We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Splunk APM 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."The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"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."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"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."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"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."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. 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 APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Monte Carlo, Elastic Observability and Observe. See our AppDynamics vs. Splunk APM report.
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