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 features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"Splunk has machine learning which is a valuable feature."
"The solution is the market leader."
"The flexibility of the solution is quite good."
"The most valuable features of Splunk Enterprise Security are its high-performance data collection, flexible query language, and its versatility across the organization."
"The breadth of the data sources that Splunk can ingest data from is broad and deep and it does an exemplary job at handling structured data."
"Splunk's advantage is its search capability. Its search is notably faster. With Splunk, I can search easily on keywords. That is great."
"The dashboard and reporting are very good... It provides very good visibility in a hybrid cloud environment, and you can build custom utilization APIs using Splunk."
"I really like the user interface and how it works."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"One issue is that we are getting a lot of false positives. We are trying to reduce them by customizing the default rules, changing thresholds, and using white-listing and black-listing. It's getting better and better as a result. But they need to build components that would reduce the false positives."
"It needs more thoroughly tested releases. Every new big version (6, 7, etc.) has had so many bugs that it makes me wary of customers upgrading right away."
"Delays in responses from the technical team can pose challenges for both vendors and clients, especially considering that Splunk applications and machine solutions are critical assets."
"We'd like to have the number of devices covered under the license to be increased."
"We had an instance when Splunk failed and it took us a couple of days to recover."
"The level of scalability depends on the license you have. You can expand or reduce it based on the environment. It does cost more money to scale, however."
"Splunk could enhance its services by providing more comprehensive professional assistance aimed at optimizing our investment."
"It will be helpful for customers if they can create some real-world cases, and we can find a case study to align with. I know that Splunk has tremendous potential. We only include a tiny piece of it. There is a lot of stuff that we need to learn. If Splunk can provide more real-time examples, that will be helpful for customers."
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 221 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, Elastic Security and LogRhythm SIEM. See our AppDynamics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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