We performed a comparison between Instana Dynamic APM 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."Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."
"It is a stable solution."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"Visualizations helped the organisation with a better understanding of its KPIs."
"The speed of the search engine"
"We primarily use it to correlate logs throughout the enterprise for both searching and use in investigations."
"I have not seen any outages in the product in the past two years that it has been running in our company, so I think it is good when it comes to the stability part."
"We saw the granularity that we could get from Splunk far exceeded what we already had. We had the ability to have our security team really focus on the platform and stay within the platform, but they could correlate with a variety of other stakeholders, and our stakeholders were growing."
"The ability to ingest different log types from many different products in our environment is most valuable."
"It's better than IBM, in my opinion, because it's an independent entity."
"We have a one stop dashboard for health of some of our services where you can click in and it takes you to other dashboards that have custom near real-time metrics that show the application's health."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."
"Being a SIEM solution with a centralized dashboard, we would like to have more options to customize it."
"Not even Splunk's support guy, who came to our firm, could help with defining proper role management."
"If possible, we would like to have not only a log monitoring system but a network monitoring feature in this solution as well."
"I feel as though a major focus of upcoming releases should be set on Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, and I would enjoy to see more security focused add-ons and apps developed by the vendor."
"It currently has limited default rules and customizations. If they can concentrate more on the compliance part and the security information part, it would be helpful. The platform part is good, but it requires many features from the security aspect."
"It could be more user friendly, in terms of the end-user experience."
"Its interface could be improved."
"Considering the contract thing and the whole legal area, it takes forever to get the contracts signed and to be able to agree to the terms and conditions for my company as well as for Splunk's team."
Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 251 reviews. Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". 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 ". Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Elastic Observability and IBM Application Performance Management, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Instana Dynamic APM vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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