We performed a comparison between BigPanda and Splunk APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."One of the most valuable features of BigPanda is its user-friendly interface."
"The solution is user-friendly and has good performance and certification."
"Alert aggregation was the primary requirement. BigPanda pulls all this together into a single UI for us, allowing us to see related alerts grouped together into an incident, and enables us to easily create a JIRA ticket and Slack channel to manage an issue."
"The best of a bad lot was the error message deduping."
"The main thing that we like about BigPanda is the user interface."
"The most valuable features of BigPanda are the API integration was good. It enables us to do faster onboarding."
"Easy integration - We've had challenges in the past integrating all of our various monitoring sources and tools into one central system. BigPanda, with the integrations that it already has, as well as offering webhook/REST API, has made it very easy for us to plug everything in."
"We have also made extensive use of the outbound integrations to ticketing systems (JIRA) and collaboration tools (Slack). The main driver for us has been getting all alerting into a single UI and enabling us to streamline our incident management process."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"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 is stable and reliable."
"Lacks sufficient dashboard features."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"The usability needs to improve, because it is a pure code environment."
"BigPanda can improve the correlations. We didn't see any big value. It is still good at the same event deduplication, event processing, and ticket creation, but I was more looking at event analysis and event correlation. In that area, it is still no big difference between the other solutions on the market. All of them, are in the same immature stage."
"BigPanda could improve by syncing its threshold settings with Dynatrace to align with users' familiarity."
"Analytics is an area for improvement, being able to break down the actions that are being taken by users of BigPanda, as well as the auto-magical work that is being done by BigPanda."
"The observability can be enriched with regards to infrastructure and the application-integrated environment. The dashboard and reports could be improved."
"The UI for this solution could be improved. It is very hard to find what you are looking for."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"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 should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"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."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
BigPanda is ranked 43rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 12 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. BigPanda is rated 7.2, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BigPanda writes "Offers comprehensive alert monitoring and a user-friendly interface but requires manual validation to provide accurate alerts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". BigPanda is most compared with ServiceNow, Moogsoft, PagerDuty Operations Cloud, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Observe.
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