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."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."
"We had no issues with scalability. It was very good for us."
"Provides good overall application performance and transaction errors."
"Immediately allows you to see the relationships between the different nodes."
"Application Analytics' most valuable features are the real-user monitoring and the agents installed in the software stack on the application server."
"It's pretty stable."
"The analytics are great."
"The best part of Splunk Enterprise Security is its customizable settings."
"Exporting is a good feature. It helps me out when I have to do reports. I do a lot of exporting and crunching of the numbers. Dashboards are okay for showing to the leadership, but for doing statistics and updating tickets, the export feature is very beneficial for me."
"It can log more logs than other solutions. It's a good way to troubleshoot problems."
"The most valuable features are the logs, which allow us to identify what happened and who interacted with the web repository."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is able to process a huge amount of data without any issues."
"The initial setup is simple, not very complex. Initial deployment takes around 10 to 15 minutes to set up the entire base for Splunk including all three tiers."
"We primarily use it to correlate logs throughout the enterprise for both searching and use in investigations."
"I like the search feature and the indexing. It's very fast and comprehensive."
"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."
"Customization requires a few manual tweaks."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Application Analytics' performance in pure and native cloud environments could be improved."
"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 user experience is quite confusing. There are too many different development stages. The UI is not very intuitive."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I love the solution, but I would like to see more accessibility to the machine-learning capabilities that are sprinkled around Splunk."
"The initial setup is complex, but this is necessary. We needed to take into consideration how to direct log files from thousands of machines to Splunk, and how to ingest those files."
"The administration of the cluster and app deployment to indexers or search heads can be done only using ssh access and command line, there is no GUI tools for that."
"I would like Splunk to add more integration. QRadar has many indications with more products than Splunk."
"We would like more integrations with other cloud products, not just AWS, e.g., Azure."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
"Previously, they developed custom connectors or add-ons for a lot of applications. But that number can be upgraded still. There are a lot of applications in the world that are not supported."
"The GUI can be improved. Splunk has always suffered from having a kind of goofy UI, it needs some updating."
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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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