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."The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"The ability to check parameters for microservice applications is most valuable. It is important for me. I can manually create new business transactions for applications and individually monitor business transactions. I can also use a lot of extensions. It has a lot of extensions to monitor other third-party applications, such as NoSQL applications, memory cache applications, Kafka applications, and Couchbase applications. It is very useful. We are also using the end-user monitoring site to follow all end-user activities. It is important for us to check the errors on the customer site."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement...It is a very stable solution."
"Internal tracking is helpful because we do not like to deal with multiple ticketing systems, and I am not a fan of ServiceNow. We are able to keep everything internal and utilize Enterprise Security."
"The product provides visibility and enables us to correlate data and generate alerts."
"I like the ease with which dashboards can be created."
"Visualizations helped the organisation with a better understanding of its KPIs."
"Its usability is the best part. It is easy for our developers to use if they want to search their logs, etc."
"The Splunk user community and forum are most valuable."
"There are lots of free learning materials on their website."
"Integrity with many vendors: This simplifies the implementation and integration with different devices"
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The integration part in AppDynamics with other systems is an area with a little difficulty, especially when it comes to the configuration area. The integration of AppDynamics with other products takes a lot of time."
"We had an instance when Splunk failed and it took us a couple of days to recover."
"The solution should also have more advanced capabilities in comparison with QRadar, which offers Watson."
"While Splunk Enterprise Security offers valuable features, its cost is high and could be more competitive."
"It can be tough to determine if you are getting all of the value out of your investment at times."
"Splunk does not build apps. They only go back and validate the apps that somebody has already built. They should have remote consulting support. They have a wonderful solution. They have 24/7 security. Nobody needs to depend on any third party and will therefore just buy Splunk on the cloud."
"Integrating tools and creating use cases could be easier. It's hard for a junior security engineer with only a couple of years of experience to write use cases. They can do it, but it's much easier in a solution like IBM QRadar. Setting conditions is like a multiple-choice type of thing. It's a more user-friendly process."
"Splunk should have more regional data centers in the Middle East."
"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."
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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