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Splunk IT Essentials Work vs. IBM Instana

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

MetricSplunk IT Essentials Work

by Cisco

IBM Instana

by IBM

Overall rating4.44.4
Review count13485
Ease of use7.98.8
Ease of setup8.19.0
Quality of support8.28.8
Meets requirements8.68.8
NPS54.54545560.2537
Small Business30.8%21.9%
Mid-Market0.0%41.6%
Enterprise69.2%36.5%
Total page views1022,195
Total LLM citations414,434

Splunk IT Essentials Work

Splunk IT Essentials is the industry’s leading alert triage and investigative solution, helping IT teams easily get started with simplifying IT management. By consolidating tools, reducing cost and correlating all IT data into a single view, Splunk offers a better understanding of performance and health of the entire environment. This is the foundation for any IT team’s modernization journey.

Pros

  • Cloud Services

IBM Instana

IBM Instana, now part of the Concert platform, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by DevOps to optimize application performance, enable innovation and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline. IBM Instana is available on AWS Marketplace.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Monitoring
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Monitoring Capabilities
  • Easy Setup
  • Insights