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."The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"It is a stable solution."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"Splunk is quite flexible for our customers. Splunk does not filter from a specific lock, you can define it later."
"The dashboards are the most valuable feature. We like the ability to drill in and see what queries are under the dashboard, build new visualizations, edit the querying, and see the reports."
"The visibility is amazing with easy dashboard creation."
"The most valuable features in Splunk are the search function and the ability to run selected session reports. The session reports are important because I can use them to see what is going on in our environment weekly. Additionally, we can use the graph to see how often that particular event is happening."
"The ability to view all of these different logs, then drilling down into specific times or into specific data sources, has proved to be the greatest aspect in decreasing our troubleshooting overhead time."
"It has helped us look at modern technology, as well as penetrate our legacy systems, to see where the bottlenecks are."
"It allows the centralization of data and makes possible new sorts of correlations that were previously impossible using traditional SIEMs such as ArcSight or QRadar."
"Search language is easy to understand and teach to new users."
"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."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"I would like to see an updated dashboard. The dashboard is a little out-of-date. It could be made prettier."
"In the next releases, I would like to see more pricing flexibility."
"It works as intended for us, and we are getting everything that we need out of it. If anything, its initial setup can be improved a bit."
"The glass table feature does not perform as expected."
"If possible, we would like to have not only a log monitoring system but a network monitoring feature in this solution as well."
"We usually have to follow up with technical support on our open cases."
"The threat detection library needs to increase the frequency at which the playbooks are updated."
"The Web Application Firewall will send you too much information because it's more dedicated to security than a normal firewall."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 154 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st 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, Elastic Security and LogRhythm SIEM. See our AppDynamics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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