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."The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"AppDynamics makes it much easier for us to detect problems or issues before they become problems. We have alerting on all of our business transactions."
"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."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"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."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."
"The training on the dashboards that is provided could be a little bit better, as could the use cases. They should have some good examples out there. As it is right now, I had to scour YouTube to find some stuff."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"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."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"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."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
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, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Observe. See our AppDynamics vs. Splunk APM report.
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