SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability 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

4.5

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability cuts costs with unified monitoring, alerting, and downtime reduction, but some prefer Grafana.

Sentiment score

6.6

Organizations achieve significant ROI with Splunk Observability Cloud through efficiency, cost reduction, improved workflow, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities.

The primary return comes from its effectiveness, leading to significant cost savings, especially since we can create tenants and allow multiple countries to utilize the nodes through shared tools.

IT Network Coordinator (Northern Region) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It saves time by issuing alerts that notify engineers about problems or incidents.

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Business Developement Manager at I.ua

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

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Senior Manager at Bank of America

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.

Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.4

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability support is adequate, with varied response times and tailored needs in specific markets.

Sentiment score

7.3

Splunk Observability Cloud's support is well-rated for responsiveness, though users note delays and premium support pricing concerns.

the support is quick and meets service-level agreements

Business Developement Manager at I.ua

I get an instant response and on-call support as well.

Irshad_Khan

Solutions Architect at Cognizant

The complexities and internal processes in approvals necessitate a more tailored support approach, ensuring that assistance is relevant and timely.

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IT Network Coordinator (Northern Region) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Splunk Observability Expert

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.6

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability offers seamless scalability and high performance, with users praising its flexibility and robust hybrid model.

Sentiment score

7.1

Splunk Observability Cloud efficiently scales for growth despite high costs, with smooth deployment but challenges in custom metrics management.

The product is very easy to scale.

Business Developement Manager at I.ua

A single polling engine with enterprise supports up to 100 additional polling engines, monitoring up to 100,000 elements per instance.

reviewer2764029

Senior Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is great.

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IT Network Coordinator (Northern Region) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ 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.

Lalatendu Swain

Application Developer at UMB Financial

I would rate its scalability a nine out of ten.

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Senior Manager at Bank of America

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

6.3

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is generally stable, with rare downtimes mainly due to improper deployment and necessary upgrades.

Sentiment score

7.6

Splunk Observability Cloud is reliable with minor performance issues, users rate it 8-10, appreciating its cloud consistency.

In my current environment, we have experienced instability likely due to the deployment not meeting required standards.

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IT Network Coordinator (Northern Region) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have to put a lot of communication in place because if we are trying to take SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability down for upgrades, then obviously the entire observability or infrastructure monitoring is paused.

Kalyan Kothali

Associate Vice President at Wissen infotech

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.

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Splunk Observability Expert

Room For Improvement

SolarWinds needs AI enhancement, smoother integration, better support, intuitive dashboard, expanded compatibility, and improved documentation and setup.

Splunk Observability Cloud requires improvements in pricing, usability, integration, log management, scalability, AI, and customization for better functionality.

The solution could improve in areas such as CICD observability.

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Business Developement Manager at I.ua

The initial setup and configuration can also be complex for new users.

AshwaniSingh1

Quality Auditing Associate at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I think deeper integration into Kubernetes, serverless functions, and cloud-native tracing can be implemented as these matter to many organizations.

reviewer2764029

Senior Lead at a tech vendor 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.

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

SolarWinds offers reasonable node-based pricing, but renewal changes and regional variations necessitate strategic negotiations for optimal investment.

Enterprise buyers should consider Splunk Observability Cloud's variable pricing, influenced by data volume and deployment scale.

We approached SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability directly and the quotation that they gave was a very expensive one.

Kalyan Kothali

Associate Vice President at Wissen infotech

The pricing is mid-segment, which means it is neither cheap nor expensive compared to other products.

Business Developement Manager at I.ua

The new pricing models lack clarity in communication, bundling services that we may not actually need, leading to unnecessary costs.

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IT Network Coordinator (Northern Region) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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

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Senior Manager at Bank of America

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

Ernesto Gutierrez

Solutions Architect at Ikusi

I can confidently say our availability improved by forty percent, and downtime was reduced by approximately seventy to eighty percent.

Jigar Hirani

Splunk Engineer at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Valuable Features

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability provides comprehensive monitoring, proactive insights, and rapid troubleshooting for efficient multi-location network management.

