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AppDynamics Application Analytics vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 29, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Application Ana...
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
301
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Application Analytics is 1.4%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 28.8%, down from 35.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Himanshu Sarda - PeerSpot reviewer
Good tag and follow features and is easy to expand but is also quite expensive
Before beginning, a new user should take time to understand the product. They need to analyze a few options and see which best fits their use case and go with that. There are many on the market to look at, including DynaRisk and DataDog. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
Avinash Gopu. - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good visibility into multiple environments, significantly reduces our alert volume, and speeds up our security investigations
There are limitations with Splunk not detecting all user activity, especially on mainframes and network devices. This is because Splunk relies on agents, which cannot access certain workstations. In these cases, we have to rely on application data. For example, with mainframes, manual reports are generated and sent to Splunk, limiting visibility to what's manually reported. This lack of automation for specific platforms needs improvement from Splunk. Additionally, API access is limited for other applications that rely on API calls and requests. This requires heavy customization on Splunk's end. These are the main challenges we've encountered. Monitoring multiple cloud platforms, like Azure, GCP, and AWS, with Splunk Enterprise Security presents some challenges. While Splunk provides different connectors for each provider, consolidating data from two domains across distinct cloud environments can be complex. However, leveraging pre-built templates and Splunk's data collation capabilities can help overcome these hurdles. Despite initial difficulties, I believe Splunk can effectively address this task, earning it an eight out of ten rating for its multi-cloud monitoring capabilities. While Splunk Enterprise Security offers insider threat detection capabilities, its effectiveness could be enhanced by integrating with additional tools, such as endpoint security solutions. This integrated approach is particularly crucial for financial institutions, which often require dedicated endpoint security teams. While using multiple tools is valuable, further improvements within Splunk itself are also necessary. Considering both external integration and internal development, I would rate its current insider threat detection capabilities as three out of ten. Threat detection is where Splunk falls behind. While it offers tools, other use cases require additional work. PAM is an enterprise tool that centralizes information about users, servers, and everything else. It needs real-time monitoring, which I haven't seen in any of the companies I've worked for. They only rely on Splunk for alerting, but real-time monitoring should be handled by the endpoint security team's tools. This means there's no detection or analysis at the machine or endpoint level. Additionally, threat analysis reporting is also absent.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Application Analytics' most valuable features are the real-user monitoring and the agents installed in the software stack on the application server."
"Provides good overall application performance and transaction errors."
"We had no issues with scalability. It was very good for us."
"It has been stable, scalable and manageable."
"The analytics are great."
"It's pretty stable."
"Immediately allows you to see the relationships between the different nodes."
"The solution helps us with performance testing by enabling us to monitor applications."
"I like Splunk's data aggregation and search capabilities."
"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."
"It provides a lot of analytics with the underlying AI engine, and it is a lot easier than other solutions. There are some products that do automated AI-based detection and drawing up charts, but for network monitoring and all of the monitoring aspects, it is quite a nice tool. It is very convenient for business users because they get more or less a lot of data readily available. If you're familiar with the Splunk query language, you can pretty much do whatever you want."
"It is a one stop shop as a full monitoring and alerting solution for operations and application analysis for most of our back-end systems."
"The ability to rapidly diagnose problems in production and non-production, across hundreds of log files, is the most valuable feature."
"The user interface is excellent, and since I'm using Splunk as a power user, it's easy to create dashboards."
"The solution's most valuable features are the granularity and analysis of the logs."
"The connections to the database are very good and updating the data files is simple to do. The dashboards are useful and user-friendly."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"Customization requires a few manual tweaks."
"Application Analytics' performance in pure and native cloud environments could be improved."
"Improvements can be made in the area of AI integration."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I would like to see some cosmetic enhancements."
"Stability is there, but every release has some bugs."
"Splunk Enterprise Security could improve in automation, flexibility, and providing more content out of the box."
"It needs integration with a configuration management solution."
"Resource usage can probably be described as an area with shortcomings in the product where improvements are required."
"It is a hugely complicated product."
"The integration could be a bit better. They charge for certain integrations."
"The use cases provided by Splunk are a good starting point, but could cover many additional topics to ensure that a smaller or less experienced shop might maximize the value of an ES deployment."
"The solution has a high learning curve for users. It's a little complicated when you're trying to figure out all the features and what they do."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license fee for Application Analytics is in the range of 2.5 million over three years, with extra fees for service contingencies."
"It's a very expensive product. Each of the licenses after this month for one server is around $9,000 or $10,000."
"The pricing is very competitive."
"The pricing of the solution is reasonable for what features you receive."
"Unlike other security tools, Splunk provides a fixed amount of gigabytes per day, and we are required to pay for any additional usage beyond that limit, in addition to our monthly cost."
"I believe there is room for improvement in reducing costs, particularly in the financial aspect, as Splunk tends to be pricier compared to other options."
"Our customers often complain that the price of Splunk is too high."
"The price is comparable."
"It's definitely worth it."
"I have no opinion on pricing."
"Splunk is definitely not a cheap solution. It is an expensive product."
"It would be nice if the pricing were cheaper. However, we did purchase it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics Application Analytics?
The pricing is very competitive because the prices depend on the customer and customer priority. Based on my knowledge, if I can correlate the business effect and business opportunity to their pric...
What needs improvement with AppDynamics Application Analytics?
AppDynamics and the other APM products are really, really much further than other products. So, with this perspective, there are some minor enhancements that can be made, but for the major sites, t...
What is your primary use case for AppDynamics Application Analytics?
For business purposes, the analytics side is a very unique part of the APM solution. There are lots of different APM products in this ecosystem, but other than AppDynamics, there is no business ins...
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
 

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Sample Customers

Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia
Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
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