Nutanix Prism vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

The compared Nutanix and Splunk solutions aren't in the same category. Nutanix is ranked #5 in VM , with an average rating of 8.8, and holds a 10.7% mindshare in the category. Splunk is ranked #3 in APM , with an average rating of 8.2, and holds a 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Nutanix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

Nutanix Prism

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98% willing to recommend

Splunk AppDynamics

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10,377 Comparison Views

91% willing to recommend

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ROI

Sentiment score

6.9

Nutanix Prism enhances management efficiency, reduces costs, and provides ROI through staff reduction and streamlined operations despite higher initial costs.

Sentiment score

6.5

Investments in Splunk AppDynamics improve productivity, software quality, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency, enhancing customer satisfaction and reducing costs.

Initially, the CapEx was higher than VMware's, but considering the operational cost over time, it has been beneficial.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

You will get 60% ROI with Nutanix Prism on-premises.

MukundKambli

Lead Solutions Architect at Team Computers

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Overall, as a production gatekeeper, we achieve at least 50% efficiency immediately, with potential savings ranging from 60 to 70% as well, reinforcing why it is a popular tool in the banking industry.

DevendraKumar1

Technology lead at Infosys

According to errors, exceptions, and code-level details related to their application performance on a daily basis, the application development team tries to help with Splunk AppDynamics to reduce errors and exceptions, which helps the end users get application availability and feel more confident.

Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

To understand the magnitude of it, when the company asked to replace Splunk AppDynamics with another tool, I indicated that for the proposed tool, we would need five people to do the analysis that Splunk AppDynamics enables me to do.

Konstantinos Michailidis

Digital Performance Tester at Amdocs

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.7

Nutanix Prism support is praised for prompt, knowledgeable service, high reliability, and effective resolution of complex issues.

Sentiment score

7.2

Splunk AppDynamics is praised for responsive customer service, though some complex issue resolutions need improvement.

Basic means standard business hours support, Production means 24/7, Mission Critical means faster SLA with technical account managers connectivity, and Ultimate means full white-glove support with a dedicated team.

Usha Rani

Director at Eglobe infra solutions

Nutanix support is excellent, and their response time is extremely fast.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

If there is any hardware issue with HP or Dell, customers don't need to raise tickets with the hardware OEM. They can raise tickets on the Nutanix portal itself.

MukundKambli

Lead Solutions Architect at Team Computers

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AppDynamics is much more helpful.

Eduardo Gallardo

Director of Technical Part at NOS SGPS

We got a contact, an account manager, to work directly with for technical support.

NagadevanMuthusamy

Performance Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

They help us resolve any issues raised by our team relating to operations, application instrumentation, or any other issues.

Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

Nutanix Prism is highly praised for its effortless scalability, supporting large environments with minimal downtime and straightforward expansion.

Sentiment score

7.3

AppDynamics is scalable and adaptable, though costly for small enterprises, with seamless scalability and effective monitoring capabilities.

Nutanix Prism is completely scalable; you can add nodes and disks without using downtime, allowing for easy scaling.

Biniyam Samuel

Junior System Cloud Engineer at DeliverICT

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We have reached maximum capacity in our tier, and extending capacity has not been cost-effective from Splunk's perspective.

reviewer2674446

Senior Principal, Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

I would rate the scalability of Splunk AppDynamics as a nine out of ten.

Konstantinos Michailidis

Digital Performance Tester at Amdocs

I assess how Splunk AppDynamics scales with the growing needs of my organization as good, since we are growing and adding more servers.

reviewer2756163

Development Operations Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

Nutanix Prism is highly reliable and stable, with quick bug resolutions, minor update challenges, and excellent user satisfaction.

Sentiment score

7.8

Splunk AppDynamics is praised for reliability and stability, with minimal downtime despite occasional glitches or isolated performance concerns.

The entire Nutanix solution is stable.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

I have not experienced any downtimes, crashes, or performance issues with Nutanix Prism.

