Logentries vs Splunk Cloud: What are the differences?

Logentries: Real-time log management and analytics built for the cloud. Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users; Splunk Cloud: 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.

Logentries and Splunk Cloud can be primarily classified as "Log Management" tools.

Some of the features offered by Logentries are:

• Logs as Metrics - Extract field level values, analyze them using powerful search functions, and visualize them with detailed dashboards.
• Dynamic Log Correlation - Dynamically group and correlate your logs in a single dashboard, or aggregate logs from a particular system to give an end-to-end view.
• Live Tail - View your streaming logs in real-time and highlight important events to easily see errors or exceptions in your live data.

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

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

PedidosYa, Accenture, and Movielala are some of the popular companies that use Logentries, whereas Splunk Cloud is used by All Events in City, SendHub, and Authy. Logentries has a broader approval, being mentioned in 136 company stacks & 18 developers stacks; compared to Splunk Cloud, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.