Splunk Observability Cloud vs. SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

Splunk Observability Cloud

Splunk Observability Cloud

87 Reviews and Ratings

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

15 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	VividCortex, acquired by SolarWinds in December 2019, provides database performance monitoring designed to increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings. The GDPR- and SOC 2-compliant platform offers visibility into major open-source databases—MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis—for the engineering team at scale. Industry leaders like Etsy, GitHub, SendGrid, and Yelp rely on Database Performance Monitor for all-query monitoring and drill…	N/A

Pricing

Splunk Observability Cloud

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

Editions & Modules

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

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Splunk Observability Cloud	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Splunk Observability Cloud	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Considered Both Products	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?	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Chose SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor DPM is less expensive and more feature-rich. Also, Oracle tech support is garbage, unless you can afford to spend a day getting assistance. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Splunk Observability Cloud	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Splunk Observability Cloud	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend	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	Computing resources consumed by the DB instance, DPA queries & wait time, deadlock conditions, virtual infrastructure resources. The addition of NPM & DPA integration as well as cross-correlation in the identification of issues with the network or server or DB is all stupid-proof. Monitoring is more than just health and resource consumption, it's also performance. DB performance analysis is key to maintaining healthy DB instances. Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
Pros	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	Simple to use and very easy to learn. The execution engines run in parallel, can execute any syntax or query. DPN can run all queries for both Oracle and SQL with no additional support. Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
Cons	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	The Reporting feature currently doesn't allow customization. Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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	No answers on this topic
Usability	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	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Splunk support is very quick and efficient. Pre-sale specialists are very skilled and available. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Follow a training before starting. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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	DPM is less expensive and more feature-rich. Also, Oracle tech support is garbage, unless you can afford to spend a day getting assistance. Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	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	What is the cost of a downed DB instance? That's your ROI. DPM lets you see issues before they become critical. Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
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