We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Before we moved the code to AppDynamics, we had to compare the agile process and also had to make sure that they're following the standards."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to take a report, and in particular, a visual, and link it to actual application performance and then the consequences. This means you can show how an incident or action has an effect on the business."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"Daily metrics which us analyze the page composition and the corresponding performance metrics so we can quickly and easily determine when something has changed, to aid in root cause analysis."
"The agent deployment is the most valuable. You don't need to do any configuration. You just deploy the agents, and it can automatically detect your infrastructure. That was the greatest feature that we saw in Dynatrace. If there is any database, it can detect it automatically and present everything to you."
"It reduces time and provides detailed info, showing problem correlation, and a single point of diagnosis."
"Support is very transparent in issues, what they need to do, and how they need to fix certain issues and problems."
"No other provider gives us log ingestion, Kubernetes/Docker monitoring, and application monitoring for NodeJS."
"By using Dynatrace Managed, we have improved customer satisfaction and have also helped internal teams and subcontractors make the application more stable."
"The most valuable features for me are the dashboard panels because they enable you to monitor multiple applications in one single site."
"There is a strong user community. There is no need to talk to the technical support, because all the questions which I have had, all the solutions were in the documentation. Or, I have been able to post a question to the user community and get an answer within a day or two."
"To get visibility from your network devices, servers, and security devices is a great feature."
"We solve issues that we previously could not since we now have the data."
"The ability to analyze huge amounts of sales data and accurate prediction of sales forecasting is the most valuable feature."
"Great platform with user-friendly interface and GUI."
"In the past we used the different application to collect logs. We used SurfWatch and VMware to do so. But, we found that the Splunk has more capacity to do more in less time. They provide a aster speed to index all the events , and this is a huge asset."
"It's very flexible. If you look from the cloud implementation it is there. Reports are made quickly. Unlike other tools, it caters to all kinds of technical information on the front very easily. There's no need to put in any technical information. You can pull on the reports very easily, take action, and notify stakeholders."
"Splunk's strongest suit is its user interface. We can integrate multiple solutions and adjust settings in the Splunk interface."
"Splunk gives my clients the ability to bring multiple, disparate types of data together, then correlate and report on them."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"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."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."
"The UI could use a little help."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"Sometimes we get incidences during the US morning when we are not at the office. If I can get the benefit of a solution, which can alert us and solve itself. It is an automation thing where we do not want to wake up late at night and work on the application."
"What needs improvement in Dynatrace is its dashboard. Creating dashboards in Dynatrace is good, but compared to Grafana, which is integrated with Broadcom DX APM, the resulting dashboard in Dynatrace isn't as clear. The Dynatrace dashboard needs to be more graphic."
"It's not really user friendly. You need to go through a certain type of training."
"We would also like to see all the good data in a single view across multiple tools, so that access to integration is critical."
"The container platform could include more value-added features."
"It is not clear what are our long-term strategy should be to upgrade (Appmon vs Dynatrace)."
"Improvements are needed in the navigation and timeframe selection when browsing problems."
"Needs support for more technologies."
"An area of improvement would be the licensing of the solution. They need a free license, which would allow faster lead times."
"Splunk needs to be able to hold more days of data. At the moment it only holds three months of data."
"Cybersecurity and infrastructure monitoring have room for improvement."
"It works as intended for us, and we are getting everything that we need out of it. If anything, its initial setup can be improved a bit."
"Spam has different plugins but by default, the logs are not organized, it shows that there are roll-ups that are out of the box. I saw many plugins that can help improve or extend Splunk's functionality but I haven't tried any of them."
"The GUI can be improved. Splunk has always suffered from having a kind of goofy UI, it needs some updating."
"There are a lot of competitive products that are doing better than what Splunk is doing on the analytics side."
"Splunk Enterprise Security can be improved by including backup network detection and response and safe management to the paid platform."
