We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is a cost-effective and user-friendly option for developers looking to monitor cloud resources and integrate with Visual Studio, according to user reviews. It is preferred over Splunk ITSI due to its lower cost, ease of configuration and maintenance, and strong integration with other Microsoft technologies. Splunk ITSI is praised for its powerful functionality and ease of use, but is considered more expensive and lacks out-of-the-box solutions for enterprise users.
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"ITSI provides a visual representation of complex tools and context, using color coding and other features to make it easy for anyone at the monitoring or service desk to use."
"Our mean time to detect is down to five minutes."
"The most valuable features are the service analyzer and Glass Tables."
"Alerts and episodes are valuable to me."
"The KPS used to automate the integration policy is the most valuable feature of Splunk ITSI."
"One of the excellent features is the service analyzer, which is truly impressive."
"We liked the built-in calculation of health scores."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"Splunk ITSI lacks out-of-the-box solutions for enterprise users."
"The data recovery has room for improvement."
"ITSI could benefit from a security model that would allow operations team members to get involved in model building, KPI implementation, and model maintenance, while maintaining appropriate segregation of duties."
"We're using predictive analytics, and there are three or four algorithms. It would be helpful if this process were more standardized and scalable."
"Splunk ITSI consumes a lot of CPU resources."
"I believe the refresh time should be faster."
"Quality-of-life features have room for improvement."
"We also faced challenges relating to UI development."
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Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) writes "Helps improve our incident response time, and our mean time to resolve, but visibility is limited". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk APM and AppDynamics. See our Azure Monitor vs. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) report.
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