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Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) vs Splunk On-Call comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

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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

Splunk ITSI (IT Service Int...
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (9th)
Splunk On-Call
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is 1.8%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk On-Call is 3.3%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)1.8%
Splunk On-Call3.3%
Other94.9%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

DS
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Service health has been monitored and visual insights support proactive telecom operations
The installation process is the first aspect I dislike about Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence). If you do not configure it correctly, you will encounter issues in the search head. Because we use a distributed environment where each component has its own specific roles, installation is critical and requires careful attention. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is built with many applications. It is a compressed file, and when you extract the Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) app, you receive approximately 19 apps. Some applications, add-ons, and packages must be installed on specific components. If you do not configure an application correctly, it will not work. Sometimes we encounter issues during installation because of this complexity. I believe the installation process should be more uniform, meaning it could be deployed across all components to avoid post-installation issues. Sometimes after installation, you receive errors, and users cannot access Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence). We have experienced this type of issue due to installation errors. I believe there is currently room for improvement regarding scalability. When we create Glass Tables containing many searches, the Glass Tables sometimes fail due to memory constraints, and we receive error pages. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) should have a lightweight version to address these concerns. I would rate current scalability as medium.
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

"Regarding ROI percentage, we estimate a 30 to 35 percent saving on resource costs and around 25 to 30 percent savings on inventory expenses, all credited to utilizing Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) effectively."
"One of the excellent features is the service analyzer, which is truly impressive."
"Splunk is not only a great product but also, as a company it really supports its users with the customer support program and all of the documentation they have available, all of the conventions that are arranged, meet the experts, case studies, use cases, and the YouTube channel."
"The solution has been stable."
"We have a lot of teams using Splunk and they would be blind without it."
"The health scores and glass tables are extremely valuable and useful."
"We liked the built-in calculation of health scores."
"The root cause analysis is very helpful for us."
"It reduces the communication around CI/CD and production errors in about 90% of the cases and made our support tasks much easier."
"Transmogrifier and automatic solution report gives me a report with the solution and the way to solve issues when an error occurred."
"Its the best solution of its type out there, you should go for it."
"Splunk On-Call has helped my organization to improve response times, reduce missed alerts, and coordinate teams more efficiently during incidents."
"The flexible schedule is the most valuable feature. It was very easy to set out a rotation."
"VictorOps has been good enough for us and it's effective for our needs in case of an on-call escalation process."
"Since implementing Splunk On-Call, our mean time to acknowledge has dropped significantly, and we have fewer escalations to senior engineering for things that could have been caught earlier."
"VictorOps has decreased the meantime to acknowledge an incident management process, our developers can be on-call faster when we are using this solution, and we can fix our incidents much quicker."
 

Cons

"It is pretty okay. I am not sure whether the current release has already moved to the new framework where instead of the glass tables, we can directly use the Dashboard Studio. It would be nice to have that integrated into the same framework."
"It could be a little easier to use with the thresholding. We've struggled a little bit with thresholding."
"They should make it easier to use. Many people are new to it. It is hard and has a steep learning curve."
"Splunk ITSI should include ease of integration and more templating."
"After upgrading Splunk ITSI from version 4.11 to 4.13, the analyzer stopped finding values for KPS and services."
"Occasionally, we have faced some slowness, which we reported to Splunk, and those issues were promptly resolved."
"Quality-of-life features have room for improvement."
"One area where Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) has room for improvement is the high cost associated with it."
"A few things I would improve in Splunk On-Call. Honestly, the reporting and analysis side feels a bit weak."
"Many years ago, when VictorOps was a standalone company, when it was not part of Splunk, their support was more dedicated for us."
"One area for improvement would be enhancing the mobile app experience."
"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."
"The third-party configuration tool could be easier to use."
"At that stage, all our needs are fulfilled, but at the beginning, we had some feature requests and they were deployed during their roadmap."
"Should have more YouTube webinars."
"There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Splunk ITSI is a premium application and comes with a premium price tag."
"The licensing is based on data usage."
"I know that it is expensive, but I do not think there is another solution that can do similar things for that price."
"It is interesting. I am not involved that much lately, but if I recall correctly, you license primarily on the volume of data that you are using in Splunk ITSI, but there is no way Splunk can ever check if that is true, so that is interesting. We are not doing it, but someone can pretend to just use 10%, and it would be super cheap. It is tricky, but it is more tricky for Splunk than for us."
"Splunk ITSI is expensive compared to other tools."
"Pricing has some room for improvement."
"Splunk ITSI is expensive."
"Splunk ITSI is expensive."
"The price of the solution could be less expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Performing Arts
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise45
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)?
From a pricing perspective, it is not that bad because we get it from a distributor and do not purchase it directly from Splunk. We get it from a distributor who gives the pricing to a partner and ...
What needs improvement with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)?
In terms of improvements for Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), I would suggest adding more out-of-the-box plugins and adapters, especially as there is a high demand for observability and dashb...
What is your primary use case for Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)?
I use Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) as a manager of the managers, a tool sitting on top of all the other observability tools. It gets the alerts feed from all the sources such as Splunk Ent...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VictorOps?
The pricing aspect is per-user licensing, which is standard for this category, making it competitive compared to PagerDuty. In the past, we used PagerDuty, but it is not cheap once you start adding...
What needs improvement with VictorOps?
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 ha...
What is your primary use case for VictorOps?
I have been using Splunk On-Call for nearly about two years. Our main use is incident alerting and on-call scheduling for our engineering and DevOps team. Basically, whenever something goes down, a...
 

Also Known As

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VictorOps
 

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Sample Customers

TransUnion, Cox Automotive, Carnival Cruises, Leidos, Econocom, National Ignition Factory, Entrust Datacard, Molina Healthcare, United States Census Bureau
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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