We performed a comparison between Splunk APM and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Splunk APM is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 41st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Splunk APM is rated 8.2, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Instana Infrastructure Monitoring, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Prometheus, Chronosphere and Sentry.
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