We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), and Splunk Enterprise Security 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."We're a large organization, so we appreciate AppDynamics' wide coverage. It may not work in all areas, but it has broad coverage. We can use the same dataset for different use case aspects. That is the beauty of AppDynamics. You can coordinate APM, EUM, and infrastructure through one dataset."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"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."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"It's easy to use."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
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"Splunk has facilitated the correlation of information security logs to look for incidents which could cause damage to the company's infrastructure, as well as financial losses from leaks."
"It is very simple to tweak or write a small piece of glue code to go ahead and create a new dashboard for a business unit to make near real-time decisions to focus more on other geographies when launching the product."
"The Splunk user community and forum are most valuable."
"It has reduced the time to resolution, time to investigate, and time to troubleshoot for debugging issues."
"We did not encounter any issues with scalability. It is almost seamless to add new index (storage) or search (used to analyze the data) nodes to the cluster."
"The search lookups are useful."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk is the log monitoring."
"The product has a good security posture."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"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."
"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."
"More native support for other hardware is needed because having to install various extensions and perform extra setup for different devices is really challenging, and not as easy or straightforward as it is in other products."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"They need to improve the consolidation of agents for the agent's installation process."
"It could be more stable."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It could be even more automated."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
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"We find that the maintenance process could be a lot better."
"When you get into large amounts of data, Splunk can get pretty slow. This is the same on-premise or AWS, it doesn't matter. The way that they handle large data sets could be improved."
"Splunk has a steeper learning curve, making it feel less user-friendly."
"We usually have to follow up with technical support on our open cases."
"The only thing which can be improved is that they are too subjective on whom their Splunk4Good initiative can be applied. They market it as you only need to be a nonprofit, but there is more to it."
"Cybersecurity and infrastructure monitoring have room for improvement."
"The UI can be improved. Dashboards and reports can be better in terms of graphics."
"More control with Splunk Cloud as it seems a bit limited. I used to manage an on-premise instance of Splunk Enterprise and really liked having more control over it."
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