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."Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"The solution saves time and cost."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"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."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"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."
"The initial setup is simple, not very complex. Initial deployment takes around 10 to 15 minutes to set up the entire base for Splunk including all three tiers."
"The client site login is pretty extensible and probably cost-effective."
"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."
"Aggregation searches have reduced time and difficulty of identifying trends and conditions which need to reviewed."
"The ability to ingest different log types from many different products in our environment is most valuable."
"I like the ease with which dashboards can be created."
"It allows us to digest the information, the data, the different data streams, so we can make decisions based upon information that we receive, and it is pretty robust."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"There can be a bit of complexity around some fields during the initial setup."
"Splunk does not provide any default threat intelligence like Microsoft Sentinel, but you can integrate any third-party threat intelligence with Splunk. By default, no threat intelligence suite is there, whereas, with IBM QRadar or Microsoft Sentinel, the default feature of threat intelligence is there. It is free. If Splunk can provide a default threat intelligence suite, it would be better."
"Given the ever-increasing number of threats, I would like Splunk to update its threat signatures more frequently."
"The presence of multiple layers creates a significant challenge for monitoring across cloud environments."
"They should make data onboarding easier."
"The only improvement I am expecting is the cost of the licensing. Clients are going to other solutions just because of the cost."
"The UI can be improved. Dashboards and reports can be better in terms of graphics."
"The support and the pricing can be better"
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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