Librato vs Splunk Cloud

Librato vs Splunk Cloud: What are the differences?

Developers describe Librato as "Real-Time Cloud Monitoring". Librato provides a complete solution for monitoring and understanding the metrics that impact your business at all levels of the stack. We provide everything you need to visualize, analyze, and actively alert on the metrics that matter to you. On the other hand, Splunk Cloud is detailed as "Easy and fast way to analyze valuable machine data with the convenience of software as a service (SaaS)". If you're looking for all the benefits of Splunk® Enterprise with all the benefits of software-as-a-service, then look no further. Splunk Cloud is backed by a 100% uptime SLA, scales to over 10TB/day, and offers a highly secure environment.

Librato can be classified as a tool in the "Performance Monitoring" category, while Splunk Cloud is grouped under "Log Management".

Some of the features offered by Librato are:

• REST API accepts any metrics you define
• Turnkey integration with AWS, Heroku, collectd, and more
• Integrates with more than 100 open-source agents, and language bindings

On the other hand, Splunk Cloud provides the following key features:

• Splunk Cloud delivers all the features of award-winning Splunk® Enterprise, as a cloud-based service. The platform provides access to various apps and enables centralized visibility across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments
• Instant: Instant trial and instant conversion from POC to production
• Secure: Completed SOC2 Type 2 Attestation*. Dedicated cloud environments for each customer

"Easy setup" is the primary reason why developers consider Librato over the competitors, whereas "More powerful & Integrates with on-prem & off-prem" was stated as the key factor in picking Splunk Cloud.

According to the StackShare community, Librato has a broader approval, being mentioned in 61 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Splunk Cloud, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.