Splunk Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

"Transformative Solution" says a Director of IT in a $30B+ retailer. "Best Monitoring and Observability Tool > Splunk," is how a software engineer in a software company labels it. These are only a couple of the terms our customers use when describing the value they are getting from Splunk. With these descriptions in mind, we are elated that Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms for the second year in a row in this category.

Splunk’s leadership in the Observability market comes on the heels of Splunk being named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) just about two months ago, which is the tenth consecutive time for Splunk in the Leaders Quadrant for that category. The old proverb says that good things come in pairs, and indeed Splunk delivers a whole lot of goodness for both Observability and Security, with Splunk being the singular vendor to appear in the Leaders Quadrant across both Magic Quadrant reports.

Gartner says that successful deployment of observability platforms leads to avoidance of revenue loss and enables faster product development cycles and improvements in brand perception. Splunk brings SecOps, ITOps, and engineering teams together to prevent major issues, remediate faster, and adapt quickly. To do all this, we at Splunk need to innovate and bring tremendous value to you, our customers. Our innovations over the past year included continued refinement of our end-to-end troubleshooting experience, enhancements to OpenTelemetry that combine all the benefits of this amazing open-source project with the ease of deployment and level of support you’d expect from an enterprise solution, helping you manage the cost of telemetry data, and the ability to monitor your SLOs. But it doesn’t end there. A month ago at Splunk .conf24, we announced a whole new set of innovations to help you make your business more resilient.

Customer environments cover a wide range of infrastructure and applications, from on-prem to public cloud, to multi-cloud, from 3-tier applications to microservices, and anywhere in between. It’s not surprising you demand an observability platform that would help you identify and resolve issues regardless of where an application is running or what its architecture is. You’ve probably heard by now that Splunk is officially a part of Cisco. We have already started down the path of creating a unified observability platform based on Splunk and Cisco AppDynamics.

Splunk has a long history in the observability market — organizations across all industries use the Splunk Platform to monitor and troubleshoot their infrastructure and applications. In recent years, with the introduction of Splunk Observability Cloud, many of our customers got unmatched visibility into cloud-native infrastructure and services, and microservices-based applications, super-charging the scale of environments they can monitor, their ability to home in on the most important issues to their business, and the speed in which they get to root cause. To complement that, Cisco AppDynamics brings a proven platform, trusted by thousands of customers, to monitor three-tier and hybrid applications. With the forces of Splunk and Cisco joined together, you will be able to enjoy a whole new level of understanding, troubleshooting, and monitoring across your entire stack, regardless of your app architecture. 

We started this blog post with what you—our customers—say to us, so we see it fit to end with something we say to you: THANK YOU! Thank you for making Splunk a part of your business, and for making this recognition possible.

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