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Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

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
7.1
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform enhances ROI by optimizing resources, reducing costs, and improving security, deployment, and management efficiency.
Sentiment score
5.9
Teams using Splunk report increased efficiency, reduced downtime, cost savings, enhanced multitasking, and improved operational performance through seamless integration.
Improvement in security and management.
Associate Systems Engineer at Dhanyaayai Enterprises Pvt Ltd
We have saved considerable amounts of money, reducing our expenditures from around three to four crores to approximately one to one point two crores.
Deputy General Manager at Agriculture Skill Council of India
We have been able to save a great deal of money, and our profits have increased by twenty percent.
Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)
We've been able to lower our mean time to resolution and make sure that we are resilient and quickly recover from disasters.
Enterprise Account Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Rafay's customer service is responsive and knowledgeable, effectively assisting with Kubernetes issues and receiving high satisfaction ratings.
Sentiment score
7.2
Splunk Observability Cloud's customer support is praised for promptness and availability, with generally high satisfaction despite occasional regional delays.
The support team helps with deployment, operational, and troubleshooting issues.
Associate Systems Engineer at Dhanyaayai Enterprises Pvt Ltd
I would rate the customer support around 8 or 9 out of 10.
Associate System Engineer at Dhanyaayai Enterprise Private
We haven't had any issues with the customer support of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform.
Software Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
On a scale of 1 to 10, the customer service and technical support deserve a 10.
Systems Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
They have consistently helped us resolve any issues we've encountered.
Software Engineer at UKG
The customer support system is the foundational pillar of any successful business.
Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform excels in multi-cloud scalability and centralized management, though occasionally lags during high-throughput log streaming.
Sentiment score
7.0
Splunk Observability Cloud is highly scalable and flexible, adapting seamlessly to growing infrastructures despite occasional cost concerns.
Scalability is one of the great features of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform as it supports large environments, multi-cloud deployment, and thousands of workloads for different users.
Associate Systems Engineer at Dhanyaayai Enterprises Pvt Ltd
I believe Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform has good scalability, making it easy to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters from one platform as our environment grew.
Associate System Engineer at Dhanyaayai Enterprise Private
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform's scalability is great, but sometimes when we are trying to stream logs and there is a lot of throughput, it can be laggy.
CTO at a construction company with 11-50 employees
We've used the solution across more than 250 people, including engineers.
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.
Application Developer at UMB Financial
We have never seen any kind of downtime or crashes, as it has been absolutely very easy to scale.
Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is reliable, with minor improvements needed, mainly due to external factors affecting performance.
Sentiment score
7.9
Splunk Observability Cloud is stable and reliable, with minor performance issues affecting some users during specific events.
In my experience, I found Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform to be stable and reliable for day-to-day operations.
Associate System Engineer at Dhanyaayai Enterprise Private
When downtime occurs, it raises concerns about how we measure and receive alerts, as everything needs to be in place.
Aws Dev Ops Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Splunk Observability Cloud is very stable.
Software Engineer at Titanslab Inc.
It is highly scalable because it can handle approximately up to one hundred applications at a time without any lapse or lag.
Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)
 

Room For Improvement

Rafay Kubernetes Platform needs better tool integration, cost visibility, infrastructure support, documentation, and customizable dashboards for improved usability.
Splunk Observability Cloud users face setup complexities, pricing concerns, and seek enhanced GUI, integration, and improved AI functionalities.
The onboarding part and documentation of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform can be improved because new persons in my team sometimes feel that the documentation requires some time to understand.
Software Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
While Kubernetes doesn't have a default dashboard, you can deploy one.
Associate System Engineer at Dhanyaayai enterprise private limited
I would say better product documentation, more detailed troubleshooting information in the UI, and more customizable dashboards would make it even easier to use, especially for new users learning Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform.
Associate System Engineer at Dhanyaayai Enterprise Private
The out-of-the-box customizable dashboards in Splunk Observability Cloud are very effective in showcasing IT performance to business leaders.
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.
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.
Senior Software Engineer at WorldPay US
 

