We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"From the performance management side, I like everything from business transaction work to tracking. On the database side, we can get a lot of insights from the database. On the server monitoring side, it helped us a lot to find out some of the issues on the VM side because VMs were creating a little trouble for us."
"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."
"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."
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"Adds value to application owners, DB owners, and provides visibility on how end users utilize browsers and where they are originate from."
"Dynatrace's documentation is great. I love the university."
"Reduced MTTR, thanks to smart problem detection and automated root cause analysis."
"I like the auto email alerting feature the most, as it is set up based on the application error or condition."
"We are able to see globally our end user response time tracing down to the user ID."
"The technical support has always been responsive."
"Finds issues that previously occupied people for months."
"You get a good insight into what is going on inside your code."
"The breadth of the data sources that Splunk can ingest data from is broad and deep and it does an exemplary job at handling structured data."
"It helps us uncover bottlenecks in the network."
"Splunk has a wide range of features that customers use to find and analyze all kinds of logs."
"It is very simple to tweak or write a small piece of glue code to go ahead and create a new dashboard for a business unit to make near real-time decisions to focus more on other geographies when launching the product."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the dashboard. It's very intuitive."
"We are much faster finding and addressing issues with Splunk."
"It has a big user base, so the community is useful."
"It scales better in the cloud than on-premise."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"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."
"I think I would like to see a better way to deploy and upgrade the machine agents that we use. Currently, we have to use SCCM, and that might just be our environment with the customer."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"AppDynamics lacks integration with cloud technology. It probably isn't a good fit for emerging enterprises because it's an on-premise solution, and many newer companies are moving to the cloud. AppDynamics' on-premise technology works reasonably well, but it doesn't have cloud features."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"Searches should be faster."
"We would like to see: * More Integration with cloud services * Simplified licensing * Single pane of glass view * Simplified reporting I* ntegration with ServiceNow and PagerDuty"
"We have had to resolve a lot of things and had a lot of issues with the tool."
"I would like to see the Business Transactions made easier, so you can distinguish users and companies (this can get very hairy for a large multi-tenant application)."
"On the side of the end user experience, I would suggest adding a new service for analyzing the backtrace of users."
"I would like to see more features from the desktop client included in the web client."
"Its price, for sure, should be improved. Its price is quite high. Other than the price, there are always improvements to be made as technologies change. When we move into cloud-based technologies, Dynatrace will also have to adapt so that they can monitor those as well. It should have the adaptability to quickly transform to monitor those new technologies."
"Mainly navigation needs improvement. It is easier to follow a flow. Following the flow of the admin now is not easy."
"Splunk can be an expensive solution. Technical support could be improved as well."
"The threat detection library needs to increase the frequency at which the playbooks are updated."
"The support that is included with the standard licensing fee is very bad."
"Their technical support sucks."
"My company could benefit from doing more Splunk training with Splunk consultants teaching us how to use it."
"It's costly."
"Some of the terminology can be confusing, even for seasoned vets. Renaming components at this point would be a serious undertaking. However, it might be beneficial in the long run."
"The difficult part is related to integration with sources of data that are used to create the logs as this depends on the infrastructure of the client."
