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Is observability data growing faster than your budget?

Compare Observe vs Splunk. Replace or augment Splunk deployments with Observe to gain better performance while lowering the total cost of ownership.
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Splunk: High total cost of ownership

Designed decades ago, Splunk’s traditional architecture cannot cost-efficiently handle the high volume of fast-moving telemetry data that today’s cloud and cloud-native applications generate.

Single-tenant architecture and lack of auto-scaling mean customers have to plan for peak capacity, leading to inefficient resource utilization and higher costs.

Splunk customers are responsible for managing infrastructure, data lifecycle, and data tiers, leading to an unnecessary burden on valuable engineering resources.

Splunk
Architecture
Cloud-native. Separates compute from storage
Traditional. Monolithic. Tightly coupled compute and storage
Scalability
Elastically scales as needed
Lack of auto-scaling leads to inefficient resource utilization and higher licensing costs
Instrumentation and Collection
OpenTelemetry-Native
Data Retention

13 months by default for all data

Limited:

  • Traces: 8 days
  • Logs: 90 days
  • Metrics: 13 months
Data Tiers
All data is always kept hot
Create, maintain, and migrate between data tiers – hot or archives. Manually rehydrade and reindex data
Unified Observability
All telemetry data in one data lake with one query language and one consistent UI for faster correlations and troubleshooting
Multiple tools for metrics, traces, and logs – SignalFx and Splunk. Multiple languages – SignalFlow and SPL, and completely disjointed UI
Data Encryption
Included by default. All data is encrypted in-transit and at-rest
Available at an additional cost
Log Derived Metrics
No additional charge. Unlimited log derived metrics are included with logs.
Overage Bill
No overages. Period.
Premium Support & Customer Success
Included
Available at an additional cost

Cut your log management costs
70% or more

Observe provides modern log management and observability that optimizes the total cost of ownership. Enter your daily log ingestion volume below to estimate yearly savings when compared to using Splunk Cloud.

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$579,000
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Replace Splunk at your own pace

Let’s face it: log volumes have been rapidly growing, but budgets haven’t kept pace. Are you sampling, filtering, or dropping logs, or creating tiered storage into warm, cold, or frozen states just to contain costs? Augment your Splunk deployments with Observe to reduce cost while keeping your Splunk experience. Read our solution brief to learn more.

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