Splunk Enterprise comparisons

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Splunk Enterprise is compared head-to-head with ELK Stack, Google Cloud Logging and Amazon CloudWatch Logs and more: 7 head-to-heads in Log Management Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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Splunk Enterprise head-to-head

• Splunk Enterprise vs ELK Stack
• Splunk Enterprise vs Google Cloud Logging
• Splunk Enterprise vs Amazon CloudWatch Logs
• Splunk Enterprise vs Elastic Observability
• Splunk Enterprise vs Sumo Logic
• Splunk Enterprise vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging
• Splunk Enterprise vs IBM Cloud Logs

Splunk Enterprise vs each of them

#	Tool	Free plan	Paid from	Log retention	Log pipelines	Archive export	Deployment options	Score
2	Splunk Enterprise	Yes			Yes	Yes	Self-hosted	9.3
1	ELK Stack	Yes		30 days	Yes	Yes	Both	9.4
3	Google Cloud Logging	Yes	$0.01/GB/mo	30 days	Yes	Yes	Cloud	9.2
4	Amazon CloudWatch Logs	No	$0.03/GB usage-based		Yes	Yes	Cloud	9.1
5	Elastic Observability				Yes	Yes	Both	9.0
6	Sumo Logic	Yes			Yes	Yes	Cloud	8.9
7	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging	Yes	$0.05/GB/mo	30 days	Yes	Yes	Cloud	8.8
8	IBM Cloud Logs	No		7 days	Yes	Yes	Cloud	8.7

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