InfluxDB vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

InfluxData and Splunk are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. InfluxData is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.5, while Splunk is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3. InfluxData holds a 0.3% mindshare in NMS, compared to Splunk’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of InfluxData users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

InfluxDB and Splunk Observability Cloud compete in the observability and monitoring space. Splunk seems to have the upper hand in large-scale cloud-native environments due to advanced monitoring capabilities and AI-driven insights.

Features: InfluxDB stands out with time-series data management, powerful data aggregation, Grafana integration, a SQL-like query language, and a range of flexible plugins. Splunk Observability Cloud delivers extensive visualization, real-time alerts, custom dashboards, and robust log integration, particularly excelling in application performance monitoring.

Room for Improvement: InfluxDB could enhance its user interface, error logging, clustering, high availability features, and documentation for secure integration. Splunk Observability Cloud users report pricing as a significant drawback, along with challenges in scalability and integration with third-party tools, particularly in Azure environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: InfluxDB is praised for its community support, quickly solving problems without needing direct technical support. Splunk Observability Cloud offers comprehensive documentation but faces criticism for complex deployment processes, leading to more frequent interactions with tech support.

Pricing and ROI: InfluxDB's open-source model provides cost efficiency with some features incurring additional costs. Users highlight the lack of licensing fees for basic use. Splunk Observability Cloud is considered expensive, but its rich features justify the costs for many. Users experience a fair balance between cost and extensive functionality despite pricing concerns.

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InfluxDB vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

5.4

InfluxDB mainly improved data management efficiency and streamlined processes, reducing project management personnel, but economic advantages varied.

Sentiment score

6.6

Splunk Observability Cloud enhances productivity, reduces downtime, boosts efficiency, and improves IT operations through real-time insights and integration.

It simplifies processes and reduces the need for additional employees.

Mugeesh Husain

Team Lead, Software at Energybox

InfluxDB reduced my time to show data without any interruption, also reducing the number of people needed to manage the project; it is very good to have InfluxDB in my project.

Btece Lodi

Student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Time saved is there, as I mentioned, because we have an analytics system from where we get alerting and monitoring.

Manas Kashyap

Senior DevOps engineer at Elevenxcapital

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Using Splunk has saved my organization about 30% of our budget compared to using multiple different monitoring products.

reviewer1469784

Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Anyone working in front-end management should recognize the market price to see the true value of end-user monitoring.

EdwardShim

General Manager at MOCOMSYS

I have definitely seen a return on investment with Splunk Observability Cloud, particularly through how fast it has grown and how comfortable other teams are in relying on its outputs for monitoring and observability.

Taiwo Ige

IT Operations Engineer at ABC Supply Co. Inc.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.7

Users find community and documentation helpful, with slower support response times unless premium support is utilized for quicker assistance.

Sentiment score

7.1

Splunk Observability Cloud support is praised for responsiveness, but concerns include delays, clarity issues, and high premium support costs.

Obtaining that quantity of data directly from InfluxDB is quite challenging, and that is why we ask for help from the InfluxDB team to retrieve the data to avoid timeouts and those kinds of issues.

Mugeesh Husain

Team Lead, Software at Energybox

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On a scale of 1 to 10, the customer service and technical support deserve a 10.

reviewer2755917

Systems Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

They have consistently helped us resolve any issues we've encountered.

Juan Baez

Software Engineer at UKG

They often require multiple questions, with five or six emails to get a response.

Abdelmonam LABBOUZ

Splunk Observability Expert

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

InfluxDB is scalable with efficient data management; high throughput challenges may need systems like Kafka for optimization.

Sentiment score

7.1

Splunk Observability Cloud efficiently scales with business demands, but users face challenges with costs, time series limits, and metrics management.

The main challenge with InfluxDB, which is common with all databases, was handling very high throughput systems and high throughput message flow.

Sayak Roy

Deployment Engineer at Derq

We’ve scaled on volume with seven years of continuous data without performance degradation.

Henning Jansen

Senior System Developer at Norled

InfluxDB's scalability is fine for me; I gather a lot of metrics and have not had any issues.

reviewer2778060

Network engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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We've used the solution across more than 250 people, including engineers.

Abdelmonam LABBOUZ

Splunk Observability Expert

As we are a growing company transitioning all our applications to the cloud, and with the increasing number of cloud-native applications, Splunk Observability Cloud will help us achieve digital resiliency and reduce our mean time to resolution.

