Grafana Enterprise Stack vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

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Grafana Labs and Splunk are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Grafana Labs is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.6, while Splunk is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.2. Grafana Labs holds a 0.7% mindshare in IM, compared to Splunk’s 2.7% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Grafana Labs users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

Grafana Enterprise Stack

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92% willing to recommend

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Splunk Observability Cloud and Grafana Enterprise Stack both compete in the observability and monitoring sector. Splunk has the upper hand due to its comprehensive data integration and robust customer service approach.

Features: Splunk Observability Cloud offers APM monitoring, fast alerting systems, and real-time dashboards that provide insightful data integration, enhancing utility and efficiency. Grafana Enterprise Stack provides user-friendly dashboard creation, intuitive visualizations, and real-time monitoring capabilities which offer extensive insights.

Room for Improvement: Splunk needs to focus on enhancing pricing transparency, streamlining its learning curve, and improving log management. Grafana could benefit from easier configuration processes, enhanced dashboard customization, and improved AI functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Splunk is adaptable to on-premises, cloud, and hybrid setups, with generally responsive customer service. Grafana supports hybrid and on-premises deployments, but improvements in support responsiveness could help it match Splunk's proactive service.

Pricing and ROI: Splunk is perceived as pricey but delivers significant ROI in efficiency and reduced downtime. Grafana's open-source roots provide a cost-effective alternative, offering features that minimize operating costs while delivering value.

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Categories and Ranking

Grafana Enterprise Stack

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

19th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Splunk Observability Cloud

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

105

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (5th), Network Monitoring Software (4th), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd), Container Management (4th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Grafana Enterprise Stack is 0.7%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 2.7%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Splunk Observability Cloud	2.7%
Grafana Enterprise Stack	0.7%
Other	96.6%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Featured Reviews

Rajan M

Test Lead at Calpine Group

Efficient monitoring and alerting enhance operational insights

With Grafana Enterprise Stack, we can identify issues that New Relic cannot help with. While New Relic requires purchase and supports frontend and backend components, Grafana Enterprise Stack helps identify where issues are occurring. When we need to deep dive into issues, we use New Relic to trace transactions and determine where maximum impact occurs, whether in core size, DB side, or frontend components that slow performance. We first evaluate with Grafana Enterprise Stack, then move to New Relic if we identify performance degradation, such as DB queries taking too much time. Grafana Enterprise Stack responds to queries within 6 to 12 hours. They contact users through email immediately when available. Similarly, New Relic follows the same pattern, responding immediately when requests are raised and resolving issues promptly.

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Purnambica Kolavennu

Project Manager at AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA (ASCI)

Unified observability has improved real-time governance and now drives data-led decisions

Log Observer Connect is embedded here, but we are facing some delays in centralized log collection and analysis, which can be further fastened. We are collecting all the data metrics and decision-making insights, but all these data-driven decisions coming from different applications are not connected somewhere. A consolidated form or correlation of these insights is not happening between each other due to which we feel we are missing something significant. Some generalized feedback includes that predictive alerts or alarms which can be integrated with AI-driven alarms and alerting features should be established so that there is AI-driven intelligence and anomaly detection happening with a complete systematic process in service delivery. Application dependencies are huge, and business and operational dashboards should be improved. Right now there are very interactive custom dashboards, and every now and then, the personalization of enhancements keeps happening. KPI monitoring, executive reporting, and analytics have definitely been introduced to a great extent. There are few things in cloud-native monitoring, such as integration with AWS and Azure, where we sometimes do face lags. Those things can definitely be improved upon. I have used Datadog and Dynatrace before using Splunk Observability Cloud. Datadog was definitely recommended by most of our peers because of its very strong comprehensive observability and very strong and unique dashboard systems. Dynatrace was also very good because they have offered a lot of AI-driven analysis methods and processes, which was helping our organization a lot. Since our organization has a very strong IT ecosystem for agriculture, very different kinds of customized things are required.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Compared to other packages, Grafana Enterprise Stack is user-friendly and easy to configure quickly."

"The most valuable features for us are dashboards; we can dashboard anything that we can think of, we can dashboard and measure."

"The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance, from 10 AM to 2 PM, we may experience high memory utilization. It helps us to solve these issues."

"The ability to graph actual, live, or on-the-fly activity is valuable; it is an added value to work with Grafana Enterprise Stack and to display results or logs, which are huge in nature, in graphical characters."

"Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful open-source platform with robust capabilities in data visualizations, dashboard creations, and alerting."

"It is truly reliable."

"Our productivity has improved with its use."

"Grafana's full observability stack, known as LGTM, is highly valuable."

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"Splunk Observability Cloud is effective for detecting anomalies and preventing system outages."

"The features I have found most valuable are log searching and log analytics, both of which are quick features."

"The most valuable thing that we have seen within our group is the ability to ingest all this raw data and have it organized in a certain way so that different groups can get effective alerting from this massive amount of raw data that is out there."

"Initially, before Splunk, we had a long time to resolve issues. Now, with Splunk Observability Cloud, we will be able to solve them quickly and know exactly where the issue is."

"The tool's stability is great."

"It is very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments. It's like a single pane of glass for us. We can use it to monitor our on-prem and both of our cloud environments as opposed to having different tools for each environment. It makes it all come together in one tool."

