predictive maintenance, which I assume is somewhat AI-driven."

"Doesn't do well in terms of integrating with technologies other than Dell."

"The main limitation of CloudIQ is that it is intended to be used exclusively with Dell hardware."

"Getting through support has become a difficult thing. Dell's support has degraded since they took over EMC. It's a bit difficult to use."

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"Integrating some third-party add-ons can be challenging, involving many implementation and configuration steps."

"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."

"Splunk Observability Cloud has not yet completely improved our operational performance for our company's resilience as we are just starting out, however, it will help us ultimately to reduce incident time."

"The price has room for improvement."

"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."

"Splunk Observability Cloud could be improved in terms of integrations with more technical add-ons, such as Zoom."

"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."

"The user interface of Splunk Observability Cloud needs a lot of work."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is more expensive than NetApp which offers file systems in various price ranges."

"I believe it is a free product because we don't pay for it."

"Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive."

"Splunk APM is a very cost-efficient solution."

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

"The price of Splunk APM is less than some of its competitors."

"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is an expensive solution."

"Splunk Observability Cloud is expensive."

"Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

No data available

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	47

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Dell CloudIQ?

It can improve the reporting facility to create custom reports or dashboards.

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What is your primary use case for Dell CloudIQ?

I use it for monitoring environment security today. I look at security, capacity, and availability in our environment.

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What advice do you have for others considering Dell CloudIQ?

I would rate the overall product an eight out of ten.

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What do you like most about SignalFx?

The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.

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What needs improvement with SignalFx?

Regarding dashboard customization, while Splunk has many dashboard building options, customers sometimes need to create specific dashboards, particularly for applicative metrics such as Java and pr...

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What is your primary use case for SignalFx?

The solution involves observability in general, such as Application Performance Monitoring, and generally addresses digital applications, web applications, sites, and mobile applications. I worked ...

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Also Known As

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

Overview

CloudIQ is a no cost Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that provides a simple monitoring interface for an unlimited number of Unity systems. CloudIQ accesses data in near real time to enable monitoring and troubleshooting for Unity systems.

Dell Technologies

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.

Splunk

Sample Customers

North Carolina State University

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

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