We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Application Analytics and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Operations Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Application Analytics' most valuable features are the real-user monitoring and the agents installed in the software stack on the application server."
"All the metrics are baselines in networks, infrastructure, application, and user experience. AppDynamics offers its own query language. It is called ADQL. You can write code of any kind to do queries and analysis and you can use those within the reporting or within other research."
"Immediately allows you to see the relationships between the different nodes."
"We had no issues with scalability. It was very good for us."
"It's pretty stable."
"Provides good overall application performance and transaction errors."
"The analytics are great."
"The visibility is amazing with easy dashboard creation."
"It has reduced the time to resolution, time to investigate, and time to troubleshoot for debugging issues."
"It has the ability to correlate data, analyze and review it."
"It gives us good visibility into multiple environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid; irrespective of platform."
"On the cloud, we are pushing through less than half a petabyte of data. So far, it has been fairly stable because it runs on all the underlying AWS infrastructures."
"The stock analysts and security people use one single dashboard (one single location) to check our logs."
"From my experience, the visual aid that it provides is most valuable. There are charts and other means to provide information."
"It provides a lot of analytics with the underlying AI engine, and it is a lot easier than other solutions. There are some products that do automated AI-based detection and drawing up charts, but for network monitoring and all of the monitoring aspects, it is quite a nice tool. It is very convenient for business users because they get more or less a lot of data readily available. If you're familiar with the Splunk query language, you can pretty much do whatever you want."
"Application Analytics' performance in pure and native cloud environments could be improved."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Customization requires a few manual tweaks."
"This feature needs to be properly described to a client, and then the client needs to have a use case. There are some clients which do not need it and some clients who do. It is not for everyone and is dependant on their use case."
"The challenge in the installation is that you have to configure a lot of things manually. The way you install and configure it is not straightforward."
"The user experience is quite confusing. There are too many different development stages. The UI is not very intuitive."
"The complexity could be worked on so that it's even easier and faster."
"The search could be improved. Now, it is a bit difficult to write search queries because they become quite long, then maintaining those long search queries is a quite challenging."
"Its search or filtering capability is nice, but it can be improved. It is currently a bit complicated, and it should be simplified. If we can write the search filter in a more simplified way, it would be better."
"Its pricing model and integration with third-party services can be improved. We had faced an issue with integration. The alerting feature is currently not available with Splunk, but it is definitely available with Datadog and PagerDuty. They should include this feature. A few dashboards in Splunk look quite old and are not that modern. They aren't bad, but improving these dashboards will definitely make Splunk more attractive and usable. I read in a few blog posts that there were a few security incidents related to Splunk agents. So, it can be made more secure."
"Its reporting can be improved. That's the only complaint I have heard. I don't need the reporting part, but I know that other people in the organization need it."
"I feel the solution to be too slow."
"The setup time is quite long."
"While Splunkbase (the app repository) has a lot of great content, some apps are terribly old and could stand to be updated or purged."
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AppDynamics Application Analytics is ranked 10th in IT Operations Analytics with 11 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in IT Operations Analytics with 240 reviews. AppDynamics Application Analytics is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Application Analytics writes "Good tag and follow features and is easy to expand but is also quite expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". AppDynamics Application Analytics is most compared with , whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our AppDynamics Application Analytics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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