[floren]

You can add Splunk to the list of companies with a similar clause. As a Splunk competitor it makes sales a bit harder initially (we can show our product's numbers, but nothing to compare them against), but if you can convince customers to set up a head-to-head proof-of-concept of their own, well, they tend to figure out why Splunk doesn't want you publishing benchmarks...

[car_analogy]

How do potential customers react to "These are our numbers. We would compare them with Splunk's, but their license forbids publishing benchmark results"?

[xwolfi]

Can you give your name ? I'm fighting against our Splunk decommission project because the big boys tell us we can just use ELK, to which we reply that it means months of devs to reproduce Splunk abilities, to which they reply human cost is invisible but license cost is a sore point for the board...

I love Splunk, it works so well after data is ingested so... who are you if you're better?

[floren]

It's Gravwell (gravwell.io). Depending on exactly what you're doing in Splunk, it could be a pretty easy transition, and we've even started writing tools to migrate data out of Splunk and into Gravwell. We've got a free 14GB/day community license if you'd like to play with it on your own, or you can email sales for a POC.

[raverbashing]

Heh

The only number you need to compete with Splunk is a smaller price tag. I'd bet a lot of people would switch solutions and not look back

[larkinrichards]

Can one provide a benchmarking suite that anyone can execute without posting the results of the test? Thus allowing others to run the test themselves easily but not putting you on the hook for the result?

[floren]

As I understand it you can give instructions and probably even build tools to do the benchmarking, it's just that when the Splunk customer runs those tools, they are forbidden to share the results with you or anyone else.