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Splunk AppDynamics pros and cons

Vendor: Splunk

4.1 out of 5

264 reviews
91% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Splunk AppDynamics allows users to monitor and analyze digital interactions, providing transaction snapshots and detailed performance insights. It excels in real-time user experience tracking and proactive monitoring to enhance performance. However, frequent SaaS downtimes, scalability limitations, a mid-range pricing structure with complex installation, and insufficient documentation hinder its usability. Addressing these issues could improve its competitive edge in application performance management.

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PROS

Transaction snapshots in Splunk AppDynamics allow users to pinpoint where applications break in the call stack and how long it takes to resolve issues.

Splunk AppDynamics offers the capability for users to monitor end-user interactions and conversion paths, helping in understanding customer behavior on websites and applications.

AppDynamics enables real-time monitoring and visual representation of data, enhancing the ability to track and analyze user experiences and digital interactions.

Splunk AppDynamics supports proactive monitoring and alerting, helping users to quickly identify and resolve issues before they negatively affect performance.

The infrastructure and database monitoring features in Splunk AppDynamics offer detailed insights into performance issues, assisting in the identification and resolution of problems quickly.

CONS

Splunk AppDynamics experiences frequent downtimes in the SaaS environment without adequate feedback.

Scalability issues arise with Splunk AppDynamics supporting fewer agents compared to competitors.

Pricing is mid-range, but setup, licensing, and integration could be more straightforward and cost-effective.

Installation and configuration are complex, requiring specialized knowledge and manual tweaks.

Documentation and training materials require improvement, hindering ease of use.

Splunk AppDynamics Pros review quotes

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Vice President - Operations & Client Support at Scicom Infrastructure Services

Sep 9, 2024

Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality.

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Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Aug 31, 2016

After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues.

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Senior Performance Engineer Consultant with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 8, 2016

End-user monitoring (web and mobile)

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Production Operations Systems Admininistrator III at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 21, 2017

Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift.

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Technical Lead | Manager,Software Engineering at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 6, 2016

I think the performance and interface are the most important features.

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DBA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 26, 2017

Before we moved the code to AppDynamics, we had to compare the agile process and also had to make sure that they're following the standards.

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Systems Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 1, 2016

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.

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Sr. Enterprise Network Planner at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 9, 2016

It's made it easier to collaborate across teams; be able to have the same data immediately in front of you just by sharing a URL.

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Director of Information Systems at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 15, 2016

It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower.

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Enterprise Platform Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 7, 2016

The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked.

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Splunk AppDynamics Cons review quotes

SR

Vice President - Operations & Client Support at Scicom Infrastructure Services

Sep 9, 2024

Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations

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Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Aug 31, 2016

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.

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Senior Performance Engineer Consultant with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 8, 2016

SQL statement monitoring

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Production Operations Systems Admininistrator III at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 21, 2017

I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management.

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Technical Lead | Manager,Software Engineering at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 6, 2016

Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve.

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DBA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 26, 2017

It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics.

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Systems Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 1, 2016

We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world.

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Sr. Enterprise Network Planner at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 9, 2016

It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end.

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Director of Information Systems at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 15, 2016

The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network.

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Enterprise Platform Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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