We performed a comparison between Instana Infrastructure Monitoring and Splunk APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The product's initial setup is easy."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"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."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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 features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 44th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 1 review while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.0, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring writes "A reasonably stable and scalable tool for monitoring purposes with an easy initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), Zabbix, Amazon CloudWatch, Checkmk and ServiceNow IT Operations Management, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Datadog.
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