FortiMonitor vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

Splunk Observability Cloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
FortiMonitor	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	FortiMonitor is a comprehensive, SaaS-based digital experience monitoring (DEM) platform that helps organizations modernize their performance-monitoring tools. It provides visibility into endpoint application performance and digital experience—no matter where the user resides or where the application is hosted. It is based on Panopta, which was acquired by Fortinet in late 2020.	N/A
Splunk Observability Cloud	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Splunk Observability Cloud aims to enable operational agility and better customer experience through real-time AI-driven streaming analytics allowing accurate alerts in seconds. It is designed to shorten MTTD and MTTR by providing real-time visibility into cloud infrastructure and services.	$15 per month (billed annually) per host

Pricing

FortiMonitor

Splunk Observability Cloud

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Infrastructure: $15
per month (billed annually) per host
App & Infra: $60
per month (billed annually) per host
End-to-End: $75
per month (billed annually) per host

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
FortiMonitor	Splunk Observability Cloud
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Our simple, usage-based pricing model is ideal whether you have five servers, or 500 hundred. You’ll be charged monthly per the number of instances monitored, and any additional features you’re using, such as CounterMeasures and synthetic checks. Standard Instances - $6/Instance Network Devices - $9/Device Containers - $2/Container

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Community Pulse
	FortiMonitor	Splunk Observability Cloud
Considered Both Products	FortiMonitor Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Chose FortiMonitor Panopta management from the cloud (remote panel). Easy work on installation. To monitor servers, it is enough for the server to have contact only with the Internet. Incentivized Helpful?	Splunk Observability Cloud Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Datadog Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud To be honest, Datadog is very similar to Splunk and LogScale to a lesser degree, but it is just as good if you don't need too complex observability. Grafana is still growing and might reach the same level soon. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Tenable Cloud Security and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server Incentivized Helpful? Ruben Martinez Information Systems Security Officer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud It's able to quickly detect and resolve issues across the entire spectrum of deployments including on-premises, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and multicloud Incentivized Helpful? AO Anjali Oza Sr. Software Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud The above applications have their own use cases. Thousand Eyes or Sitescope is used for URL monitoring and Splunk is used for application monitoring. Appdynamics is also used for application monitoring and can monitor the server very well but it lacks when searching in logs … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud It has edge because of our existing logging solutions is Splunk Incentivized Helpful? Brennan Fuller Systems Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk is superior in many ways to these solutions when I'm comes to ingesting, storing, manipulating, and using data, but dynatraces automatic agents do make it much easier to use out of the box. Nagios seems much cheaper but does not provide as much functionality as Splunk. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Because it's very easy to use & detailed and I love the graphics you feel everything under control any issue you can track it immediately Incentivized Helpful? AD Alberto Dominguez Technical PM Chose Splunk Observability Cloud New Relic has more deep into the application using agents. We try to use them in parallel to find errors in the infrastructure. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud I had not considered other products because Splunk Log Observer was in use in my company before I started working there. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud We believe that it's less vulnerable to security aspects as compared to others. Incentivized Helpful? Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk requires less work for data in gestion and parsing. Splunk has more efficient data display features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Sumologic. Incentivized Helpful? Mayank Thirani Senior Software Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Log Observer provides easy setup and ease of admin features and direction of product was better compared to Lightstep Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk is easy to customize and ingest our data. It is far more understandable and secure than other applications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud NA Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud SQL is a great tool for smaller quick checks. When trying to monitor several different environments, applications, APIs, several thousand devices, connections, and technology, it just doesn't stand up to what you need. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has really stood out … Incentivized Helpful? Anuj Rai Performance Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud We are having other monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog and already using their end-user monitoring capability. Most of our customers are looking for agent-free monitoring where they don't want to instrument any agent on their client-side (as it might … Incentivized Helpful? David Williams CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides far superior options for anybody using a complex hybrid multi-cloud environment and allows both your SOC and NOC to work together on the same data while driving their own insights. We found other products are still in the old world view … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud The tool was deployed over most of the major applications on the client-side. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud The use of a single integration and definition of custom metrics, and tags is a great advantage. The ability to use SignalFlow to observe metrics in addition to the vast number of out-of-the-box dashboards is also excellent. Incentivized Helpful? Kendal Droddy Senior System Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is the only product of its kind that I've used and I've been very happy with it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud government is hesitant of choosing a solarwinds product for security purposes Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Much more powerful Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) has a much better artificial intelligence engine. It also has a much better and more intuitive user interface. Splunk RUM also allows end-to-end visibility into the front and the backend. Technical support and customer service are also much … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	FortiMonitor	Splunk Observability Cloud
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User Ratings
	FortiMonitor	Splunk Observability Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	FortiMonitor	Splunk Observability Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	It is great for monitoring internet connections. The agent installed on Windows works efficiently and takes up little resources. The method of settling costs is not very clear. There should also be a table with the current list of costs visible. Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	The query language is relatively easy and flexible when looking into an application's problems. These queries can then be used for alerts, reports, and dashboards. I believe Splunk is a platform that can help a system grow into its proactive application management, using incidents to add insights as needed without trying to work out every scenario in advance. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Monitoring from several locations Fast notification Push notifications, SMS and calling Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	The first one is its Kubernetes container monitoring. I really like this features because as we know how much K8s is vast and to manually monitor each part of the Kubernetes it takes so much time but Splunk Observability Cloud makes it easier. And even once we integrate K8s with Splunk Observability Cloud it gives us some prebuilt dashboards which gives holistic view of our Cluster and its nodes, pods, etc. The dashbaord feature of Splunk Observability Cloud, it gives us full flexibility to customize our dashboard with a wide range of predefined chart types. Now it also supports OTEL, which is a plus point for observability. As now everyone is moving towards Otel and in current market there are only few tools who supports OTEL based integrations, Splunk Observability Cloud is one out of them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Simplifying the interface Simplification of the process, e.g. notifications to Slack Dark mode for panel and dashboard Push notification - should contain more detailed information A nicer looking dashboard Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	An indicator for errors on the navigations pane so that we don't have to go through each tab. As we go more and more cloud maybe you guys can implement a pay-as-you-use strategy so that small companies using it not frequently can also afford it. That's it can't think of any and it wont let me skip to next question. Thanks Incentivized CM chirag mhatre Software Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Good: Stable system with low error rate Easy to use for simple use cases Bad: UI is not very clear for complex usage Mobile view (when logged in from phone) is bad No library for .net Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	When there is an issue, it’s a win if one can easily identify the root cause. To do the same, it should allow the user to dig deep with multiple data points and compare the data and identify the anomaly. In this use case, it’s good to drive from Splunk 011y. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Splunk support is very quick and efficient. Pre-sale specialists are very skilled and available. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Follow a training before starting. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Panopta management from the cloud (remote panel). Easy work on installation. To monitor servers, it is enough for the server to have contact only with the Internet. Multiple channels for sending notifications. Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	We initially chose Splunk Observability Cloud because it promised full-stack visibility and tighter integration. The other tools didn't offer this as part of the core package. Their analytics and real-time dashboards looked strong during the demo but it turned out to a lot heavier and more complex than expected. If I had to decide again, I’d probably go with something more streamlined and easier to manage. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Provides high availability of services Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Significantly reduced the MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery), which in turn has improved the end-user experience tremendously. Meets compliance requirements of security policies, audit, regulation, and forensics. Helps us to track/manage the resource usage on our cloud instances which has a direct implication on the recurring cost. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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