G2 Vendor Directory

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring vs. ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricSplunk Infrastructure Monitoring

by Cisco

ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)

by ServiceNow

Overall rating4.34.6
Review count4920
Ease of use8.09.3
Ease of setup8.39.0
Quality of support8.89.7
Meets requirements8.69.2
NPS51.02040873.684211
Small Business18.4%20.0%
Mid-Market36.7%35.0%
Enterprise44.9%45.0%
Total page views16759
Total LLM citations682238

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

SignalFx is the only real-time cloud monitoring platform for infrastructure, microservices, and applications. The platform discovers and collects metrics across every component in your cloud environment, replacing traditional point tools and providing real-time predictive analytics. The massively scalable SignalFx architecture is optimized for cloud infrastructure and microservices-based applications, It provides powerful visualization, proactive alerting, and collaborative triage capabilities for organizations of all sizes.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Log Management
  • Monitoring
  • Dashboards
  • Monitoring Capabilities

ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)

Lightstep’s observability platform is the easiest way for developers and SREs to monitor health and respond to changes in cloud-native applications. Powered by cutting-edge distributed tracing and a groundbreaking metrics database, and built by the team that launched observability at Google, Lightstep’s Change Intelligence provides actionable insights to help teams answer the question “What caused that change? Lightstep empowers reliability and observability managers to minimize the impact of outages, improve software performance, and build org-wide standards to drive adoption and automation.

Pros