We compared Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) and VMware Tanzu Observability across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront excels in ease of deployment and integration, while Splunk ITSI offers a range of valuable features for analysis, monitoring, and security. While reviewers said that Tanzu is an expensive solution that needs better documentation and Kubernetes integration, they noted that Splunk STSI has room to improve in terms of dashboard queries and integration.
"Splunk ITSI helps us secure our environment by allowing us to create automatons that run when alerts are triggered."
"We have a lot of teams using Splunk and they would be blind without it."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"We liked the built-in calculation of health scores."
"The observability is great and valuable."
"The root cause analysis is very helpful for us."
"The feature that stood out to me most from Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) was automated dashboarding or reporting. The solution lists the severity level of issues, and the response times."
"The most valuable aspect lies in its utilization of predictive analytics to anticipate and prevent incidents within a window of twenty to thirty minutes."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."
"No issues with stability."
"The license cost is expensive."
"Quality-of-life features have room for improvement."
"It is pretty okay. I am not sure whether the current release has already moved to the new framework where instead of the glass tables, we can directly use the Dashboard Studio. It would be nice to have that integrated into the same framework."
"We'd like them to show more inputs on the dashboard."
"We have problems doing upgrades and operating alternate new versions."
"It would be advantageous to enhance the dashboard by incorporating sections for monitoring, service health, and a filter for the KPIs."
"We also faced challenges relating to UI development."
"It was an intimidating tool for us to jump into at the beginning."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
"It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality."
"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
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Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is ranked 12th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 27 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked 32nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) writes "Provides a unified view of alerts and supports heat maps and glass tables for visualization and monitoring". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Applications writes "Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights". Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk Enterprise Security and BMC TrueSight Operations Management, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Applications is most compared with Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog, Zabbix and Prometheus. See our Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) vs. VMware Aria Operations for Applications report.
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