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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
8th
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
Number of Reviews
301
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Application Analytics is 1.2%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 30.2%, down from 36.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Himanshu Sarda - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 26, 2022
Good tag and follow features and is easy to expand but is also quite expensive
We were using an ID integration, and we were monitoring and using the EPM, et cetera. AppDynamics is able to provide us with in-depth insight into the bottlenecks in the system It allows us to understand what is causing latency in the system. Using AppDynamics, we can drill down to the code on…
Sameep Agarwal. - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 23, 2023
It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query
The ingestion happens quickly, so you can run up the data costs if you use the default settings. It isn't a problem for government agencies in the Saudi market, but many of the corporations in India are small or medium-sized enterprises that cannot afford that kind of ingestion system. Splunk needs to be tweaked in JSON so you can limit what is coming from the endpoints, especially the events. One needs to filter that out so that only certain events are ingested, like login failures, Active Directory changes, password reset requests, privilege modifications, etc. Each Windows machine generates about 310 KB of information per event, but we can tweak that down to about 50 KB.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The analytics are great."
"Immediately allows you to see the relationships between the different nodes."
"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."
"The solution helps us with performance testing by enabling us to monitor applications."
"It has been stable, scalable and manageable."
"We had no issues with scalability. It was very good for us."
"It is easy to use, and easy to implement."
"They are a good partner for Google Cloud. It provides great visibility, threat detection, and proactive mitigation of risks for our mutual consumers."
"The most valuable features are the logs, which allow us to identify what happened and who interacted with the web repository."
"The speed of the search engine"
"It has virtual visualization, and other products do not."
"Splunk's visualizations make it easy for users to understand the data."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Splunk is."
"The solution is very fast and succinct."
 

Cons

"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."
"Application Analytics' performance in pure and native cloud environments could be improved."
"The user experience is quite confusing. There are too many different development stages. The UI is not very intuitive."
"Improvements can be made in the area of AI integration."
"Customization requires a few manual tweaks."
"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."
"I would like to see some cosmetic enhancements."
"Writing queries is a bit complicated sometimes."
"Stability is there, but every release has some bugs."
"The UI could be better. This is applicable to Splunk in general. I know that a lot of people who get their hands on Splunk are hesitant to use it just because they find it overwhelming. There are a lot of options."
"They can incorporate the SOAR solution within the actual product so that we do not require two different products, two different installations, and two different pricing methods. In regards to UBA, I am familiar with the UBA that existed two years ago. I am not updated about it today, but two years ago, UBA required such an amount of data that from a cost perspective, it was not worth it. When you compare it to what you get out of the box with Microsoft Sentinel without additional costs, there is no match."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive."
"This is a costly solution."
"When files are absent, troubleshooting becomes difficult, and performance issues inevitably arise."
"We'd like to have the number of devices covered under the license to be increased."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is very competitive."
"It's a very expensive product. Each of the licenses after this month for one server is around $9,000 or $10,000."
"The license fee for Application Analytics is in the range of 2.5 million over three years, with extra fees for service contingencies."
"The pricing of the solution is reasonable for what features you receive."
"The price of this solution is expensive. However, it has great features. If you want a great solution you need to pay a price matching the features."
"Splunk is really expensive compared to all the other tools on the market, including Microsoft Sentinel."
"My experience with the solution's setup cost, pricing, and licensing was really good."
"My customers have found the price of the solution to be high."
"The subscription is monthly."
"Splunk differs from other SIEM solutions by using a gigabyte-based pricing model, rather than the agent-based licenses common with its competitors."
"The tool's pricing model is great. You can choose between workloads or volume."
"As a team, we prefer the old pricing model with a perpetual license. We are still evaluating the whole subscription-based model."
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Comparison Review

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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...
 

Overview

 

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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