Setup Cost

Splunk Observability Cloud offers robust features, though opinions vary on its pricing, particularly for large-scale deployments.
My experience with pricing shows that Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is an enterprise platform, so the licensing cost is somewhat higher than other Kubernetes tools.
Associate Systems Engineer at Dhanyaayai Enterprises Pvt Ltd
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing as an engineer working on it was that it felt reasonable.
CTO at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Splunk is a bit expensive since it charges based on the indexing rate of data.
Senior Manager at Bank of America
It is expensive, especially when there are other vendors that offer something similar for much cheaper.
Solutions Architect at Ikusi
I can confidently say our availability improved by forty percent, and downtime was reduced by approximately seventy to eighty percent.
Splunk Engineer at a recruiting/HR firm with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform streamlines multi-cluster management, enhances security, supports multi-cloud, and automates deployment with GitOps integration.
Splunk Observability Cloud offers real-time monitoring, AI insights, and integrations, enhancing performance tracking, efficiency, and incident resolution.
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform's RBAC policy helps my team by giving each user specific roles for managing the cluster, which makes RBAC integration easier and ensures that users do not have access to all clusters, thereby increasing security.
Associate Systems Engineer at Dhanyaayai Enterprises Pvt Ltd
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform has positively impacted my organization by making it a lot easier to have observability with distributed systems and also by lowering the barrier of entry for other teammates using Kubernetes.
CTO at a construction company with 11-50 employees
The best feature I will mention of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is the centralized multi-cluster management feature, which allows us not to worry about accessing different clusters, as it provides us with a single interface through which we can manage all the different users, namespaces, and cluster resources.
Software Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
Splunk provides advanced notifications of roadblocks in the application, which helps us to improve and avoid impacts during high-volume days.
Senior Manager at Bank of America
For troubleshooting, we can detect problems in seconds, which is particularly helpful for digital teams.
Splunk Observability Expert
It offers unified visibility for logs, metrics, and traces.
Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Rafay Kubernetes Operations...
Ranking in Container Management
13th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Observability Cloud
Ranking in Container Management
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
105
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (5th), Network Monitoring Software (4th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (3rd), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is 1.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 1.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud1.9%
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform1.0%
Other97.1%
Container Management
 

Featured Reviews

Prathamesh Misal - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate System Engineer at Dhanyaayai Enterprise Private
Centralized platform has simplified multi-cluster management and standardized Kubernetes operations
One of the best features of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is its centralized multi-cluster management, allowing me to manage clusters from a single platform instead of managing each cluster separately. Another useful feature is role-based access control, which allows teams to securely access clusters without sharing all the kubeconfig files. I found its integration with GitOps and CI/CD pipelines very helpful for automating application deployments, and observability dashboards provide lifecycle management, policy, and governance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments such as VMware, AWS, and cloud platforms. These features are what I appreciate about Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform. GitOps made our deployment process much more consistent. Instead of making manual changes directly on the cluster, we kept our Kubernetes manifest in Git. Whenever there was a change, it went through version control, allowing us to easily track who changed what and roll back if needed. Observability dashboards were helpful for day-to-day monitoring, enabling us to quickly check cluster health, node status, resource utilization, and running workloads. If an application team reported an issue, the dashboard provided a quick overview of the cluster before we started troubleshooting with kubectl or checking pod logs. This is the impact of the GitOps integration and observability. Overall, Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform has simplified Kubernetes management by bringing cluster provisioning, access control, monitoring, and application management into one platform. It saved time, reduced manual work, and made managing multiple clusters much more efficient.
PK
Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)
Unified observability has improved real-time governance and now drives data-led decisions
Log Observer Connect is embedded here, but we are facing some delays in centralized log collection and analysis, which can be further fastened. We are collecting all the data metrics and decision-making insights, but all these data-driven decisions coming from different applications are not connected somewhere. A consolidated form or correlation of these insights is not happening between each other due to which we feel we are missing something significant. Some generalized feedback includes that predictive alerts or alarms which can be integrated with AI-driven alarms and alerting features should be established so that there is AI-driven intelligence and anomaly detection happening with a complete systematic process in service delivery. Application dependencies are huge, and business and operational dashboards should be improved. Right now there are very interactive custom dashboards, and every now and then, the personalization of enhancements keeps happening. KPI monitoring, executive reporting, and analytics have definitely been introduced to a great extent. There are few things in cloud-native monitoring, such as integration with AWS and Azure, where we sometimes do face lags. Those things can definitely be improved upon. I have used Datadog and Dynatrace before using Splunk Observability Cloud. Datadog was definitely recommended by most of our peers because of its very strong comprehensive observability and very strong and unique dashboard systems. Dynatrace was also very good because they have offered a lot of AI-driven analysis methods and processes, which was helping our organization a lot. Since our organization has a very strong IT ecosystem for agriculture, very different kinds of customized things are required.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
52%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Wholesaler/Distributor
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise70
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform?
Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform could be improved by improving the throughput. Sometimes when our pods are consuming a lot of data and the Kafka consumers are consuming a lot of data, the thro...
What is your primary use case for Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform?
My main use case for Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is observability, observing my pods and containers and performing admin work such as setting up Cron jobs. In my day-to-day work, I created...
What advice do you have for others considering Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform?
I would advise others looking into using Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform to definitely give it a shot, look into it, and review the documentation. I would make sure that they have reviewed the...
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...
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 ...
What advice do you have for others considering SignalFx?
We're a customer and end-user. Currently, in France, we cannot use the artificial intelligence option. While this option is enabled for the United States and many countries, it's not yet available ...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM), Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
 

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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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