We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), 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."It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"We have been able to monitor our applications more accurately."
"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."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"It's easy to use."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
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"The solution has plenty of features that are good."
"The graph visualization is the most valuable feature."
"The dashboard and reporting are very good... It provides very good visibility in a hybrid cloud environment, and you can build custom utilization APIs using Splunk."
"The correlation search functions that generate all the notables are valuable. That can get pretty complicated, and it handles that pretty well."
"I haven't had the chance to properly sink my teeth into Enterprise Security but so far I like that they added the MITRE ATT&CK features."
"We are much faster finding and addressing issues with Splunk."
"The ability to digest any information and then correlate it in accordance with what you need is valuable. The ability to connect to pretty much everything and bring the information in the same format is also valuable. On top of that, we can use their language in order to create and customize the dashboards, correlations, or analytics that we want to incorporate."
"Good for log collection and log management."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"This solution is expensive."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"Installation and configuration can be very tough. An average user without specialized knowledge can't do this. You need to have DevOps and QA teams handle it. During installation, a lot of customers get stuck trying to track the database or the API part, and they have to contact customer support."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"It could be even more automated."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be more stable."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
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"The product must improve insider threat detection."
"The only thing which can be improved is that they are too subjective on whom their Splunk4Good initiative can be applied. They market it as you only need to be a nonprofit, but there is more to it."
"It would be nice if they had a wizard to construct searches, including more complex searches that include math or statistics."
"It requires a significant amount of relatively complex architecture once you push past the single server instance."
"When we do a rollout from the server or host or anything, we'd like to see more automation. It would save us time."
"If possible, we would like to have not only a log monitoring system but a network monitoring feature in this solution as well."
"Missing capability for audio/video and image processing."
"The product could be cheaper."
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