We performed a comparison between Splunk APM and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 42nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Splunk APM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Datadog, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Prometheus, Sentry and Chronosphere.
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