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Nastel AutoPilot [EOL] vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 23, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Nastel AutoPilot [EOL]
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk AppDynamics
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
268
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (3rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (6th), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user226614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Head of Performance and Service Metrics at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
You can easily scale it for high message rates, but it's primarily a flow-monitoring tool rather than an APM.
Autopilot is a middleware-centric business transaction monitoring tool that includes a Complex Event Processor (CEP) for transaction data. Architecture AutoPilot Probes are lightweight performance measurement and monitoring tools for live applications that are executed at defined points within the…
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

"Very simple to use and is a very useful tool."
"Flexible environment"
"Nastel is a world-class company that has partnership amongst other positive qualities embedded into its cultural fiber."
"You can easily scale it for high message rates."
"After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again."
"Technical support is excellent; they are very responsive and technically intelligent."
"What I like most about AppDynamics Server Monitoring is that it's easy to manipulate and easy to implement. All solutions have the same features, but what sets AppDynamics Server Monitoring apart is that it's really quick to implement. AppDynamics Server Monitoring has a great interface. As a developer, it doesn't matter whether it's SolarWinds, Dynatrace, or any APM you're using, but it would matter to the customer. A product must be easy to manipulate or use, for example, AppDynamics Server Monitoring, for the customer, but for developers like my team, there's no pressure, even if a solution requires coding."
"We had no issues with scalability, and it was very good for us."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring's dashboarding is its best feature."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find."
 

Cons

"The GUI is quite basic and middleware-centric."
"Needs to quickly implement support for all variety of servers."
"Documentation"
"Quality Assurance testing for new releases need to be more thorough"
"The solution is available at an inflated cost"
"Technical support hasn't been too impressive so we ended up having to resolve our own issues."
"The way the agentless monitoring and agent monitoring get used is to be decided by the user, but there is no clarification on the setup phase or on how and why to use the aforementioned options."
"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."
"I think a little more control over which transactions get that depth attached to them would be good."
"Their technical support isn't great. The geographical distance and the response time it takes to respond to emails from the technical team is very slow."
"The limitations are often due to the vendors not supplying all the profiling features to AppDynamics."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We buy the platform's yearly subscription."
"I rate AppDynamics Mobile Real-User Monitoring's pricing as seven out of ten. Mobile monitoring is paid based on the number of instances utilizing the mobile monitoring service, which increases as the scale grows. Consequently, your mobile user count can proportionally surpass all other applications."
"It's a very expensive product. Each of the licenses after this month for one server is around $9,000 or $10,000."
"We are looking forward to purchasing the solution on the AWS Marketplace."
"Purchasing the product through the AWS Marketplace was good."
"It is expensive. However, our time to recover has been reduced, and this product has helped recuperate costs and provided us with ROI."
"AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an expensive solution."
"AppDynamics is priced on the higher side."
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Financial Services Firm
27%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

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Midsize Enterprise37
Large Enterprise202
 

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I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten. The solution is highly expensive. Our company pays for the solution on a yearly basis, if we don't add new modules or features to the license, we need ...
What needs improvement with AppDynamics?
The solution is available at an inflated cost.
 

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