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AppInsights vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

AppInsights
Ranking in Data Visualization
41st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Cloud Platform
Ranking in Data Visualization
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
114
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of AppInsights is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Cloud Platform is 1.1%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Cloud Platform1.1%
AppInsights0.5%
Other98.4%
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Featured Reviews

Karen Trinidad - PeerSpot reviewer
Jr data engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Cost-efficient, good analytics, and stable
Since our application is hosted in the cloud, there is no need for installation. I can simply access the portal and navigate to App Insights for easy access. I give the initial setup a ten out of ten. The deployment took approximately 24 hours to complete due to the large amount of data that had to be transferred. We had about fifteen people involved in the configuration, with two main people taking the lead and the rest on standby in case something happened.
reviewer2805510 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Unified log analytics has transformed security monitoring and cuts breach detection to minutes
Splunk Cloud Platform has areas for improvement, including the fact that it is obviously an enterprise tool and can be expensive, which is the biggest complaint I have noted. Costs can rise due to high data ingestion and long retention periods, along with a complex licensing structure that makes pricing difficult to predict as usage grows, especially since more systems send logs. There are also performance concerns at scale where users have reported slower searches and expensive long-term storage needs, particularly in multi-terabyte environments. Additionally, operational complexity exists as enterprises still need to do data onboarding, create dashboards, handle retention policies, access control, and performance tuning. These are the three key areas of improvement I have identified.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is analytics."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's search capabilities are quite effective in uncovering operational insights."
"Improved security has been achieved because a lot of security logs are ingested to Splunk Cloud Platform, where they are being used to identify security vulnerabilities and checkpoints."
"Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable."
"It's made searching for data easier. Users like it. We're still in the migration process, but overall, it's a lot easier to use."
"The ability to correlate data and then present it in a meaningful and valuable way is crucial."
"Splunk helped reduce our mean time to resolve by around 60%."
"Splunk Cloud Platform has positively impacted my organization by enhancing the observability of the environment, allowing us to detect threats faster."
"We use Splunk Cloud primarily as a troubleshooting tool, so the most valuable features are the analysis and visualization."
 

Cons

"The UI of the solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"The return on investment with Splunk Cloud Platform has been poor. There is a significant possibility we will be replacing it in the next quarter or two."
"There is something that they say will be improved, and I am still waiting for it."
"Regarding pricing for Splunk Cloud Platform, it is not cheap. It's cost-efficient if you are using it properly."
"For betterment, there is definitely a cost concern."
"Although there is documentation available, it is really hard for me to find relevant topics on what it is that I'm searching for."
"However, I think its accuracy and reliability of output are not very good right now."
"We face occasional downtime issues where when we try to scale up, we face a considerable amount of challenges."
"It is sometimes slow. Some of that has to do with the queries themselves not being efficient, but sometimes it is slow."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is cost-efficient and I give it an eight out of ten."
"I do not have much idea. We previously used 1 GB at the cost of $600. Both on-prem and cloud licenses have the same price. There is no difference. It did not impact the cost because the costs of the on-prem license and the cloud license are the same. We did not have any issues with that. Overall, its price is reasonable."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's pricing is a little on the higher end."
"The licensing costs depend on the state of your environment and the fees are paid on a monthly basis."
"Splunk Cloud Platform is more expensive than some of its competitors, but it offers a wider range of features."
"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
"It was a good model."
"We were involved in the renewal process, and our organization does reviews of all our partnerships that we have every two to three years to ensure they are meeting our needs, there isn't a better solution out there, and we won't save money by going somewhere else."
"The price is something that people complain about."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business38
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise82
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been very good, as we did not face any issues. We're receiving all the needed support from the start.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
More guardrails can be implemented, and workload management can be improved in Splunk Cloud Platform. Ad hoc searches are still being executed with index equal to star, which reveals opportunities ...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform serves as our primary observability solution, focusing on monitoring logs, metrics, and traces for our systems. We primarily use Splunk Cloud Platform for log monitoring by se...
 

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