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."It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"It's made it easier to collaborate across teams; be able to have the same data immediately in front of you just by sharing a URL."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"It is a stable solution."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"Positive features include replication capabilities, software development kits, and the architecture."
"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."
"The SIEM is the most valuable feature of the product."
"Splunk's interface is user-friendly, and it has apps and add-ons for most applications. We can easily normalize the data to make it readable and understand the logs. We easily get all the field extractions and enrichment done by using the apps and add-ons. This helps us understand the application logs because the raw data is useless unless we extract some useful information from it. These add-ons make it so much easier."
"There are lots of free learning materials on their website."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Splunk's strongest suit is its user interface. We can integrate multiple solutions and adjust settings in the Splunk interface."
"From my experience, the visual aid that it provides is most valuable. There are charts and other means to provide information."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"SQL statement monitoring"
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"The UI could use a little help."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"An area that has room for improvement on the CR and ERP would be the addition of monitoring of the internal solution. For example, you can monitor the day-to-day and everything in the transactions with AppDynamics, but there's also a lot going on in the kernel itself that you cannot monitor. The automation needs to improve as well. As it stands, a lot of customization needs to happen before you can use AppDynamics."
"Its user interface for everything other than the charts can be improved. Some parts of it can be simplified a bit, such as when importing documents that have the network traffic. When you're going through the information about the network traffic, you have to have the expertise, but even if a program is supposed to be for IT support, it is good to make it user-friendly because it gets easier to train people. When something goes wrong, the more difficult a program is in terms of UI, the harder it is to fix the issue."
"There are new services which are coming up. If Splunk can catch up with the speed of Amazon, and with the integration, instead of us waiting for another year or so, that would be good."
"It's difficult to set up initially, and their billing model is also a bit complicated."
"We had some connections issues with the solution at the beginning."
"From the commercial point of view, they have to bring down their costs."
"Splunk ES could have more pre-built integrations and rules. The detection is fairly accurate, but it depends on the rules you create. Splunk's out-of-the-box configuration isn't that useful."
"The glass table feature does not perform as expected."
"Sometimes, there is latency in the logs."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 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, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm SIEM. See our AppDynamics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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