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PROS

Splunk AppDynamics enhances problem detection and resolution through real-time monitoring, allowing quick identification of root causes.
It provides comprehensive insights into application performance, enabling users to optimize code and infrastructure for improved efficiency.
The tool offers powerful alerting capabilities that help prevent potential issues by monitoring key business transactions.
Splunk AppDynamics supports a wide range of third-party applications and infrastructure, ensuring scalability across complex environments.
Users appreciate its ability to provide detailed analytics, facilitating informed decision-making regarding performance improvements and resource optimization.

CONS

AppDynamics needs additional support for NextGen mobile platforms and more types of agents for the mainframe world.
Network performance monitoring is missing, and there's a need for better SQL statement monitoring and out-of-the-box visual reporting for management use.
Scalability issues exist; AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents but performance deteriorated beyond that point.
AppDynamics lacks complete integration with cloud technology, focusing on an on-premise approach which isn't a fit for emerging enterprises.
Agent management and deployment within AppDynamics require simplification, and the system can be challenging to configure without specialized skills.
 

Splunk AppDynamics Pros review quotes

SeniorSofcae - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
reviewer1555236 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 19, 2021
The SAP monitoring element is very helpful.
CanselÖzcan - PeerSpot reviewer
May 30, 2024
It has been stable, scalable and manageable.
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it_user560520 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
it_user560499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 2, 2017
The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application
it_user560490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 7, 2016
The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked.
it_user560529 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Chandan-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 13, 2023
Technical support is helpful.
KM
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.
EG
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.
 

Splunk AppDynamics Cons review quotes

SeniorSofcae - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
reviewer1555236 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
CanselÖzcan - PeerSpot reviewer
May 30, 2024
I would like to see some cosmetic enhancements.
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it_user560499 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
it_user560490 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Chandan-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
KM
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.
EG
Apr 23, 2025
The discovery is acceptable, however, users need to configure many things if they want good discovery.
Anurag-Dixit - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
reviewer1326171 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 8, 2020
Customization requires a few manual tweaks.