We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Splunk APM 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."I like that AppDynamics allows every organization to have what they want to see, like for my organization, we're able to customize the dashboard to show us details of what we want to see in our transactions."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement...It is a very stable solution."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to take a report, and in particular, a visual, and link it to actual application performance and then the consequences. This means you can show how an incident or action has an effect on the business."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us... Most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We have highly scalable systems and AppDynamics will help us monitor our load on-prem. Our systems range from simple to the most complex and it gives us the visibility across transactions, in one dashboard."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The UI could use a little help."
"The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first screen you see."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"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."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. 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 APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Monte Carlo, Elastic Observability and Observe. See our AppDynamics vs. Splunk APM report.
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