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Splunk Observability Cloud vs VictoriaMetrics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 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

Splunk Observability Cloud
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
86
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (7th), Network Monitoring Software (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (6th), Container Management (5th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)
VictoriaMetrics
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
47th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 2.1%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VictoriaMetrics is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud2.1%
VictoriaMetrics0.4%
Other97.5%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Taiwo Ige - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Yess Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
SRE at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
High-performance monitoring has reduced costs and now supports long-term observability
Overall, VictoriaMetrics is a very strong tool. One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources. While the documentation is good, some advanced use cases and configuration could be explained more clearly with real-world examples. Another improvement would be the UI and built-in visualization. VictoriaMetrics mainly relies on tools like Grafana, so having a more feature-rich native UI for basic monitoring and exploration would be helpful. On the integration side, while it works great with Prometheus and Grafana, expanding native integration with more tools like CI/CD platforms, alerting systems, and cloud-native services would be beneficial. In terms of support and troubleshooting, having more built-in diagnostics or guided debugging tools would be helpful. Right now, when issues happen, it often relies on logs and external tools. Also, for enterprise usage, strong features like RBAC, audit logs, and multi-tenant management would be enhanced. The improvements would include UI and built-in visualization. Also, query complexity can be a bit challenging for new users. Simplifying it or providing better guidance for query building would improve usability. Finally, enterprise features and ecosystem integration could be expanded further.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) has one great advantage in that if they have SAP users, they can monitor their SAP applications."
"Great monitoring of network devices."
"The ability to create custom dashboards is one of the best features and that's typically why most people deploy Splunk."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"My experience with this solution in analyzing machine data is really good."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"After moving to Splunk Observability Cloud, it is almost zero downtime."
"The out-of-the-box customizable dashboards provided by Splunk Observability Cloud are effective in showcasing IT performance to business leaders."
"VictoriaMetrics is an excellent solution for time-series monitoring with outstanding performance."
 

Cons

"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring's data analytics can be improved by including suggestions for various types of continuous monitoring."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"The deployment can be quite complex."
"The solution's machine learning deployment is hard and should be made user-friendly."
"It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is based on several factors, including the scale of deployment."
"It appears to be expensive compared to competitors."
"Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive."
"This is an expensive solution."
"Splunk's infrastructure monitoring costs can be high because our billing is based on data volume measured in terabytes, rather than the number of devices being monitored."
"Splunk APM is expensive."
"It is expensive."
"The pricing is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Retailer
6%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Transportation Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise53
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Questions from the Community

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 ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VictoriaMetrics?
The pricing was very good as I am following a subscription-based model. As of now, I have a better dashboard to view my monthly and yearly bills. It is very helpful to reallocate my budget to accom...
What needs improvement with VictoriaMetrics?
Overall, VictoriaMetrics is a very strong tool. One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources. While the documentation is good, some advanced use cases and configuration could be...
What is your primary use case for VictoriaMetrics?
My main use case is storing and querying the time-series metrics for monitoring and observability. I primarily use it as a high-performance back end for Prometheus, where it handles large volumes o...
 

Also Known As

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM), Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
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Sample Customers

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