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Splunk AppDynamics pros and cons

Vendor: Splunk

4.1 out of 5

246 reviews
91% willing to recommend

6,443 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Splunk AppDynamics enhances issue resolution and reduces manpower by offering valuable insights into application architecture through its flow map and end-user monitoring, aiding eCommerce companies in evaluating customer experiences. While Business iQ provides real-time analytics, the product has complexities in installation and configuration. Pricing is high, cloud integration requires enhancements, agent issues in production may arise, and it lacks complete MELT framework support, impacting its competitiveness in the observability domain.

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PROS

Splunk AppDynamics enhances issue resolution speed and reduces manpower requirements by efficiently identifying root causes.

It provides real-time monitoring of end-user experiences and business processes across complex systems.

AppDynamics aids in proactive problem detection through comprehensive transaction snapshots and alerting features.

It offers scalability and is capable of monitoring billions of transactions through sampling.

AppDynamics supports broad technology integrations, making it valuable for database and server monitoring.

CONS

Splunk AppDynamics lacks strong scalability with large environments, experiencing performance issues as the number of agents increases.

The integration with cloud services is pending, and a more unified platform is desired, especially for emerging enterprises moving to the cloud.

The deployment and configuration process is complex and requires specialized knowledge, posing challenges for average users.

Agent-based monitoring creates performance issues, especially in production environments, and an agentless alternative is needed.

Splunk AppDynamics has limitations in supporting new technologies like Kubernetes and full infrastructure monitoring, impacting its competitiveness in the market.

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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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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Solution Architect at Cisco

Sep 11, 2023

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I don't see any problems in the solution...The solution's technical support was good.

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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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reviewer1555236

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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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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Systems Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 1, 2016

We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world.

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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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