We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The SAP monitoring element is very helpful."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"From the performance management side, I like everything from business transaction work to tracking. On the database side, we can get a lot of insights from the database. On the server monitoring side, it helped us a lot to find out some of the issues on the VM side because VMs were creating a little trouble for us."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"There are a lot of third-party applications that can be installed."
"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."
"The ability to manipulate data in Splunk is unparalleled. Splunk’s powerful, flexible query language can morph difficult to understand log formats into usable data."
"The security part is useful as it helps secure the entire environment."
"The flexibility of the solution is quite good."
"UBA, User Behavior Analytics, is a key feature."
"The solution's newly developed dashboard is pretty amazing."
"Search language is easy to understand and teach to new users."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"It needs strengthening in the database tiers."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"We constantly need to improve our alert mechanism because we get a lot of false-positive alerts. These are not real errors. In addition, for end-user monitoring, sometimes, we are not able to catch all user activities. Because of not being able to follow the user activity from the start to the end, we are missing out on the performance issues."
"There can be a bit of complexity around some fields during the initial setup."
"Splunk needs local technical support."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
"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."
"This is not really a monitoring solution."
"The configuration had a bit of a learning curve."
"Although the technical support is adequate, there is still room for improvement."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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 is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and LogRhythm SIEM. See our AppDynamics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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