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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Evolven
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
25th
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
274
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (3rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (3rd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 1.3%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk AppDynamics is 9.6%, down from 21.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk AppDynamics9.6%
Evolven1.3%
Other89.1%
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 gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before."
"It provides visualization of risk levels."
"It definitely helps us speed up our troubleshooting."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring are you can configure the performance and see in real-time what is exactly happening with the applications. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"The product has the ability to drill down to the errors whenever we have issues."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring's most valuable feature is the ability of the out-of-the-box to update the information, provide various metrics, and possibly include custom metrics."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"AppDynamics monitors the ICT environment by just installing a Java or .NET agent and machine agent on the server, shows how all the components in the infrastructure work together to run an application, and lets you pinpoint easily where the performance issues for your application are."
"This solution gives us quite good insights that we might otherwise overlook, or it might take a really long time to debug those issues."
"It's pretty stable."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"One aspect that requires improvement is the agent. Without an agent, gathering sufficient information on applications is challenging. Additionally, the agent sometimes creates performance issues in production environments."
"I have seen many good aspects of the product and many advantages, while also identifying areas for improvement or concerns with the product."
"I haven’t rated the product higher basically because of the synthetic monitoring piece."
"Every upgrade is a challenge. A big enterprise cannot handle that many releases like that."
"The monitoring capability could be improved; it does have a monitoring capability, but it's very, very basic."
"The biggest room for improvement is related to maintenance of the solution."
"I heard it is not good. They do not provide a quick response."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"AppDynamics is one of the most expensive solutions on the market."
"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."
"You are required to purchase licenses whether you use it or not. It is not pay-as-you-use."
"The licensing cost is fairly high"
"AppDynamics is more expensive than competitors."
"The license for AppDynamics is procured by our customers."
"AppDynamics is really pricey as it requires licenses for every feature."
"The pricing for AppDynamics Server Monitoring in Africa and the Middle East is too expensive, so it's very hard to sell it to customers. If there could be different pricing or package for the region, that would be great. My company pays for the license of AppDynamics Server Monitoring on a per-agent, per-server basis. It's $700 to $1000 per server, and it's paid annually. My company is on a subscription model for the solution. On a scale of one to five, where one is expensive and five is cheap, my rating for the price of AppDynamics Server Monitoring is a two."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
23%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

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Small Business64
Midsize Enterprise37
Large Enterprise205
 

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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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