Biniyam Samuel

Junior System Cloud Engineer at DeliverICT

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It is necessary to conduct appropriate testing before deploying them in production to prevent potential outages.

reviewer2674446

Senior Principal, Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

There are no issues or bugs with the 20.4 version; it is very stable with no functionality or operational issues.

Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

Splunk AppDynamics is superior to any alternative, including Dynatrace.

DevendraKumar1

Technology lead at Infosys

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Room For Improvement

Nutanix Prism needs interface, pricing, and automation improvements, better third-party integration, enhanced analytics, migration ease, and licensing flexibility.

Users want better integration, modern UI, improved network monitoring, cloud support, and user-friendly navigation in Splunk AppDynamics.

The presales and marketing team should inform clients about resource requirements, such as RAM used by CVM, to help manage expectations.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

Regarding Nutanix Prism's single pane overview, the limitation is that you cannot troubleshoot all errors from Prism Central; you sometimes need to log into the CLI to change settings such as the IP address of the CVM in the AHV.

Biniyam Samuel

Junior System Cloud Engineer at DeliverICT

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Splunk AppDynamics does not support the complete MELT framework, which includes metrics, events, logging, and tracing for the entire stack.

reviewer2674446

Senior Principal, Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

If AppDynamics could develop a means to monitor without an agent, it could significantly improve application performance and reduce potential problems.

Muhammad Zeeshan Siddiqui

Head of Technology and Services at arwentech

A good integration with Splunk would be very interesting, as Splunk is a good product for logs, and that part is currently missing in Splunk AppDynamics.

Eduardo Gallardo

Director of Technical Part at NOS SGPS

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Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers find Nutanix Prism's pricing variable, appreciating features but noting high costs and complex licensing compared to alternatives.

Enterprise buyers should consider AppDynamics' complex pricing and value for monitoring, despite it being more expensive than alternatives.

At first, the cost seemed heavy, but over time, its cost-effectiveness became evident.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

I hear that Nutanix Prism is more expensive than others, but as a technical person, I don't know the details about the pricing aspect.

Biniyam Samuel

Junior System Cloud Engineer at DeliverICT

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We completed a three-year deal for Splunk and for AppDynamics, which costs millions of dollars.

reviewer2756163

Development Operations Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Customers have to pay a premium price, however, they receive considerable value from the product.

Muhammad Zeeshan Siddiqui

Head of Technology and Services at arwentech

All these solutions at the moment are cheap, but it is like paying for insurance; you pay insurance to avoid major damage.

reviewer2674446

Senior Principal, Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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Valuable Features

Nutanix Prism excels with unified management, intuitive interface, automation, and analytics, enhancing IT operations and infrastructure management.

AppDynamics provides comprehensive monitoring and diagnostics tools for optimizing application performance and enhancing infrastructure visibility.

Nutanix Prism is completely scalable; you can add nodes and disks without downtime, allowing for easy scaling.

Biniyam Samuel

Junior System Cloud Engineer at DeliverICT

One of the most useful features is the disaster recovery setup, which includes two clusters, one for our production server and another for our recovery site.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

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We have multiple tools, but end users prefer to use Splunk AppDynamics because their portal navigation is very simple and clear.

Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

The real user monitoring and digital experience monitoring effectively track actual user experience with the applications, including page loading, interaction time for both desktop and mobile applications.

Mohammed Hassan

Regional Director at iSecureMind

This is the best feature because, although you can't monitor a whole application at once, Splunk AppDynamics gives you the option that if there is any failure—simple failure regarding anything set up as per our use cases—you will get an alert.

DevendraKumar1

Technology lead at Infosys

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Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Prism

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Virtualization Management Tools (5th), Data Center Infrastructure Management (5th)

Splunk AppDynamics

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

258

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (3rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (6th), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

Nutanix Prism and Splunk AppDynamics aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Nutanix Prism is designed for Virtualization Management Tools and holds a mindshare of 10.7%, down 14.7% compared to last year.
Splunk AppDynamics, on the other hand, focuses on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability, holds 3.6% mindshare, down 5.3% since last year.

