Splunk Observability Cloud
Cisco-owned Splunk's hosted suite for infrastructure monitoring, APM and real user monitoring.
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About Splunk Observability Cloud
Splunk Observability Cloud is Splunk's SaaS product for metrics, traces and front-end monitoring, separate from its well-known Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud log platforms. It came out of Splunk's acquisitions of SignalFx and Omnition and is built on OpenTelemetry, with streaming analytics that update charts and detectors in seconds. It covers infrastructure monitoring, APM with full-fidelity tracing, real user monitoring, synthetics and on-call, and ties into Splunk's log products for investigations. Since Cisco bought Splunk in 2024 it is sold alongside AppDynamics. It suits organisations that already run Splunk for logs or security and want monitoring from the same vendor; for smaller teams the enterprise sales process and pricing can feel heavy. Pricing is per host per month in tiers, billed annually, with a free trial. It is a hosted web service.
Best for: Enterprises already using Splunk for logs or security that want APM from the same vendor.
Pros and cons
What works
- Streaming analytics with near real-time alerts
- OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
- Ties into Splunk log and security products
Why people leave
- Enterprise-oriented sales and pricing
- Product line overlaps with AppDynamics and can be confusing
- No free tier
Top Splunk Observability Cloud alternatives
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Datadog66.5Similar per-host infrastructure pricing with a wider integration catalogue.
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Dynatrace62.6Enterprise suite with stronger automatic discovery and root-cause analysis.
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New Relic59.6Usage-based pricing and a free tier, easier to trial without sales.
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Grafana57.2Open-source alternative that avoids enterprise contracts.
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Elastic Observability55.3Combines log search and APM, with a self-managed option.
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Splunk Observability Cloud: common questions
Is Splunk Observability Cloud free?
No, Splunk Observability Cloud is a paid product. Infrastructure price: From $15 per host/month (annual) (checked on Splunk Observability Cloud's own site).
Is Splunk Observability Cloud open source?
No, Splunk Observability Cloud is not open source. Open-source alternatives include Grafana.
What platforms does Splunk Observability Cloud run on?
Splunk Observability Cloud is available for Web.
What are the best alternatives to Splunk Observability Cloud?
The highest-ranked Splunk Observability Cloud alternatives right now are Datadog, Dynatrace and New Relic. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.