Splunk

Founded by Michael Baum in 2003

Collect, search, and analyze machine data for security and observability

Pricing model

Free Tier, Paid

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Splunk to collect, index, and analyze machine data generated across your servers, applications, and networks. It helps security teams detect threats, run incident investigations, and automate alert responses through security information and event management. Operations engineers can track application health, monitor cloud infrastructure, and isolate root causes of outages using trace telemetry. By gathering logs and system metrics in a unified location, you can audit regulatory compliance, track system availability, and watch user traffic behavior across distributed environments.

What Splunk does

Query server logs using Search Processing LanguageSet up automated email and webhook alerts for system errorsBuild custom dashboards to display real-time performance metricsIngest telemetry using OpenTelemetry collector agentsCorrelate firewall and network logs to block malicious IP addressesGenerate audit trails and regulatory reports for system accessInspect application traces to identify database query bottlenecksIndexes unstructured log data from servers, network devices, and applications without fixed schemasSearches petabyte-scale telemetry across multi-cloud and on-premise environmentsProvides automated incident response workflows through security orchestration playbooksDetects unusual user and entity behavior using statistical anomaly modelsCorrelates infrastructure metrics with application performance tracesTracks LLM token usage, model drift, and agent activity costsOffers pre-built dashboards and search queries for compliance reporting

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free tier, Paid

PlanList price

Splunk Observability Cloud Free EditionFree

Splunk Observability Cloud Infrastructure (per host) (annual billing)$15 / mo, billed annually

Splunk Observability Cloud App & Infra (per host) (annual billing)$60 / mo, billed annually

Splunk Observability Cloud End-to-End (per host) (annual billing)$75 / mo, billed annually

Splunk Agent Observability (per 1.2 million spans annually) (annual billing)$100 / mo, billed annually

Splunk Agent Observability Free EditionFree

Splunk AppDynamics Infrastructure Edition (per vCPU) (annual billing)$6 / mo, billed annually

Splunk AppDynamics Premium Edition (per host) (annual billing)$33 / mo, billed annually

Splunk AppDynamics Enterprise Edition (per host) (annual billing)$50 / mo, billed annually

Splunk On-Call (per user) (annual billing)$5 / mo, billed annually

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