Virtualization Management Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Nutanix Prism	10.7%
VMware Aria Operations	27.1%
IBM Turbonomic	11.9%
Other	50.300000000000004%

Virtualization Management Tools

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Splunk AppDynamics	3.6%
Dynatrace	6.6%
Datadog	5.5%
Other	84.3%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Usha Rani

Director at Eglobe infra solutions

Provides comprehensive management with AI-driven insights and predictive analytics for seamless IT operations

The major improvement recommended for Nutanix Prism is more multi-cloud cost optimization. It shows performance and usage but is limited in detailed cross-cloud cost analysis. Improvement is needed for deeper FinOps-style ML insights that compare costs between on-premise, AWS, Azure, etc. Enhancements for the current mobile version of Prism are necessary as its functions are limited. Full mobile native control with real-time alerts and AI suggestions are required for one-click actions. Better integration with third-party tools and predictive maintenance for hardware is needed; currently, the focus is on VM and storage, not hardware life cycle. Predictions for node-level hardware failures or SSD wear-out, fan sensor alerts in advance are essential improvements, as is AI-based security threat detection focusing on unusual login patterns such as ransomware behavior or privilege escalations.

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DevendraKumar1

Technology lead at Infosys

Has enabled us to detect issues instantly through alerts and monitor every service from a single dashboard

Splunk requires significantly more improvements compared to Splunk AppDynamics, specifically regarding the licensing aspect. Splunk renews licenses every six months, which is inconvenient. It would be better to have a one-year license to avoid needing to update keys constantly, which can only occur on weekends, making it a burdensome task. Although Splunk is better for certain use cases, Splunk AppDynamics is broader in functionality. Specifically, I want enhancements related to creating dashboards not only for logs or minor services but also for configuration levels, allowing us to check configurations immediately without manually opening the entire code when exceptions arise—a feature I wish to see improved in Splunk, although it may not be necessary for Splunk AppDynamics.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

25%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	25
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	28

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	55
Midsize Enterprise	36
Large Enterprise	193

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Nutanix Prism?

Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Prism?

I hear that Nutanix Prism is more expensive than others, but as a technical person, I don't know the details about the pricing aspect.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Prism?

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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...

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What do you like most about AppDynamics?

The solution saves time and cost.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics?

I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten. The solution is highly expensive. Our company pays for the solution on a yearly basis, if we don't add new modules or features to the license, we need ...

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Overview

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

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Splunk AppDynamics enhances application performance monitoring with advanced diagnostics and real-time insights, offering seamless end-to-end transaction tracking and infrastructure visibility.

AppDynamics provides critical tools for businesses to analyze application behavior and performance. Through innovative features like transaction snapshot analysis and adaptable dashboards, users can quickly identify and address issues, ensuring high levels of system uptime and efficiency. It is designed to support complex environments including Kubernetes and AWS, enhancing user experience by detecting performance issues early. Despite needing improvements in network monitoring and integration, it remains a robust option for tracking application health.

What are the key features of AppDynamics?

Real-time Performance Monitoring: Offers immediate insights into application behavior.
Business Transaction Tracking: Tracks transactions from start to finish for bottleneck identification.
JVM Memory Monitoring: Provides detailed JVM metrics and memory use information.
Deep-dive Diagnostics: Enables in-depth analysis of code and stack traces.
Adaptable Dashboards: Customizable views for better data interpretation.

How does AppDynamics benefit users?

Improved Incident Resolution: Faster problem detection and solution implementation.
Enhanced Application Performance: Real-time monitoring optimizes system operations.
Comprehensive Visibility: Provides a full view of application infrastructure.
Informed Decision Making: Detailed analytics guide performance improvements.
Customer Satisfaction: Enhances user experience through faster issue resolutions.

In industries like financial services and e-commerce, AppDynamics facilitates performance tracking across distributed systems, optimizing infrastructure to meet consumer demands. It excels in environments needing precise transaction monitoring and is pivotal in delivering high value and satisfaction.

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