Lalatendu Swain

Application Developer at UMB Financial

I would rate its scalability a nine out of ten.

reviewer1469784

Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

InfluxDB is stable and reliable, with minor issues resolved through integration, despite AWS and Azure China difficulties.

Sentiment score

7.6

Users rate Splunk Observability Cloud highly for stability, with minor issues rarely impacting its overall reliability and performance.

It serves as the backbone of our application, and its stability is crucial.

Henning Jansen

Senior System Developer at Norled

It is very stable, with no reliability or downtime in InfluxDB.

Btece Lodi

Student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

After integrating Kafka, it never broke again, as Kafka handled messages and metrics appropriately, decreasing the message throughput.

Sayak Roy

Deployment Engineer at Derq

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When downtime occurs, it raises concerns about how we measure and receive alerts, as everything needs to be in place.

reviewer2800332

Aws Dev Ops Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I would rate its stability a nine out of ten.

Muhammad M

Head of DevOps at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We rarely have problems accessing the dashboard or the page.

Abdelmonam LABBOUZ

Splunk Observability Expert

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Room For Improvement

InfluxDB's complexity and limited documentation hinder integration and scalability; improvements are needed in features, pricing, and availability.

Users recommend enhancing Splunk Observability Cloud's security, integrations, real-time data, UI, documentation, support, and performance to improve its feature set.

InfluxDB deprecated FluxQL, which was intuitive since developers are already familiar with standard querying.

Milan Predic

Chief Technology Officer at Presta Agency

Having a SQL abstraction in InfluxDB could be beneficial, making it more accessible for teams that prefer querying with SQL-style syntax.

Henning Jansen

Senior System Developer at Norled

It could include automated backup and a monitoring solution for InfluxDB or a script developed by a REST API.

reviewer2778060

Network engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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The out-of-the-box customizable dashboards in Splunk Observability Cloud are very effective in showcasing IT performance to business leaders.

Taiwo Ige

IT Operations Engineer at ABC Supply Co. Inc.

The next release of Splunk Observability Cloud should include a feature that makes it so that when looking at charts and dashboards, and also looking at one environment regardless of the product feature that you're in, APM, infrastructure, RUM, the environment that is chosen in the first location when you sign into Splunk Observability Cloud needs to stay persistent all the way through.

Sarah Van Zee

Systems Monitoring Engineer II at a government with 10,001+ employees

There should be a solution to update OTeL agents from Splunk Observability Cloud itself.

HrishikeshNavkar

Senior Software Engineer at WorldPay US

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Setup Cost

InfluxDB's open-source version is cost-effective, but cloud and on-premise solutions require licenses, impacting overall costs.

Splunk Observability Cloud is often seen as expensive, though pricing predictability is valued compared to Dynatrace and AppDynamics.

We use the open-source version of InfluxDB, so it is free.

Henning Jansen

Senior System Developer at Norled

I find the cloud version pricing of InfluxDB reasonable, and for the on-premises solution we use in our service, we need to purchase licenses.

Mugeesh Husain

Team Lead, Software at Energybox

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for InfluxDB was great, as I did not use any license.

reviewer2778060

Network engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Splunk is a bit expensive since it charges based on the indexing rate of data.

reviewer1469784

Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is expensive, especially when there are other vendors that offer something similar for much cheaper.

Ernesto Gutierrez

Solutions Architect at Ikusi

It appears to be expensive compared to competitors.

Muhammad M

Head of DevOps at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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Valuable Features

InfluxDB is a powerful time series database with strong integration, performance, and features for diverse data analysis projects.

Splunk Observability Cloud enhances monitoring with real-time insights, AI analytics, and OpenTelemetry support, improving digital resilience and performance.

The most important feature for us is low latency, which is crucial in building a high-performance engine for day trading.

Milan Predic

Chief Technology Officer at Presta Agency

InfluxDB’s core functionality is crucial as it allows us to store our data and execute queries with excellent response times.

Henning Jansen

Senior System Developer at Norled

It helps me maintain my solution easily because it is very reliable, so we didn't face any performance issues or crashes regarding our queries; we can get the results very fast.

reviewer2761710

Solutions Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

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Splunk provides advanced notifications of roadblocks in the application, which helps us to improve and avoid impacts during high-volume days.

reviewer1469784

Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

For troubleshooting, we can detect problems in seconds, which is particularly helpful for digital teams.

Abdelmonam LABBOUZ

Splunk Observability Expert

It offers unified visibility for logs, metrics, and traces.

