Splunk Real User Monitoring vs. NETSCOUT Network & Application Observability

Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) helps you understand, measure, and improve your end user experience. Splunk RUM stitches together complete user sessions in an end to end view with backend performance, helping you understand how your entire environment impacts your customer experience, from backend services to web browsers and native mobile applications (iOS and Android).

NETSCOUT’s Network & Application Observability solution is engineered for IT practitioners who need deep, real-time visibility into complex hybrid environments. Whether you're managing a sprawling data center, a multi-cloud deployment, 5G deployment, or a remote workforce, this solution delivers the actionable intelligence required to maintain performance, availability, and user experience across every layer of your infrastructure. At its core, NETSCOUT leverages Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to convert raw network traffic into smart data.