We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Application Analytics and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Operations Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Provides good overall application performance and transaction errors."
"We had no issues with scalability. It was very good for us."
"All the metrics are baselines in networks, infrastructure, application, and user experience. AppDynamics offers its own query language. It is called ADQL. You can write code of any kind to do queries and analysis and you can use those within the reporting or within other research."
"Immediately allows you to see the relationships between the different nodes."
"It's pretty stable."
"The analytics are great."
"Application Analytics' most valuable features are the real-user monitoring and the agents installed in the software stack on the application server."
"It helps streamline troubleshooting and log analysis."
"The solution helped reduce our alert volume."
"The scalability is good."
"I have not seen any outages in the product in the past two years that it has been running in our company, so I think it is good when it comes to the stability part."
"The most valuable feature is the incident dashboard, and the extensive use of correlation searches, which isn't available with a standard Splunk search package. This feature is important to me because it enables SOC analysts to do their job more efficiently and be able to investigate or mediate incidents at a faster pace."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk is the management and built-in workflows."
"I haven't had the chance to properly sink my teeth into Enterprise Security but so far I like that they added the MITRE ATT&CK features."
"Splunk has helped improve our company's resilience level."
"Application Analytics' performance in pure and native cloud environments could be improved."
"This feature needs to be properly described to a client, and then the client needs to have a use case. There are some clients which do not need it and some clients who do. It is not for everyone and is dependant on their use case."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The user experience is quite confusing. There are too many different development stages. The UI is not very intuitive."
"Customization requires a few manual tweaks."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The challenge in the installation is that you have to configure a lot of things manually. The way you install and configure it is not straightforward."
"Not even Splunk's support guy, who came to our firm, could help with defining proper role management."
"Splunk is not very user-friendly. It has a complex architecture in comparison to other solutions on the market."
"The Web Application Firewall will send you too much information because it's more dedicated to security than a normal firewall."
"I think the machine learning should be emphasized. Now, it's really important to analyze Big Data, data mining. A SIEM solution, like Splunk, needs an improved data mining solution, artificial intelligence."
"Splunk is query-based, which is not the case with most cybersecurity tools. It is based on search queries and can be difficult to use. It would be good if they can make it easier to understand how to create search queries. They can improve the knowledge base for better understanding. To create your dashboard, you need to have a search query. We have multiple firewalls in our company, and we need a dashboard for them. It would be helpful if a default firewall dashboard is included in Splunk to make monitoring easier. If a dashboard is available for a security device, the operation part will be more efficient. We won't have to follow a manual process for this."
"The configuration could be better."
"It would be nice if Splunk reduced the cost of training. Their training sessions are way too costly."
"There are limitations with Splunk not detecting all user activity, especially on mainframes and network devices."
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AppDynamics Application Analytics is ranked 10th in IT Operations Analytics with 11 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in IT Operations Analytics with 246 reviews. AppDynamics Application Analytics is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Application Analytics writes "Good tag and follow features and is easy to expand but is also quite expensive". 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 Application Analytics is most compared with , whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Dynatrace, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our AppDynamics Application Analytics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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