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SolarWinds Incident Response vs Splunk On-Call comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

SolarWinds Incident Response
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk On-Call
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of SolarWinds Incident Response is 1.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk On-Call is 4.6%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SolarWinds Incident Response1.8%
Splunk On-Call4.6%
Other93.6%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

HemantKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Proactive alert routing has improved uptime and now reduces incident impact across teams
Squadcast requires improvement in that whenever team members upload notes, there is a restriction preventing them from manually resolving alerts. Alerts can only be resolved via proper signals from Alertmanager. Users should not be able to resolve incidents without manual intervention. This is a major requirement because team members sometimes resolve alerts manually, risking the resolution of critical alerts. Additionally, with multiple production environments and services, we receive multiple alerts for issues such as the same disk alert several times. To reduce this noise, we utilize suppression and need deduplication rules. Having a feature to set deduplication rules in one service applicable to other services would be a great help. Other improvements needed for Squadcast include observations I have made over the last four years, and I will convey any updates regarding improvements in the future.
Ramani Happy - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Streamlined incident response has reduced downtime and improved on-call collaboration
A few things I would improve in Splunk On-Call. Honestly, the reporting and analysis side feels a bit weak. If I want to deep dive into the on-call load, including MTTD and MTTR rates, I kind of have to export data and build my own dashboard, which is not as out-of-the-box as I would prefer. The UI has improved, but it still feels a little chunky in certain areas, particularly when managing schedules. When I have a lot of teams, it can get messy. Additionally, the pricing model is per user, which starts to get expensive as the team scales.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Squadcast helped us build a better product by improving both response time and reliability."
"Squadcast notifications have helped me resolve issues faster because they notify me as soon as an issue happens, and then I go and fix it before it gets escalated to further sections."
"Squadcast has positively impacted my organization by helping with incident management and enabling alerts to be responded to more quickly."
"Squadcast has impacted our organization positively by reducing more time and by making sure our solution runs faster."
"When we receive alerts in a timely manner, we can proactively monitor our systems without downtime, maintaining system health with proper alerts, and within the time frame, we can take the necessary action to resolve those alerts, helping to delay major incidents and achieving uptime above 99.9% and 99.2%."
"Squadcast has positively impacted my organization by significantly limiting production incidents compared to before; after using Squadcast, we are much more aware of particular incidents happening with the production server."
"Squadcast has positively impacted our organization because we are confident that we will not miss any alert or system outage, as Squadcast ensures the alert reaches the person even if the SRE person is not available."
"Squadcast has positively impacted our organization by providing timely acknowledgment of alerts, which improves our handling of production issues."
"My VP of Operations is ecstatic about the VictorOps product."
"I would recommend VictorOps for global distributed support teams."
"It reduces the communication around CI/CD and production errors in about 90% of the cases and made our support tasks much easier."
"Its the best solution of its type out there, you should go for it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is helpdesk escalation."
"We are very satisfied with the tool."
"Transmogrifier and automatic solution report gives me a report with the solution and the way to solve issues when an error occurred."
"Splunk On-Call has helped my organization to improve response times, reduce missed alerts, and coordinate teams more efficiently during incidents."
 

Cons

"Squadcast could enhance the UI to be more user-friendly."
"In terms of improvements for Squadcast, there are opportunities, such as having only two workflows for tagging alerts based on priority P1, P2, with our current premium plan."
"A few areas need improvement. For example, AI-generated incident summaries take a lot of time to be completed."
"Squadcast could be improved because when multiple alerts trigger, the team currently performs manual resolution of those alerts."
"Sometimes, while updating the escalation policies tab, Squadcast takes a lot of time, which could be improved."
"Squadcast requires improvement in that whenever team members upload notes, there is a restriction preventing them from manually resolving alerts."
"One feature I think Squadcast must improve is the message quality and call quality we get; currently, the proper message is not being clearly heard on the calls we receive."
"Squadcast user interface is poor, especially when you are on a smaller screen, as it makes the navigation experience very bad."
"The third-party configuration tool could be easier to use."
"We chose to move away from the HP product as far as our monitoring goes and dealing with system-generated alerts, simply because it took too much time and effort to manage the APM platform."
"Many years ago, when VictorOps was a standalone company, when it was not part of Splunk, their support was more dedicated for us."
"There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert."
"Another example is that you cannot check the incidents created in VictorOps from the previous Friday."
"The solution can be improved by including a wider list of permissions."
"The only feature that we are currently waiting on right now is really kind of an annoyance factor: when we get on the timeline on the main dashboard, there’s an ACK All button."
"Should have more YouTube webinars."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
17%
Computer Software Company
14%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Retailer
19%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Squadcast?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very awesome because pricing is affordable. They charge a very affordable pricing compared to features. The setup cost was more attractive.
What needs improvement with Squadcast?
A few areas need improvement. For example, AI-generated incident summaries take a lot of time to be completed.
What is your primary use case for Squadcast?
My main use case for Squadcast is in two different ways. I use it for on-call management, whereby I'm able to schedule calls and do the escalations, as well as live call routing to agents. That is ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VictorOps?
I would say it is very affordable. I have compared Splunk On-Call internally with our own homemade solution. I have also compared it with other vendors such as PagerDuty, and it is really affordable.
What needs improvement with VictorOps?
I would say a little bit of the user experience and the user interface of Splunk On-Call can be improved. I have already started to gather metrics from the tool and started to analyze that. I would...
What is your primary use case for VictorOps?
I am currently working with Splunk Cloud, but I could review Splunk Enterprise as well because it is fundamentally the same product but with hosting being on-premises instead. Splunk Enterprise, Sp...
 

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Sample Customers

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NVIDIA, Cisco, NBC, Rackspace, Intuit, DirectTV, NASCAR, Arrow Electronics, Alliance Health, NetApp, Edmunds, New York Times, Return Path, Sony Playstation, CA Technologies, Sphero, Symantic, HBO, Weatherford, Blackboard, Epic Games
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