We performed a comparison between Splunk APM and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) 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."The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 42nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Splunk APM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Chronosphere, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Prometheus, Sentry and Chronosphere.
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