Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
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Features
43 features across 23 categories
APM(1)
Splunk APM for monitoring application performance and detecting issues
Access Control(3)
Control costs and permissions by enabling self-service development and ops teams with capacity limitations
Enable access to dashboard detectors by certain users and/or teams for enterprise consumption management
Allocate tokens to internal teams to manage usage at individual team level across organization
Alerting(3)
Dynamic thresholds and automatic baselining with data science instead of static thresholds to reduce alert storms
Built-in data science for instant and accurate alerts on dynamic thresholds, multiple conditions and complex rules with predictive analysis
Proactive alerts as you approach purchased capacity to manage costs and right-size deployments
Analytics(3)
Detailed usage reports and analysis to monitor usage, avoid overages, and identify optimization opportunities across teams
Applies analytics on metrics in-flight using streaming pub/sub bus for instant ingest, analyze and alert capabilities
Over 20 sophisticated analytics functions to analyze patterns and trends beyond raw metric data and basic functions
Collaboration(1)
Effortlessly share charts or dashboards across teams while maintaining granular access controls with automatic propagation of changes
Compliance(2)
Complete Splunk Observability portfolio including Splunk IM is HIPAA compliant for safeguarding medical information
Annual SOC2 compliance certification focusing on security, availability and confidentiality
Data Collection(1)
Open, flexible data collection using OpenTelemetry standard with receivers, processors, exporters and extensions for open-source instrumentation
Data Management(2)
Independent data store optimized for human-readable metadata treating all dimensions and tags the same for efficient searching
Control metrics volume at the point of ingest with aggregation and data-dropping rules to reduce metrics volume and optimize spend
DevOps(1)
Integrations with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Ansible, ZooKeeper) enabling DevOps teams to perform frequent code pushes
Developer Tools(3)
Self-service APIs enabling monitoring-as-code approach with automatic dashboard building and sophisticated ad-hoc queries
Analytics language for creating charts and alerts at scale via programmable APIs with monitoring-as-code approach
Infrastructure-as-code support for programmatic management of monitoring resources
Integration(3)
Ready-to-use integrations with popular OSS, cloud infrastructure and services that automatically pull standard metrics and feed pre-built dashboards
Integrations with all popular cloud providers and services (AWS, Azure, GCP) for fast time to value without managing agents
Carry context of charts into Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud for deeper insights with Content Pack for Infrastructure Monitoring
Kubernetes Monitoring(2)
Automatically discover and visualize Kubernetes objects, their health and performance with dynamic cluster maps and pre-built dashboards
Enterprise-grade turnkey monitoring solution for Kubernetes environments with intuitive understanding and management of cluster performance
Logging(2)
Splunk Log Observer for monitoring logs alongside metrics in observability platform
Centralize observability log data alongside metrics to eliminate context switching and shorten root cause analysis
Metrics(2)
Measure relevant KPIs and derive insights such as customer churn rate, success ratios and products sold per second
Instrument custom metrics beyond basic infrastructure health metrics for business impact assessment and diagnosis
Monitoring(1)
Seamless correlation between cloud infrastructure and services running on top to see complete picture of infrastructure and application performance
Network Monitoring(1)
Uses eBPF technology to collect fine-grained network telemetry and correlate with application metadata for real-time service dependency visibility
Pricing(3)
Commercial and Enterprise edition subscription plans with container allocation (10 per host for Commercial, 20 for Enterprise)
Usage-based pricing model ideal for serverless environments and cloud services without underlying host visibility
Volume discounts available for each pricing plan to reduce costs at scale
Reporting(1)
Transparent and daily detailed reports on all monitored hosts, containers and metrics
Serverless Monitoring(1)
Monitors popular FaaS services (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions) with function wrappers for metrics on invocations, errors, durations
Support(2)
Variety of support and professional services options addressing business needs and helping harness Splunk value
Splunk product purchases include support with all major and minor software updates and technical support
Training(1)
Coursework on specific Splunk topics and learning paths for infrastructure monitoring, reports and visualizations
User Experience(2)
Splunk RUM for monitoring end-user experience with session tracking and user interaction analysis
Track user sessions defined as group of user interactions on application with maximum 4 hour duration
Visualization(2)
Clone and edit from out-of-the-box dashboards to highlight what matters most and share across teams
Automatically pull standard metrics and feed into pre-built, curated dashboards for rapid visualization with real-time updates
Pricing
Commercial Edition
- ✓10 containers per host
- ✓Host-based subscription
- ✓Infrastructure monitoring
- ✓Technical support
Enterprise Edition
Popular- ✓20 containers per host
- ✓Host-based subscription
- ✓Full-stack observability
- ✓High-cardinality metastore
- ✓Programmable APIs
- ✓Technical support
Usage-Based Pricing
- ✓Ideal for serverless environments
- ✓Cloud services monitoring
- ✓Granular cost control
- ✓Pay for what you use
Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
- ✓Workload pricing (SVC units)
- ✓Ingest pricing (up to 200GB)
- ✓Cloud and on-prem options
- ✓Term licenses
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Build vs Buy
Should you build a Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 43 features.
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Better ValueBuild Your Own
Buying Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring saves ~$36,960 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 43 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
16 known integrations