BigPanda vs Splunk APM comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

BigPanda
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (43rd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (10th), AIOps (16th)
Splunk APM
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of BigPanda is 0.7%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk APM is 0.4%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Unique Categories:
IT Alerting and Incident Management
2.4%
AIOps
2.4%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
0.8%
 

Featured Reviews

CS
Jul 21, 2022
Bad AI with primitive visualization and not configurable
We wanted a 'one-stop-shop' for event monitoring, visualization, and infrastructure development with AI. Unfortunately, BigPanda attempts a little bit of everything and fails at most.  The AI, in particular, was worthless. The visualization is primitive and not configurable. The only thing they…
Nagendra Nekkala. - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 20, 2023
Offers end-to-end visibility, real-time monitoring, and distributed tracing, enabling organizations to optimize application performance and troubleshoot issues efficiently
Providing comprehensive visibility throughout the environment, it monitors my system, enhances career performance, and offers insights into the user experience. Troubleshooting and visualizing a cloud-native environment is made easy with Splunk APM. It provides complete visibility into software tools, swiftly monitoring business performance and applications. It possesses the capability to conduct distributed tracing within our environment. This includes monitoring the speed of tracked access, extending from end users to the Internet, system, and network services, and supporting my software application. Consequently, it offers an end-to-end overview of potential bottlenecks. Splunk APM has significantly enhanced our organizational efficiency. Initially, my responsibilities included tracking website application performance, managing applications, and handling license releases. Now, it provides real-time user monitoring, transforming the way I handle these tasks. It significantly impacts our organization's telemetry data, improving operational performance and user experience. The platform provides insights into application performance and effective log management. Ensuring accurate tracking of all performance-related logs contributes to building up the application performance percentage with comprehensive data. It contributed to a daily reduction of six hours in our mean time to resolve.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The main thing that we like about BigPanda is the user interface."
"The best of a bad lot was the error message deduping."
"One of the most valuable features of BigPanda is its user-friendly interface."
"The solution is user-friendly and has good performance and certification."
"BigPanda integrates well with other solutions, such as WatchGuard,"
"We have also made extensive use of the outbound integrations to ticketing systems (JIRA) and collaboration tools (Slack). The main driver for us has been getting all alerting into a single UI and enabling us to streamline our incident management process."
"The most valuable features of BigPanda are the API integration was good. It enables us to do faster onboarding."
"Alert aggregation was the primary requirement. BigPanda pulls all this together into a single UI for us, allowing us to see related alerts grouped together into an incident, and enables us to easily create a JIRA ticket and Slack channel to manage an issue."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
 

Cons

"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"Lacks sufficient dashboard features."
"The usability needs to improve, because it is a pure code environment."
"We had to use a partner for the deployment."
"The UI for this solution could be improved. It is very hard to find what you are looking for."
"BigPanda attempts a little of everything and fails at most."
"BigPanda can improve the correlations. We didn't see any big value. It is still good at the same event deduplication, event processing, and ticket creation, but I was more looking at event analysis and event correlation. In that area, it is still no big difference between the other solutions on the market. All of them, are in the same immature stage."
"Analytics is an area for improvement, being able to break down the actions that are being taken by users of BigPanda, as well as the auto-magical work that is being done by BigPanda."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"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."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"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."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of BigPanda is in the middle compared to other solutions."
"We pay $200,000 USD per year."
"They were great to work with on pricing/licensing. Given we are a high-growth company, we needed a flexible site license."
"BigPanda is cheaper than the competitors."
"The price of Slunk APM is less than some of its competitors."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Splunk APM is a very cost-efficient solution."
"Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Healthcare Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
What do you like most about BigPanda?
One of the most valuable features of BigPanda is its user-friendly interface.
What do you like most about SignalFx?
The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.
What needs improvement with SignalFx?
Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure.
What is your primary use case for SignalFx?
We use Splunk APM for performance testing.
 

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