We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"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."
"Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us... Most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We have highly scalable systems and AppDynamics will help us monitor our load on-prem. Our systems range from simple to the most complex and it gives us the visibility across transactions, in one dashboard."
"After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"Internal tracking is helpful because we do not like to deal with multiple ticketing systems, and I am not a fan of ServiceNow. We are able to keep everything internal and utilize Enterprise Security."
"In the past we used the different application to collect logs. We used SurfWatch and VMware to do so. But, we found that the Splunk has more capacity to do more in less time. They provide a aster speed to index all the events , and this is a huge asset."
"Splunk allows us to customize processing and dashboards, which helps us take care of our customers' needs."
"The fact that Splunk is a platform and not just a SIEM solution is a key benefit."
"Splunk's advantage is its search capability. Its search is notably faster. With Splunk, I can search easily on keywords. That is great."
"I have found the installation can be of medium difficulty to very complex depending on the use case."
"What I really like is that even if you have already collected the data, you can extract fields and can build searches."
"You can integrate Splunk with third-party security automation solutions and set rules for automatic response."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"This solution is expensive."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"Writing queries is a bit complicated sometimes."
"Adding custom visualization in Splunk has been improved over the years but can still be made better by integrating more and more JavaScript visualization sources."
"Splunk is not very user-friendly. It has a complex architecture in comparison to other solutions on the market."
"There is improvement needed when importing from some types of data sources."
"The GUI could be improved to include some of the capabilities that other BI solutions have. The layout is a little restrictive where you can’t resize all the panels to exactly how you would like them without tweaking some XML code."
"Cybersecurity and infrastructure monitoring have room for improvement."
"The GUI can be improved. Splunk has always suffered from having a kind of goofy UI, it needs some updating."
"While there aren't any major areas where the solution has to be improved, there are certain integrations that are still not available. I would specifically like to see legacy applications integrated."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 240 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and LogRhythm SIEM. See our AppDynamics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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