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."We had no issues with scalability. It was very good for us."
"Immediately allows you to see the relationships between the different nodes."
"Application Analytics' most valuable features are the real-user monitoring and the agents installed in the software stack on the application server."
"The analytics are great."
"Provides good overall application performance and transaction errors."
"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."
"It's pretty stable."
"It has helped us look at modern technology, as well as penetrate our legacy systems, to see where the bottlenecks are."
"The correlation search functions that generate all the notables are valuable. That can get pretty complicated, and it handles that pretty well."
"The scalability of the solution is amazing because it can collect a lot of data and you can have your own structure to monitor this data."
"The best part of Splunk Enterprise Security is its customizable settings."
"Splunk's interface is user-friendly, and it has apps and add-ons for most applications. We can easily normalize the data to make it readable and understand the logs. We easily get all the field extractions and enrichment done by using the apps and add-ons. This helps us understand the application logs because the raw data is useless unless we extract some useful information from it. These add-ons make it so much easier."
"This is a straightforward solution, easy to configure."
"Splunk has significantly helped with aggregation and correlation of critical logs. Not having to grep on each individual server has made everyone more efficient."
"I have also been able to take advantage of some of the more complex statistical capabilities when analyzing logs."
"Customization requires a few manual tweaks."
"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."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The user experience is quite confusing. There are too many different development stages. The UI is not very intuitive."
"Application Analytics' performance in pure and native cloud environments could be improved."
"This is an expensive solution."
"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."
"It needs a better way to export dynamic views without requiring a ton of code and user/pw."
"The UI can be improved. Dashboards and reports can be better in terms of graphics."
"There are limitations with Splunk not detecting all user activity, especially on mainframes and network devices."
"The initial setup is complex, but this is necessary. We needed to take into consideration how to direct log files from thousands of machines to Splunk, and how to ingest those files."
"We usually have to follow up with technical support on our open cases."
"I love the solution, but I would like to see more accessibility to the machine-learning capabilities that are sprinkled around Splunk."
"Splunk can be an expensive solution. Technical support could be improved as well."
"In terms of the interface, it could include some improvements for the look and feel."
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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 240 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, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our AppDynamics Application Analytics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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