"Splunk Observability Cloud has helped improve my operational performance; previously, we used Elastic for similar purposes, and this has allowed us much more visibility into what we're working on with usable dashboards and metrics, which has been awesome."

"It can monitor, get the data, and then report on the data."

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Cons

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved. Currently, one needs to ingest labels and timestamps for them to be connected, however, drilling down sometimes takes time."

"In terms of what Grafana provides, it just provides the charting tools. Everything else is third-party."

"The layout is good, but I think it needs some enhancement based on my experience."

"If Grafana Enterprise Stack could display transaction queries in dashboard format similar to New Relic, it would provide more options and capabilities for users."

"Integrating AI capabilities for automated self-healing and reduced manual interventions would be valuable."

"I believe there are some areas for improvement in the product. Something that could be better is the time series functionality."

"Productivity has been improved with the use of Grafana Enterprise Stack, but cost savings or return on investment specifics are not clear."

"I find Grafana really hard to configure. It's difficult to build the dashboard, and it's non-intuitive. In my opinion, it's very difficult to work with Grafana."

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"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 solution's machine learning deployment is hard and should be made user-friendly."

"There is a lot of room for improvement with the automation."

"Support from Splunk is not very helpful because Splunk doesn't have a dedicated APM; they only have one APM engineer in Korea."

"What I don't like is that you are not sure all the data is recorded."

"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."

"Regarding the negative side, I think the licensing can be much better because it is based upon host units and there is additional licensing for the number of traces that I can bring in."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the tool's free license."

"I would rate the price of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring as an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."

"Splunk Observability Cloud is expensive."

"The solution's pricing is costly."

"Splunk has been fairly expensive, but it has been predictable."

"Splunk APM is a very cost-efficient solution."

"The solution's pricing is competitive. I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten. The price of the solution could be cheaper."

"The pricing is based on several factors, including the scale of deployment."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Energy/Utilities Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	37
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	70

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I am trying to think about its advanced alerting features; we do not use it too much for that. We do get it to report through to our help desk system and if a threshold gets broken, then a ticket i...

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What is your primary use case for Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I have switched to a different suite, focusing on customer edge solutions that are mostly Fortinet. To manage it, I use Grafana Enterprise Stack and a whole bunch of tools that we wrote ourselves. ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Grafana Enterprise Stack?

We use Grafana Enterprise Stack in all of our clients. I rate this product an eight out of ten.

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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...

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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 ...

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What advice do you have for others considering SignalFx?

We're a customer and end-user. Currently, in France, we cannot use the artificial intelligence option. While this option is enabled for the United States and many countries, it's not yet available ...

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Also Known As

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

Overview

Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful tool for real-time data monitoring and visualization. With its flexible and scalable features, it is widely used for creating dashboards, analyzing metrics, and gaining insights into infrastructure, databases, and applications.

Its valuable features include powerful visualization capabilities, extensive data source integrations, customizable dashboards, a user-friendly interface, and a robust alerting system. Users appreciate its flexibility, scalability, and ability to integrate with different data sources, making it suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases.

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Splunk Observability Cloud offers sophisticated log searching, data integration, and customizable dashboards. With rapid deployment and ease of use, this cloud service enhances monitoring capabilities across IT infrastructures for comprehensive end-to-end visibility.

Focused on enhancing performance management and security, Splunk Observability Cloud supports environments through its data visualization and analysis tools. Users appreciate its robust application performance monitoring and troubleshooting insights. However, improvements in integrations, interface customization, scalability, and automation are needed. Users find value in its capabilities for infrastructure and network monitoring, as well as log analytics, albeit cost considerations and better documentation are desired. Enhancements in real-time monitoring and network protection are also noted as areas for development.

What are the key features?

Log Searching: Efficiently search and analyze logs from various sources.
Data Integration: Seamlessly integrate with multiple environments.
Dashboard Customization: Tailor dashboards to specific monitoring needs.
Monitoring Capabilities: Provides comprehensive insights into application performance.
Security Features: Analyze and address security threats across systems.
Visualization Tools: Enhance data analysis and system performance optimization.

Why consider this for ROI?

Comprehensive Visibility: Gain complete insights into IT infrastructure.
Performance Optimization: Improve overall system performance and efficiency.
Rapid Deployment: Quick setup to meet organization demands swiftly.
Enhanced Security: Strengthen security measures through detailed analytics.

In industries, Splunk Observability Cloud is implemented for security management by analyzing logs from detection systems, offering real-time alerts and troubleshooting for cloud-native applications. It is leveraged for machine data analysis, improving infrastructure visibility and supporting network and application performance management efforts.

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Sample Customers

1. Uber 2. PayPal 3. eBay 4. Sony 5. Red Hat 6. IBM 7. Cisco 8. Adobe 9. Expedia 10. Booking.com 11. Airbnb 12. LinkedIn 13. Twitter 14. Netflix 15. Spotify 16. Pinterest 17. Slack 18. GitLab 19. Docker 20. Atlassian 21. Salesforce 22. Microsoft 23. Google 24. Amazon 25. Facebook 26. Apple 27. Intel 28. Oracle 29. SAP 30. VMware 31. HP 32. Dell

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