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."It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"Before we moved the code to AppDynamics, we had to compare the agile process and also had to make sure that they're following the standards."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"It helps streamline troubleshooting and log analysis."
"The solution has made us more secure."
"It's basically one of the best SIEM products on the market."
"The ability to ingest different log types from many different products in our environment is most valuable."
"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."
"It is easy to use in any environment."
"The correlation capabilities are the first value that our clients say they like with Splunk."
"We have found all the features useful. However, the dashboarding and logging have been very helpful. Additionally, the log analysis does a great job."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"For on-premise, it's more about optimization. With such a heavy byte scale of data that we are operating on, the search for disparate data sometimes takes about a minute. This is understandable considering the amount of data that we are pumping into it. The only optimization that I recommend is better sharding, when it comes to Splunk, so that data retrieval can be faster."
"There is a definite learning curve to starting out."
"Its pricing is extremely high. There are other tools out in the market that are competitive. They do not necessarily have all the functionality, but they are competitive. The professional services we have used have been high as well in comparison to the market."
"Splunk does not provide any default threat intelligence like Microsoft Sentinel, but you can integrate any third-party threat intelligence with Splunk. By default, no threat intelligence suite is there, whereas, with IBM QRadar or Microsoft Sentinel, the default feature of threat intelligence is there. It is free. If Splunk can provide a default threat intelligence suite, it would be better."
"It would be great if I could have a certain dialogue box in Splunk that uses innovative AI tools like ChatGPT, which are available now in the tech department."
"Splunk needs to be able to hold more days of data. At the moment it only holds three months of data."
"If you monitor too much, you can lose performance on your systems."
"The product was designed for security and IT with business intelligence needs, such as PDF exporting, but this has not been the highest priority. While the functionality is there, it could be developed more."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd 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, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm SIEM. See our AppDynamics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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