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SolarWinds Incident Response vs Splunk On-Call comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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
5th
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
9th
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 September 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of SolarWinds Incident Response is 1.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk On-Call is 3.5%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SolarWinds Incident Response1.5%
Splunk On-Call3.5%
Other95.0%
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 has positively impacted the organization with its notification feature that allows receiving a call in case an alert is missed from the UI, enabling timely action, which helps in resolving issues within the minimum time frame and prevents more production issues."
"Squadcast has impacted our organization positively by reducing more time and by making sure our solution runs faster."
"Squadcast has positively impacted my organization by helping with incident management and enabling alerts to be responded to more quickly."
"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 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 helped us build a better product by improving both response time and reliability."
"A significant return on investment has been seen because incidents can be tracked timely and actions can be taken that minimize downtime."
"Squadcast has positively impacted our organization because we are timely getting alerts, and based on those alerts, we can take the required actions, so if there is any burning security alert, we can timely act to avoid production downtime, which results in a return on investment, and there are many transactional costs involved in it, so by reducing the downtime of the system, we are able to save revenue loss from the client side."
"We are very satisfied with the tool."
"It reduces the communication around CI/CD and production errors in about 90% of the cases and made our support tasks much easier."
"The flexible schedule is the most valuable feature. It was very easy to set out a rotation."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is helpdesk escalation."
"The alert calling feature is the best because notifications are delivered via phone messages."
"Splunk On-Call has helped my organization to improve response times, reduce missed alerts, and coordinate teams more efficiently during incidents."
"Its the best solution of its type out there, you should go for it."
"Technical support is an A+ or a 10/10; if I could give an 11/10, I would, and it is what I love about them."
 

Cons

"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 could be improved because when multiple alerts trigger, the team currently performs manual resolution of those alerts."
"Squadcast requires improvement in that whenever team members upload notes, there is a restriction preventing them from manually resolving alerts."
"Sometimes, while updating the escalation policies tab, Squadcast takes a lot of time, which could be improved."
"I remember when we were working on the integration, the documentation was not great, and we found it difficult to understand what the document was saying in some parts."
"Squadcast can be improved if we restrict the manual resolution of alerts, as currently this feature is lacking inside Squadcast."
"Squadcast user interface is poor, especially when you are on a smaller screen, as it makes the navigation experience very bad."
"Squadcast could enhance the UI to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"Should have more YouTube webinars."
"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."
"User management has to be improved and more user types need to be added as there is currently only Admin or User."
"There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert."
"I would say a little bit of the user experience and the user interface of Splunk On-Call can be improved."
"One area for improvement would be enhancing the mobile app experience."
"The solution can be improved by including a wider list of permissions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
21%
Computer Software Company
17%
Construction Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Retailer
14%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

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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