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Splunk AppDynamics pros and cons

Vendor: Splunk

4.1 out of 5

244 reviews
91% willing to recommend

6,674 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Splunk AppDynamics delivers comprehensive monitoring via a unified platform, enhancing real-user experience with real-time insights and efficient root cause analysis, while monitoring large environments with minimal overhead. Despite its strengths, it lacks cloud integration, faces scalability issues beyond 3,000 agents, and is costly. Initial setup is complex, requiring expertise, and user access management needs improvement, making it potentially unsuitable for emerging enterprises seeking ease and affordability.

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PROS

AppDynamics enhances collaboration by providing shared access to data, enabling efficient communication across teams.

The root cause analysis feature quickly identifies issues, reducing resolution time and resource allocation.

Auto-discovery and application topology features improve performance monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities.

Real-user monitoring and end-user experience insights offer valuable information for optimizing business processes.

Business iQ analytics provide real-time insights, helping to improve application performance pre- and post-release.

CONS

Splunk AppDynamics lacks in cloud integration and monitoring capabilities, primarily focusing on on-premise environments which limits its appeal to newer, cloud-based businesses.

Customers have expressed concerns over the high cost of Splunk AppDynamics, suggesting that its pricing is not competitive compared to other offerings in the market.

Scalability issues with Splunk AppDynamics have been noted, with performance deterioration beyond a certain number of agents, contrasting unfavorably with competitors.

Splunk AppDynamics's agent-based architecture adds complexity and can lead to performance problems in production environments, raising calls for more simplified or agentless deployment alternatives.

Users highlight a lack of comprehensive visibility in infrastructure monitoring and database server metrics, impacting efficient system performance analysis.

Splunk AppDynamics Pros review quotes

Senior Solutions Architect at CloudOps

Jan 13, 2019

In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work.

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reviewer1555236

IT Operations Executive at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 19, 2021

The SAP monitoring element is very helpful.

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TechOPS Division Manager at Onotio Teknoloji

May 30, 2024

It has been stable, scalable and manageable.

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Operations Project Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Dec 24, 2016

It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly.

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Application Support Lead at ASRC Federal Data Solutions

Jan 2, 2017

The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application

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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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Sr. App Analytics DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 14, 2016

That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace.

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Director for the End-User Performance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 13, 2023

Technical support is helpful.

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Solution Architect at Cisco

Sep 11, 2023

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I don't see any problems in the solution...The solution's technical support was good.

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Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 8, 2020

Immediately allows you to see the relationships between the different nodes.

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Senior Solutions Architect at CloudOps

Jan 13, 2019

I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need.

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IT Operations Executive at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 19, 2021

The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound.

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TechOPS Division Manager at Onotio Teknoloji

May 30, 2024

I would like to see some cosmetic enhancements.

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Application Support Lead at ASRC Federal Data Solutions

Jan 2, 2017

I think I would like to see a better way to deploy and upgrade the machine agents that we use. Currently, we have to use SCCM, and that might just be our environment with the customer.

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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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Director for the End-User Performance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 13, 2023

If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful.

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Solution Architect at Cisco

Sep 11, 2023

I could not find a user-friendly interface for querying, and analytics sometimes gives the wrong results...I feel that analytics could have been better in searching and running the analytical queries.

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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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Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 8, 2020

Customization requires a few manual tweaks.

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Responsable Commercial at Zen Networks

Jun 22, 2022

If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool.

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Product Categories

Product Categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

IT Operations Analytics

Container Monitoring

Popular Comparisons

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