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 stable solution."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"The AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"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."
"It has the ability to correlate data, analyze and review it."
"It is the best tool if you have a complex environment or if data ingestion is too huge."
"Great platform with user-friendly interface and GUI."
"It is very easy to use and integrate. There are connectors for every technology."
"Its dashboard is valuable. If you have a good knowledge of how to create a dashboard, you can create any dashboard related to cybersecurity. If fine-tuned, the alarms that are triggered for instant review are also very valuable and useful."
"I have found the installation can be of medium difficulty to very complex depending on the use case."
"If I need to integrate devices for logs, it is easier with Splunk. We can integrate different applications, network devices, and databases. It is also very rich in documents. It is the best."
"What I really like is that even if you have already collected the data, you can extract fields and can build searches."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area."
"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."
"You do need a lot of training and certification with this product."
"We will receive alerts only for the administrators and deployment servers, but not for all servers."
"While Splunkbase (the app repository) has a lot of great content, some apps are terribly old and could stand to be updated or purged."
"When you get into large amounts of data, Splunk can get pretty slow. This is the same on-premise or AWS, it doesn't matter. The way that they handle large data sets could be improved."
"The ingestion happens quickly, so you can run up the data costs if you use the default settings. It isn't a problem for government agencies in the Saudi market, but many of the corporations in India are small or medium-sized enterprises that cannot afford that kind of ingestion system."
"We are waiting for Dashboard Studio to mature a little bit more. There are some things that we are using with Classic Dashboards which have not yet made it to Dashboard Studio. We are waiting for that."
". Having a trial version or more training on Splunk would be helpful."
"Their technical support sucks."
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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