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Splunk vs Tableau: What are the differences?
Splunk: Search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data. Splunk Inc. provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data; Tableau: Tableau helps people see and understand data. Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click.
Splunk can be classified as a tool in the "Log Management" category, while Tableau is grouped under "Business Intelligence".
Avocode, Zumba, and SoFi are some of the popular companies that use Tableau, whereas Splunk is used by Starbucks, Intuit, and Razorpay. Tableau has a broader approval, being mentioned in 67 company stacks & 38 developers stacks; compared to Splunk, which is listed in 31 company stacks and 29 developer stacks.
Very easy-to-use UI. Good way to make data available inside the company for analysis.
Has some built-in visualizations and can be easily integrated with other JS visualization libraries such as D3.
Can be embedded into product to provide reporting functions.
Support team are helpful.
The only complain I have is lack of API support. Hard to track changes as codes and automate report deployment.
Power BI is really easy to start with. If you have just several Excel sheets or CSV files, or you build your first automated pipeline, it is actually quite intuitive to build your first reports.
And as we have kept growing, all the additional features and tools were just there within the Azure platform and/or Office 365.
Since we started building Mews, we have already passed several milestones in becoming start up, later also a scale up company and now getting ready to grow even further, and during all these phases Power BI was just the right tool for us.
Pros of Splunk
- Alert system based on custom query results2
- API for searching logs, running reports2
- Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc2
- Ability to style search results into reports1
- Query any log as key-value pairs1
- Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc1
- Granular scheduling and time window support1
- Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing1
- Dashboarding on any log contents1
- Rich GUI for searching live logs1
Pros of Tableau
- Capable of visualising billions of rows4
- Intuitive and easy to learn1
- Responsive1
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Cons of Splunk
- Splunk query language rich so lots to learn1
Cons of Tableau
- Very expensive for small companies1
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