Mary Vasantha Golleru

Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

InfluxDB

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

11th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

14th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Non-Relational Databases (1st), Open Source Databases (7th), NoSQL Databases (4th)

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 InfluxDB is 0.3%, down from 0.4% 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%
InfluxDB	0.3%
Other	98.3%

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Featured Reviews

Mugeesh Husain

Team Lead, Software at Energybox

Time series data has been managed efficiently for IoT sensors but reporting still needs improvement

How InfluxDB can be improved is relevant since for Energy Box, we face certain issues. We have customers worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe, but when we expanded to China two years ago, they indicated that they do not support the cloud version there. Our application is built on the cloud, which required us to create a separate application for Azure China, which was painful for us. The second issue involves frequent version changes. For example, we started with version one, transitioned to version two, and I heard they are considering InfluxDB version three, reverting to earlier practices. InfluxDB should improve without completely changing its approach. Now we have to redo our work for InfluxDB version three. Regarding needed improvements, the documentation is sufficient, but pricing presents a challenge. InfluxDB has standard pricing, which is acceptable for large companies. However, for startups in our position, they should provide special discounts so everyone can utilize it. The pricing should adapt as companies grow, which is a reasonable expectation.

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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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

10%

University

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	50

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about InfluxDB?

InfluxDB is a database where you can insert data. However, it would be best if you had different components for alerting, data sending, and visualization. You need to install tools to collect data ...

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What needs improvement with InfluxDB?

Although I didn't encounter any significant challenges, I think that if there was a NoSQL version of InfluxDB, that would also help because I have used the SQL version. I wish InfluxDB were also av...

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What is your primary use case for InfluxDB?

My main use case for InfluxDB involved working on a LEO satellite KPI monitoring application, where I gathered latency, throughput, packet loss, jitter, and various types of network data for severa...

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

Overview

InfluxDB is open-source software that helps developers and enterprises alike to collect, store, process, and visualize time series data and to build next-generation applications. InfluxDB provides monitoring and insight on IoT, application, system, container, and infrastructure quickly and easily without complexities or compromises in scale, speed, or productivity.

InfluxDB has become a popular insight system for unified metrics and events enabling the most demanding SLAs. InfluxDB is used in just about every type of industry across a wide range of use cases, including network monitoring, IoT monitoring, industrial IoT, and infrastructure and application monitoring.

InfluxDB offers its users:

Infrastructure and application monitoring: Collect, process, and analyze real-time data from edge devices to help optimize distributed infrastructure.

IoT monitoring and analytics: InfluxDB is designed to store large volumes of time series data and quickly perform real-time analysis on that data. Gain insights from all the sensor data and use the collected data to create and perform automated tasks.

Network monitoring: Manage responsive and high-performing networks with widely distributed resources.

InfluxDB Benefits

There are several benefits to using InfluxDB . Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

APIs and ready toolset: InfluxDB can be accessed via a set of powerful tools enabling users to get started quickly, with less programming required. This includes a REST API, extensive client libraries, a wide variety of open-source integrations, and Flux - a functional data scripting language for querying, analysis, and events. The InfluxDB API can be used to write data from edge devices to the InfluxDB instance

Time series engine: Get any data - events, logs, traces - from any edge device - systems, sensors, queues, databases, and networks. This data is stored in a powerful and high-performing engine capable of ingesting millions of data points per second.

Community: InfluxDB has a large community of cloud and open-source developers ready to assist users.

Ready-made templates: Use InfluxDB Templates, a set of tools with a packager and other ready monitoring solutions. These tools allow users to share their monitoring expertise with coworkers and other community members around the world. The Templates gallery offers available templates for some of the most popular tools and applications.

Enhanced UI: InfluxDB’s UI includes an explorer, dashboarding tools, and a script editor. Use it to easily browse the collected metric and event data and apply common transformations. The dashboarding tool comes with a variety of visualization options that help users view insights from the data. The script editor assists users to quickly master Flux with easily accessible examples, auto-completion, and real-time syntax checking.

Reviews from Real Users

InfluxDB stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its flexible integration options and its data aggregation feature.

Shalauddin Ahamad S., a software engineer at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features are aggregating the data and the integration with Grafana for monitoring.”

InfluxData

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

ebay, AXA, Mozilla, DiDi, LeTV, Siminars, Cognito, ProcessOut, Recommend, CATS, Smarsh, Row 44, Clustree, Bleemeo

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

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