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Evolven vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Evolven
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
24th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk AppDynamics
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
275
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (3rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (4th), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 1.4%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk AppDynamics is 9.6%, down from 19.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk AppDynamics9.6%
Evolven1.4%
Other89.0%
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

MF
Business Analyst at Swisscom
Provides visualization of risk levels. However, alerting needs improvement.
Our primary use case is operational analytics. It gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before. It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency. Provides visualization of risk levels. Alerting needs improvement. Less than one year.
Shamim Alsharif - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Engineer at TANIM CONSULTING, LLC
Real-time monitoring has improved our banking API performance and supports detailed business transaction analysis
The real-time monitoring is what we can see for anything that is needed in terms of CPU, memory, or the connections or the sessions related. It's real-time monitoring of performance of each of the components, which is what we need and use all the time. It's highly effective, I would say. Infrastructure visibility, transaction monitoring, to check the actual user experience in terms of the response time, MRT and all those things. We do the component monitoring like the API performance and the connections and all those things, but we also do the business process monitoring and business transaction monitoring.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency."
"It provides visualization of risk levels."
"It gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before."
"Application Analytics reduces the average time it takes to repair performance problems and improves cooperation between different IT departments."
"The business transactions feature has helped us stay current with the trends in traffic, and we were able to separate successful transactions from non-successful transactions, such as transactions with 200 error codes and 500 error codes, which has been very beneficial to us."
"The possibility to quickly drill down into problematic requests in combination with the drill down into all kinds of different monitoring data greatly reduced the time to analyze problems which we uncover during our load tests."
"The best feature of about Splunk AppDynamics is its interface, which allows me to see the full transaction, exactly what is happening, from where it starts to where the call is going, all the services involved in a call, and exactly the time it took from each node to each node along with the network delays."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"Technical support is the best thing with AppD."
"It is a stable solution."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"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."
"Synthetic monitoring of applications and products in a better way would help to improve the product better."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be a better product if it could support new technology, such as cloud technology. Even Dynatrace lacks support for newer technologies."
"I have seen many good aspects of the product and many advantages, while also identifying areas for improvement or concerns with the product."
"It could be more user-friendly for beginners."
"I haven’t rated it higher because of the comparison between AppDynamics and Dynatrace."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"Full-stack network monitoring in terms of switches (third-party tool integration should be enabled) should be able to monitor jitter, retransmission, retransmission timeouts, delays, window size, or other network issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"AppDynamics is an expensive solution."
"AppDynamics does not usually do monthly payments. They do it on an annual basis, at the very least."
"The license fee for Application Analytics is in the range of 2.5 million over three years, with extra fees for service contingencies."
"The licensing cost is fairly high"
"There is a license to use this solution. However, the clients pay for the licenses we are the service provider."
"Yearly payments have to be made toward the licensing costs of the solution. The solution has no additional costs apart from the licensing costs."
"The product is a bit expensive compared to other tools."
"It is a more expensive APM among the competitors, which is fine because it also does a lot more on the auto-detection and the AI side... It is not a cheap product. None of them are. The price is fair, but I could use it on more projects if they had a lower price."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
21%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Small Business64
Midsize Enterprise37
Large Enterprise206
 

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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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics Database Monitoring?
The price is not cheap, however, considering the benefits and the price ratio, I would rate it nine out of ten.
What needs improvement with AppDynamics Database Monitoring?
Based on my experience, some databases like Couchbase, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB require a little bit of enhancement as they are newer and not as widely used as other databases. The limitations are o...
 

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