Splunk Observability Cloud provides real-time monitoring, AI analytics, and seamless integration, offering scalability, user-friendliness, and critical insights.

It is easy to scale by increasing the count of observable objects, adding additional servers, and polling engines, which is crucial for enterprise-level projects.

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Business Developement Manager at I.ua

It has an alerting engine where I can define thresholds and configure custom alerts, which can also be integrated with ITSM or a ticketing system to auto-create tickets.

Irshad_Khan

Solutions Architect at Cognizant

Smart Alerts in SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability has been really helpful for our team. For instance, one day, a switch interface started hitting high utilization, which would have caused slowness in network traffic. SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability sent an alert immediately, so we could check the devices and fix the issue before users noticed any problem.

AshwaniSingh1

Quality Auditing Associate at a tech vendor 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 Bank of America

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

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Splunk Observability Expert

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

Mary Vasantha Golleru

Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Categories and Ranking

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Obs...

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

16th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Splunk Observability Cloud

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (7th), Network Monitoring Software (8th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (7th), Container Management (5th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is 1.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 2.3%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud	2.3%
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability	1.4%
Other	96.3%

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Featured Reviews

Kalyan Kothali

Associate Vice President at Wissen infotech

Unified dashboards have improved hybrid infrastructure monitoring and support daily operations

The dashboard and reporting can be improved. The way the dashboards are being configured and presented in SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability has certain challenges. The look and feel and ease of configuring are areas where we see difficulties. There are certain limitations where we are not able to select the range or live details. Specifically, I want to have a trend analysis on certain thresholds, but those are tricky and we are not able to do that. We are currently downloading that and then using Excel to represent it. Those kinds of features are missing as of now. AI features in SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability, we only started this in 2024. We are still stabilizing the environment. AI is the next thing, so we did not start looking into that yet. Even the dashboards that we are trying to build to understand the trend analysis in SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability show always the live information. What is the current state, how many monitors, how many are green, how many are amber, where we have warnings, what are at risk, is the live information that we could build from the dashboard. When trying to analyze the thresholds or how much increase we need to make, or what the trend is happening, getting into those details is difficult. Building those kind of reports is a tricky one. We struggle a lot in that area.

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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

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	53

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability?

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is device-based. How many devices we want to bring on board determines the cost. Technically, we have built multiple clusters based on the regions that we want...

What needs improvement with SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability?

Regarding AI features in SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability, we currently depend on other AI features such as BigPanda and other tools. There are some improvements in correlation, but it is stil...

What is your primary use case for SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability?

Most valuable features of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability compared to the previous platform are not immediately apparent. However, since we have not fully moved to SaaS, I cannot comment on t...

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The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.

What needs improvement with SignalFx?

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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

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability enhances IT operations with comprehensive visibility across hybrid environments for improved performance and uptime.

Providing a unified platform, SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability allows IT teams to manage, monitor, and optimize both on-premises and cloud resources. It integrates seamlessly with existing tools, improving efficiency with robust data analytics and visualization. Its advanced features decrease time-to-resolution for system issues and help maintain system health.

What are the most important features of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability?

Comprehensive Visibility: Provides insights into network, application, and infrastructure performance.
Seamless Integration: Works with cloud and on-premises systems for unified management.
Data Analytics: Leverages advanced analytics for performance monitoring and optimization.
Visualization Tools: Offers dashboards and visual representations of key performance indicators.
Scalability: Adapts to growing business needs with flexible deployment options.

Which benefits and ROI aspects should users look for?

Improved System Uptime: Reduces downtime with proactive monitoring.
Efficient Resource Allocation: Optimizes resource usage for cost savings.
Faster Issue Resolution: Decreases time required to identify and fix issues.
Enhanced IT Productivity: Streamlines workflows, enabling more focus on strategic activities.

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is implemented across multiple industries like healthcare, finance, and manufacturing to ensure reliable performance and security of IT ecosystems. Its adaptability and comprehensive coverage make it a favored choice for enterprises managing both legacy and cloud-based infrastructures.

SolarWinds

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

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

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability vs. Splunk Observability Cloud