AppDynamics vs. Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

AppDynamics is well suited to large IT organizations ie telcos where there is legacy combined with modern systems ie containerized environments and cloud deployments, mobile, web as well as onprem. AppDynamics can follow the transactions into all of these areas and provide a single view on the health of the systems.

One area in which Splunk Application Performance Monitoring was able to help our organization was when we transitioned one of our applications to the cloud. It allowed our team to understand how different factors impacted our application once it was moved to the cloud. This visibility gave us some incite on changes that were required in order to make our application perform better.

Incentivized

• you can easily identify where there is a problem in the code at the time of error.
• With Network Visibility, you can see how much bandwidth your applications are using between nodes.
• You can easily detect SQL statements or stored procedures that consume most of the system resources and get statistical data.

Incentivized

• Splunk Application Performance Monitoring integrated all layers of traffic and logs and gave a single panel of troubleshooting
• Splunk Application Performance Monitoring help a lot to address layer 7 (Application layer) of network traffics

Incentivized

• Data Privacy is the most concerning thing with AppDynamics and the SSO authentication is very limited
• During load testing the graph output is not as expected and delayed
• Sometime Server details in the portal is missing in real time, which can indeed cause issue in long term and during performance tracking

Incentivized

• Sometimes the OS process takes lots of CPU and Memory. When we have to restart that Splunk process on those local hosts
• More user friendly Web interface will be nice to have
• a PDF format option will be good

Incentivized

its working for us, we are familiar and comfortable with the tool and its proven valuable/indispensable in helping evaluate our code.

Incentivized

Splunk is a great tool for log mining. It is less time-consuming and easy to use. It provides high security, it has customisable dashboards. Furthermore, it acts as a search head, and it gives real-time status. It has the ability to collect data from any source and multiple sources, and it can correlate them.

Incentivized

AppDynamics has its own community site that includes forums and a knowledge base. On the forums, you can converse with other members of the community and ask technical questions as you have them. Though this forum isn’t filled with people there are active members for you to gain some valuable insights.

Incentivized

AppDynamics is easy to use when compared with Datadog and provide rich user interface. We prefer AppDynamics as it gives more data insight. We can easily install the AppDynamics agent and integrate with application. Also AppDynamics subscription cost was in budget with our organization that result in overall business growth.

Incentivized

It is good that the correlation analysis and the cause of the failure can be analyzed more extensively through the collection of many data. It is good because it provides a user interface (usability) well and can be used conveniently.
It is good because it can utilize anomaly detection through various AI-based ML models.

Incentivized

• Platform map drilldown capabilities and code-level visibility helped us to find the root cause of problems faster
• Threshold alerts made proactive problem handling easier
• Data capture module helped us to link technical data with business data and support customers far more efficiently

Incentivized

• The ability to resolve issues in real time increased for us.
• The ability to see the issues before they start to happen by monitoring trends improved our uptime.
• The visual component increases team collaboration

Incentivized