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ScienceLogic vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

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
7.0
ScienceLogic enhances efficiency, visibility, and reduces incidents, providing long-term ROI and improved company image and operations.
Sentiment score
6.9
Splunk Observability Cloud boosts ROI with improved efficiency, reduced downtime, faster problem resolution, and significant operational savings.
The return on investment is fair but often challenged by medium-sized businesses who may question its adequacy.
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
Using Splunk has saved my organization about 30% of our budget compared to using multiple different monitoring products.
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.
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.
IT Operations Engineer at ABC Supply Co. Inc.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.8
ScienceLogic's support is praised for responsiveness, expertise, and proactive problem-solving, often deemed industry-leading by users.
Sentiment score
7.1
Splunk Observability Cloud's customer service is responsive and helpful but experiences issues with delays and limited staffing in regions.
Problems with Skylar may require longer wait times due to limited resource expertise.
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
I received excellent support from ScienceLogic.
Chief Architect - Cloud Xperienz Platform - CIS Technology Office at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
We have a lab environment to test solutions before offering them to customers, ensuring everything works correctly.
Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy
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
They often require multiple questions, with five or six emails to get a response.
Splunk Observability Expert
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
ScienceLogic excels in scalability and adaptability, supporting large deployments, though minor challenges exist in hardware and user onboarding.
Sentiment score
7.3
Splunk Observability Cloud scales well but can be costly, requiring careful management of pricing and metric limits.
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
I would rate its scalability a nine out of ten.
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
ScienceLogic is reliable and stable, with strong support, handling large volumes efficiently despite minor bugs during upgrades.
Sentiment score
7.7
Splunk Observability Cloud offers reliable performance with minimal issues, quickly resolving occasional glitches, leading to high user satisfaction.
Stability should relate to whether the platform fails, stops working, or breaks.
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
I would rate its stability a nine out of ten.
Head of DevOps at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We rarely have problems accessing the dashboard or the page.
Splunk Observability Expert
Unlike NetScout or regular agents for APM, RUM has many problems during the POC phase because customer environments vary widely.
General Manager at MOCOMSYS
 

Room For Improvement

ScienceLogic struggles with complexity, requiring UI simplification, integration improvements, better support, and enhanced monitoring and automation features.
Splunk Observability Cloud needs improved integration, cost transparency, better UI, enhanced AI, customization, stability, and streamlined processes.
While some other companies have easier APIs, using this solution demands significant expertise.
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
If the knowledge for implementation could be spread through articles, it would reduce this dependency.
Chief Architect - Cloud Xperienz Platform - CIS Technology Office at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Integrating observability and APM monitoring into the overall portfolio would be beneficial.
Solution Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
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 is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available.
Head of DevOps at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
 

Setup Cost

ScienceLogic offers flexible but potentially costly pricing, emphasizing understanding business needs to justify its robust capabilities.
Splunk Observability Cloud is costly but offers negotiable and flexible pricing justified by its features and solutions.
It could be cheaper.
Solution Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
ScienceLogic is not that expensive and is cost-effective overall.
Chief Architect - Cloud Xperienz Platform - CIS Technology Office at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Splunk is a bit expensive since it charges based on the indexing rate of data.
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.
Solutions Architect at Ikusi
It appears to be expensive compared to competitors.
Head of DevOps at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
 

Valuable Features

ScienceLogic delivers versatile IT management with robust monitoring, automation, and integration, ensuring efficient operations across diverse infrastructures.
Splunk Observability Cloud offers user-friendly dashboards, AI analytics, and seamless integration, improving visibility, issue resolution, and operational performance.
Notably, its automation features, such as Runbook action, enable domain experts like me to execute one-click automation solutions, which contributes significantly to reducing MTTR.
Chief Architect - Cloud Xperienz Platform - CIS Technology Office at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
The solution excels in three areas: application monitoring, server monitoring, and network performance monitoring.
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
The CMDB update and the automatic CMDB update are valuable.
Solution Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ 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 a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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

ScienceLogic
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
16th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
14th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
12th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (6th), Unified Communications Monitoring (1st), Server Monitoring (10th), IT Operations Analytics (4th), AIOps (10th)
Splunk Observability Cloud
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
6th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
7th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (8th), Container Management (6th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of ScienceLogic is 1.1%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 1.3%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud1.3%
ScienceLogic1.1%
Other97.6%
Network Monitoring Software
 

Featured Reviews

Michael Wenn - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
Offers comprehensive monitoring and tool consolidation but integration complexity needs improvement
There is room for improvement in the speed of setting up the service and integrating PowerPacks. Although these prebuilt features are great, there is considerable complexity in bringing them together to create a unified dashboard. Even with many good integrations and deep visibility, the implementation takes time, especially when it doesn't involve these integrations. While some other companies have easier APIs, using this solution demands significant expertise. It's challenging for new customers to implement independently. The implementation speed of non-PowerPack or non-out-of-the-box integrations should be improved. Additionally, the AI automation feature is not yet very rich due to resource constraints supporting a wide platform.
Dhananjay Dileep - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise24
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise47
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ScienceLogic?
The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ScienceLogic?
ScienceLogic is not that expensive and is cost-effective overall.
What needs improvement with ScienceLogic?
I am interested in improving the flexibility of ScienceLogic's user interface, configuration, and customization. I am particularly keen on learning about issues raised by the ScienceLogic support t...
What do you like most about SignalFx?
The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.
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 ...
 

Also Known As

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

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Kellogg Company, Booz Allen, Cisco, Red Bull, Fidelus, Telstra, Comcast, CSC, Peak 10, HughesNet, Hosting, Datapipe, US Army, Equinix, Rite Aid, Carbonite, Sybase, Carpathia, AT&T, ePlus, Dimension Data, Virtustream, Boeing, Honeywell
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