G2 Vendor Directory

Splunk Observability Cloud vs. IBM Instana

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

MetricSplunk Observability Cloud

by Cisco

IBM Instana

by IBM

Overall rating4.34.4
Review count55485
Ease of use8.98.8
Ease of setup8.19.0
Quality of support8.98.8
Meets requirements8.88.8
NPS54.54545560.2537
Small Business30.9%21.9%
Mid-Market30.9%41.6%
Enterprise38.2%36.5%
Total page views1932,195
Total LLM citations2,32814,434

Splunk Observability Cloud

Splunk Observability Cloud is a comprehensive, real-time monitoring and troubleshooting platform designed to provide full-stack visibility across any environment. By integrating application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and digital experience monitoring, it enables organizations to detect and resolve issues swiftly, ensuring optimal system performance and enhanced user experiences. Built on OpenTelemetry standards, Splunk Observability Cloud offers AI-driven insights and analytics, facilitating proactive management of complex, distributed systems.

Pros

  • Log Management
  • Insights
  • Logging Management
  • Features
  • Ease of Use
  • Monitoring

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