Compare Elastic Observability and Splunk Enterprise 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (44.6% of reviews)
Enterprise (64.1% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
No pricing available
Elastic Observability
Star Rating
(87)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (44.6% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansSplunk Enterprise
Star Rating
(427)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (64.1% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about Splunk EnterpriseElastic Observability vs Splunk Enterprise
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Splunk Enterprise easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Splunk Enterprise overall.
- Reviewers felt that Splunk Enterprise meets the needs of their business better than Elastic Observability.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Splunk Enterprise is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Elastic Observability over Splunk Enterprise.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Elastic Observability
Elastic Cloud Serverless
Pay As You Go
Per Month
A fully automated, usage-based platform. Ideal for variable workloads where compute scales independently from storage, requiring zero capacity planning or infrastructure management.
- No-ops management: Elastic handles all upgrades and scaling
- Decoupled compute and storage scaling
- Specialized VCUs for Ingest, Search, and Machine Learning
Splunk Enterprise
No pricing availableFree Trial
Elastic Observability
Free Trial is available
Splunk Enterprise
No trial information availableRatings
Meets Requirements
8.7
65
8.9
337
Ease of Use
7.3
67
8.1
342
Ease of Setup
6.9
24
8.0
144
Ease of Admin
6.7
20
8.1
126
Quality of Support
7.6
57
8.4
280
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
7.7
16
8.7
126
Product Direction (% positive)
7.9
66
7.8
329
Features by Category
Reports
Not enough data
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Data Preparation
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Data Modeling and Blending
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Generative AI
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Agentic AI - Analytics Platforms
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Self Service
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Deployment & Integration - Analytics Platforms
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Advanced Analytics
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Performance & Scalability - Analytics Platforms
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Advanced Analytics & Modeling - Analytics Platforms
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Agentic AI Capabilities - Analytics Platforms
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Personalized Intelligence - Analytics Platforms
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Building Reports
Not enough data
9.7
5
Not enough data
9.7
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Content Management
Not enough data
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Content Discovery
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Generative AI
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Functionality
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Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
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Data Sourcing
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Intelligence
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Monitoring
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Administration
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Analysis
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Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
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AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
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Functionality
Not enough data
7.0
9
Not enough data
6.5
9
Not enough data
7.9
12
Issue Resolution
Not enough data
7.1
11
Not enough data
6.8
10
Not enough data
6.8
10
Management
Not enough data
7.7
10
Not enough data
8.2
12
Not enough data
7.9
12
Generative AI
Not enough data
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Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
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Visibility
Not enough data
9.3
19
Not enough data
8.9
20
Not enough data
9.2
20
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.9
17
Not enough data
8.7
15
Not enough data
8.4
19
Not enough data
9.1
20
Agentic AI - Hardware Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
9.2
6
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
9.0
5
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
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Functionality
Not enough data
8.9
64
Not enough data
8.8
65
Not enough data
9.1
64
Not enough data
7.8
54
Management
Not enough data
8.3
56
Not enough data
8.9
65
Not enough data
8.5
61
Not enough data
9.0
61
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
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Not enough data
9.4
6
Not enough data
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Data Sources
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Analytics
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Metrics
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ServiceNow Apps
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
9.0
5
Agentic AI - ServiceNow Store Apps
Not enough data
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Not enough data
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Data Preparation
8.7
5
9.0
67
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Verified
9.0
5
8.8
66
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Not enough data
8.0
61
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Not enough data
8.3
61
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Verified
Analysis
9.0
5
8.3
60
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Verified
8.7
5
8.3
61
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Verified
8.7
5
8.8
62
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9.3
5
8.7
67
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Verified
8.7
5
8.8
62
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Verified
Not enough data
8.2
53
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Verified
Visualization
9.3
5
8.8
67
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Verified
9.7
5
8.7
64
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Verified
Agentic AI - Log Analysis
Not enough data
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Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Hide 19 FeaturesShow 19 Features
Not enough data
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Monitoring
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Response
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Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Not enough data
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Performance
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Functionality
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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)Hide 14 FeaturesShow 14 Features
Not enough data
8.2
30
Network Management
Not enough data
9.1
27
Not enough data
7.3
23
Not enough data
9.3
27
Incident Management
Not enough data
8.9
28
Not enough data
7.8
26
Not enough data
8.5
26
Security Intelligence
Not enough data
7.3
24
Not enough data
6.5
22
Not enough data
8.5
25
Not enough data
8.4
25
Agentic AI - Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Data Transformation
Not enough data
8.7
15
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Verified
Not enough data
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Connectivity
Not enough data
8.3
12
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Not enough data
8.5
11
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Not enough data
8.4
15
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Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Operations
Not enough data
8.8
15
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Not enough data
9.1
13
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Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Not enough data
Building Reports
Not enough data
9.7
5
Not enough data
9.7
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Platform
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Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Elastic Observability and Splunk Enterprise are categorized as AIOps Platforms, Log Monitoring, and Log Analysis
Unique Categories
Elastic Observability is categorized as IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and Insight Engines
Splunk Enterprise is categorized as Enterprise Monitoring, Hardware Monitoring, ServiceNow Store Apps, Customer Data Platform (CDP), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Big Data Analytics, and Analytics Platforms
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Elastic Observability
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Splunk Enterprise
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
26.5%
Computer Software
20.5%
Internet
7.2%
Telecommunications
4.8%
Retail
3.6%
Other
37.3%
Information Technology and Services
26.4%
Computer Software
10.4%
Financial Services
6.7%
Internet
6.2%
Computer & Network Security
5.9%
Other
44.4%
Discussions
what is the best way to sync data with elastic search from SQL server
3 Comments
AT
Write a process that convert each line into Json format and load it into ElasticSearchRead more
Do elastic search use indexes to store the information.
1 Comment
AD
I'll take a stab at answering this question though I'm not 100% sure exactly what you are after.
The way I would explain it is that in elasticsearch an...Read more
Can I use Elasticsearch for free?
1 Comment
GO
https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq
Self-Managed: Yes. From the very beginning, the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash — has been...Read more
Which apps ship with Splunk Enterprise?
1 Comment
SM
Splunk Enterprise comes with a variety of built-in apps and add-ons that provide additional functionality, visualizations, and preconfigured dashboards for...Read more
What are Splunk Enterprise components?
1 Comment
IG
Splunk's 3 main components: Search Head (UI), Indexer (DB) and Forwarder (Endpoint Agent with Universal Forwarder or Aggregation Agent with...Read more
What does Splunk Enterprise do?
1 Comment
SM
Splunk Enterprise is a powerful data analytics platform that allows organizations to collect, index, search, and analyze a wide variety of machine-generated...Read more
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