Splunk On vs Splunk Observability Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Splunk On
This app is a collaboration and incident management platform for on-call DevOps teams. It enhances situational awareness and expedites incident resolution with tools for passive expert engagement, improving system uptime and team quality of life.
- Live Timeline of monitoring data
- Incident alerts via push, SMS, email, phone
- Acknowledge and resolve incidents from mobile
- Chat about issues and contribute insights
- Swap on-call shifts easily
- View next on-call information
- Capture resolution details
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Splunk On-Call is a collaboration and incident management platform for on-call DevOps teams. Through a combination of increased situational awareness for all team members and tools that encourage passive engagement from relevant experts, Splunk On-Call expedites incident resolution while improving quality of life for the individuals who keep systems running 24x7. Designed to work in conjunction with the Splunk On-Call service, the iOS application allows on call DevOps teams to: *View a live Timeline of monitoring data that provides ongoing status updates, not just alerts when something goes wrong *Be alerted of Incidents via push notification, SMS, email or phone call *View, Acknowledge and Resolve incidents in your monitoring system from your mobile device *Acknowledge and Resolve incidents directly from push notifications without launching app *View contact information and team member presence directly in the application *Chat about issues and contribute insights, even if you’re not on call *Swap on-call with the click of a button *Next on-call information readily available within the app, and using our Today Widget. *Capture resolution details to expedite future remediation and build team intelligence around healthy system behavior *Universal app works on iPad and iPhone A Splunk On-Call account is required to use this application.
Splunk Observability Cloud
Access critical system metrics and alerts from your Splunk Observability Cloud instance on the go. Gain situational awareness and conduct high-level investigations before transitioning to desktop tools.
- View, filter, and search dashboards
- Access active alert details
- Gain context on triggering conditions
- Conduct high-level investigations
- Extend desktop capabilities
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Splunk Observability Cloud for Mobile is a companion app to the Splunk Observability Cloud platform that extends users capabilities beyond the desktop. Mobile access to check system critical metrics provides increased situational awareness for all team members and encourages passive engagement for relevant users. Using Splunk Observability Cloud for mobile, you can: • View, filter, and search for dashboards and alerts from your Splunk Observability Cloud instance. • Gain context on active alerts such as triggering conditions and detector details. • Conduct high level investigation before transitioning to the Splunk Observability Cloud platform or other relevant tools.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Splunk Observability Cloud at 3.7 against Splunk On's 2.5. Splunk Observability Cloud also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). Splunk On's advantage is review sentiment (27% vs 0%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Splunk Observability Cloud holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 27% of Splunk On's written reviews are positive against 0% of Splunk Observability Cloud's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Splunk On ships an update every 6 weeks, Splunk Observability Cloud monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Splunk On | Splunk Observability Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (15 ratings) | 3.7 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VictorOps, Inc. | Splunk Inc. |
Customer experience
Splunk On
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In-app purchases
Splunk On
No in-app purchases
Splunk Observability Cloud
No in-app purchases
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