When comparing Splunk Predict vs Skyline, the Slant community recommends Skyline for most people. In the question“What are the best anomaly detection tools?” Skyline is ranked 1st while Splunk Predict is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Skyline is:
Skyline is open source and completely free to use.
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Pros
Pro Powerful predict command
Splunk Predict from version 5.0 has a new predict
command. What this command does is that it performs a prediction for time-series data. The command provides prediction for future several time steps and can fill missing data within a time-series. It also provides accurate confidence intervals for all estimates.
Pro Permissive free software license (MIT)
Skyline is open source and completely free to use.
Pro Flexible
Skyline allows you to use your own anomaly detection algorithms.
Cons
Con No support for concurrent analysis for multiple instances of time series
Splunk's predict
command does not support multiple parallel analysis for multiple time series instances.