Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

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Observability & Monitoring
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Real-time observability for cloud-native technologies and full-stack monitoring

How to Replace Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Overview

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides real-time observability across cloud-native environments including microservices, serverless functions, and container orchestration. It enables IT and developers to monitor and observe data in real-time across their entire data landscape. The platform offers full-stack visibility correlating cloud infrastructure with application performance.

Features

43 features across 23 categories

APM(1)

APM (Application Performance Monitoring)

Splunk APM for monitoring application performance and detecting issues

Also in: Datadog

Access Control(3)

Capacity-Limited Tokens

Control costs and permissions by enabling self-service development and ops teams with capacity limitations

Granular Access Controls

Enable access to dashboard detectors by certain users and/or teams for enterprise consumption management

Team-Level Usage Management

Allocate tokens to internal teams to manage usage at individual team level across organization

Also in: Kubernetes Dashboard, Lacework, LastPass

Alerting(3)

Adaptive Alert ConditionsAI

Dynamic thresholds and automatic baselining with data science instead of static thresholds to reduce alert storms

Intelligent Problem DetectionAI

Built-in data science for instant and accurate alerts on dynamic thresholds, multiple conditions and complex rules with predictive analysis

Usage Alerts

Proactive alerts as you approach purchased capacity to manage costs and right-size deployments

Also in: Splunk, Lacework, Dashlane

Analytics(3)

Metric Time Series (MTS) Usage Analysis

Detailed usage reports and analysis to monitor usage, avoid overages, and identify optimization opportunities across teams

Real-Time Streaming Analytics

Applies analytics on metrics in-flight using streaming pub/sub bus for instant ingest, analyze and alert capabilities

Sophisticated Analytics Functions

Over 20 sophisticated analytics functions to analyze patterns and trends beyond raw metric data and basic functions

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Smartsheet

Collaboration(1)

Mirrored Dashboards

Effortlessly share charts or dashboards across teams while maintaining granular access controls with automatic propagation of changes

Also in: Notion, Airtable, Obsidian

Compliance(2)

HIPAA Compliance

Complete Splunk Observability portfolio including Splunk IM is HIPAA compliant for safeguarding medical information

SOC2 Compliance

Annual SOC2 compliance certification focusing on security, availability and confidentiality

Also in: Insider CDP, Airtable, 1Password

Data Collection(1)

OpenTelemetry Collector

Open, flexible data collection using OpenTelemetry standard with receivers, processors, exporters and extensions for open-source instrumentation

Also in: Insider CDP, Lytics, monday.com

Data Management(2)

High-Cardinality Metastore

Independent data store optimized for human-readable metadata treating all dimensions and tags the same for efficient searching

Metrics Pipeline Management

Control metrics volume at the point of ingest with aggregation and data-dropping rules to reduce metrics volume and optimize spend

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

DevOps(1)

CI/CD Integration

Integrations with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Ansible, ZooKeeper) enabling DevOps teams to perform frequent code pushes

Developer Tools(3)

Programmable APIs

Self-service APIs enabling monitoring-as-code approach with automatic dashboard building and sophisticated ad-hoc queries

SignalFlow Analytics Language

Analytics language for creating charts and alerts at scale via programmable APIs with monitoring-as-code approach

Terraform Provider

Infrastructure-as-code support for programmatic management of monitoring resources

Integration(3)

300+ Out-of-the-Box Integrations

Ready-to-use integrations with popular OSS, cloud infrastructure and services that automatically pull standard metrics and feed pre-built dashboards

Cloud-Agnostic Integrations

Integrations with all popular cloud providers and services (AWS, Azure, GCP) for fast time to value without managing agents

Deep Data Linking with Splunk Platform

Carry context of charts into Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud for deeper insights with Content Pack for Infrastructure Monitoring

Kubernetes Monitoring(2)

Dynamic Cluster Maps

Automatically discover and visualize Kubernetes objects, their health and performance with dynamic cluster maps and pre-built dashboards

Kubernetes Navigator

Enterprise-grade turnkey monitoring solution for Kubernetes environments with intuitive understanding and management of cluster performance

Logging(2)

Log Observer

Splunk Log Observer for monitoring logs alongside metrics in observability platform

Log Observer Connect

Centralize observability log data alongside metrics to eliminate context switching and shorten root cause analysis

Metrics(2)

Composite Metrics for Business KPIs

Measure relevant KPIs and derive insights such as customer churn rate, success ratios and products sold per second

Custom Metrics

Instrument custom metrics beyond basic infrastructure health metrics for business impact assessment and diagnosis

Monitoring(1)

Full-Stack Observability

Seamless correlation between cloud infrastructure and services running on top to see complete picture of infrastructure and application performance

Network Monitoring(1)

Network Explorer

Uses eBPF technology to collect fine-grained network telemetry and correlate with application metadata for real-time service dependency visibility

Pricing(3)

Host-Based Subscription Plans

Commercial and Enterprise edition subscription plans with container allocation (10 per host for Commercial, 20 for Enterprise)

Usage-Based Pricing Option

Usage-based pricing model ideal for serverless environments and cloud services without underlying host visibility

Volume Discounts

Volume discounts available for each pricing plan to reduce costs at scale

Reporting(1)

Daily Usage Reports

Transparent and daily detailed reports on all monitored hosts, containers and metrics

Serverless Monitoring(1)

Serverless Function Monitoring

Monitors popular FaaS services (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions) with function wrappers for metrics on invocations, errors, durations

Support(2)

Customer Success SupportPremium

Variety of support and professional services options addressing business needs and helping harness Splunk value

Technical Support

Splunk product purchases include support with all major and minor software updates and technical support

Training(1)

Splunk TrainingPremium

Coursework on specific Splunk topics and learning paths for infrastructure monitoring, reports and visualizations

User Experience(2)

RUM (Real User Monitoring)

Splunk RUM for monitoring end-user experience with session tracking and user interaction analysis

RUM Session Tracking

Track user sessions defined as group of user interactions on application with maximum 4 hour duration

Visualization(2)

Custom Dashboard Creation and Sharing

Clone and edit from out-of-the-box dashboards to highlight what matters most and share across teams

Pre-Built High-Resolution Dashboards

Automatically pull standard metrics and feed into pre-built, curated dashboards for rapid visualization with real-time updates

Pricing

Commercial Edition

Contact for pricing
  • 10 containers per host
  • Host-based subscription
  • Infrastructure monitoring
  • Technical support

Enterprise Edition

Popular
Contact for pricing
  • 20 containers per host
  • Host-based subscription
  • Full-stack observability
  • High-cardinality metastore
  • Programmable APIs
  • Technical support

Usage-Based Pricing

Custom
  • Ideal for serverless environments
  • Cloud services monitoring
  • Granular cost control
  • Pay for what you use

Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)

Custom
  • Workload pricing (SVC units)
  • Ingest pricing (up to 200GB)
  • Cloud and on-prem options
  • Term licenses

Cost Calculator

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Build vs Buy

Should you build a Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 43 features.

Buy Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Better Value
Monthly costContact Sales
3-year totalVaries
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$24,000
Maintenance$360/mo
3-year total$36,960
Dev time~2 months

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

AnsibleAWSAWS LambdaAzureAzure FunctionsDockerGoogle Cloud FunctionsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)JenkinsKubernetesOpenTelemetrySplunk CloudSplunk EnterpriseSplunk On-CallTerraformZooKeeper