We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Splunk Enterprise Security 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 in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"The visibility is amazing with easy dashboard creation."
"Support is quick and competent."
"Its compatibility with other SIEMS is very useful."
"Ease of correlation, creating correlation searches are easy and you can combine multiple sources with little effort"
"It helps streamline troubleshooting and log analysis."
"The correlation searches (properly configured) populate the Incident Management dashboard and provide me a quick birds-eye view of my most important concerns."
"It's basically one of the best SIEM products on the market."
"The Splunk user community and forum are most valuable."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"When you have high stress of visits I do not know if you are more stress because of the amount of visits or because you have to wait eternal 60 seconds to find out it things are going well or you already have mess."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"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."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"Splunk Enterprise Security has not helped reduce our alert volume."
"The product was difficult to back up the first time."
"It could be more user friendly, in terms of the end-user experience."
"The support that is included with the standard licensing fee is very bad."
"The prices are complicated as we operate in a small third-world country."
"Splunk could have more built-in use case presets that customers can build on and customize."
"I feel the solution to be too slow."
"The price of the solution could be cheaper."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 227 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. 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 Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm SIEM. See our AppDynamics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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