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Splunk AppDynamics pros and cons

Vendor: Splunk

4.1 out of 5

253 reviews
91% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Splunk AppDynamics offers extensive end-user monitoring, tracking user interactions and conversion paths with comprehensive visibility across application transactions, enhancing server management via proactive alerting. Real-time insights enable quick issue resolution, accommodating complex environments with high transaction volumes. However, improved network performance monitoring, enhanced cloud integration, and better support for Kubernetes are needed. Additionally, simplifying the agent installation process and scalability beyond 3,000 agents are crucial to avoid performance issues.

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PROS

Splunk AppDynamics offers robust root cause analysis by providing transaction snapshots and pinpointing issues in the call stack to resolve application problems quickly.

Its real user monitoring feature helps companies evaluate customer experiences, especially valuable for eCommerce companies to track customer behavior and performance issues.

The business iQ analytics provide valuable insights, allowing organizations to compare performance before and after releases and optimize their code quality.

AppDynamics allows for broad scalability and effective monitoring by offering insights across various transactions, supporting a wide range of technologies with built-in extensions for third-party applications.

Its proactive monitoring and alerting capabilities enhance server management tasks, providing a single view for troubleshooting and performance testing.

CONS

Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms needs to be prioritized, and there is a need for improved network performance monitoring.

Scalability is an issue, especially concerning large environments and flexibility in configuration on the backend.

The agents are heavy and can consume more resources than required, impacting performance.

Lack of comprehensive documentation makes integration and installation challenging.

Price and licensing are costly and need to be more competitive.

Splunk AppDynamics Pros review quotes

Senior Solutions Architect at CloudOps

Jan 13, 2019

In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work.

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reviewer1555236

IT Operations Executive at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 19, 2021

The SAP monitoring element is very helpful.

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TechOPS Division Manager at Onotio Teknoloji

May 30, 2024

It has been stable, scalable and manageable.

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Operations Project Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Dec 24, 2016

It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly.

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Application Support Lead at ASRC Federal Data Solutions

Jan 2, 2017

The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application

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Enterprise Platform Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 7, 2016

The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked.

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Sr. App Analytics DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 14, 2016

That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace.

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Director for the End-User Performance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 13, 2023

Technical support is helpful.

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Konstantinos Michailidis

Digital Performance Tester at Amdocs

Jun 12, 2025

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.

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Eduardo Gallardo

Director of Technical Part at NOS SGPS

Apr 23, 2025

Users can configure business sections in their environment, and it's possible for customers to configure different sources for the name of the class, the name of the method, or the name of the web service, which is very interesting.

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Senior Solutions Architect at CloudOps

Jan 13, 2019

I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need.

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IT Operations Executive at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 19, 2021

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.

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TechOPS Division Manager at Onotio Teknoloji

May 30, 2024

I would like to see some cosmetic enhancements.

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Application Support Lead at ASRC Federal Data Solutions

Jan 2, 2017

I think I would like to see a better way to deploy and upgrade the machine agents that we use. Currently, we have to use SCCM, and that might just be our environment with the customer.

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Enterprise Platform Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 7, 2016

I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area.

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Director for the End-User Performance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 13, 2023

If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful.

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Konstantinos Michailidis

Digital Performance Tester at Amdocs

Jun 12, 2025

If it could have a sub-tool for monitoring Apache Kafka logs, it would save me even more time. There are ways to do it now, but a direct way would be faster and better.

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Eduardo Gallardo

Director of Technical Part at NOS SGPS

Apr 23, 2025

The discovery is acceptable, however, users need to configure many things if they want good discovery.

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Solution Architect at Cisco

Sep 11, 2023

I could not find a user-friendly interface for querying, and analytics sometimes gives the wrong results...I feel that analytics could have been better in searching and running the analytical queries.

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reviewer1326171

Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 8, 2020

Customization requires a few manual tweaks.

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