Splunk Observability Cloud

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Paid

Open source

No

Self-hosted

No

Launched

2021

Status

Active

Website

splunk.com

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Observability platforms checklist

9 of 10 confirmed in Splunk Observability Cloud's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Platforms.

• ? OpenTelemetry (OTLP) ingest Not confirmed
• + Metrics Yes
• + Logs Yes
• + Distributed traces Yes
• + APM Yes
• + Real user monitoring Yes
• + Synthetic checks Yes
• + Continuous profiling Yes
• + Built-in alerting Yes
• + SLO tracking Yes

Logs are read from Splunk Cloud/Enterprise via Log Observer Connect; direct OTLP intake without the Splunk collector distribution not confirmed

Checked against: help.splunk.com, help.splunk.com (2), help.splunk.com (3), help.splunk.com (4), help.splunk.com (5), help.splunk.com (6)

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