AppDynamics vs. Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppDynamics
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
AppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.N/A
Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Splunk APM is an application performance monitor that uses AI to drive troubleshooting of issues that arise within applications.
$55
per month
Pricing
AppDynamicsSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Editions & Modules
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Standard
$55 ($660 billed annually)
Per Host, Per Month
Enterprise
$85 ($1,020 billed annually)
Per Host, Per Month
Enterprise (Usage-based Price)
Per TAPM
Trace Analyzed Per Minute
Standard (Usage-based Price)
Per TAPM
Trace Analyzed Per Minute
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppDynamicsSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSplunk APM offers Host-based Pricing or Usage-based Pricing, billed annually. Significant Volume Discounts offered.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
AppDynamics
Chose AppDynamics
It differs from these programs because it integrates seamlessly with a wide range of technologies and platforms and has strong integration capabilities, a crucial factor in adapting to different technology stacks.
Chose AppDynamics
Overall value...AppDynamics won out in cost, support, and data returned for applications.
Chose AppDynamics
AppDynamics is more a graphical representation of data, where as other tools like Splunk shows data in a table format using Query structure. AppDynamics helps is in analyzing system performance, but other tools just help to log the data and send alerts upon manual setting. …
Chose AppDynamics
AppDynamics falls under Cisco's Full Stack Observability and is now deeplyintegrated with Thousand Eyes, Secure App and Intersight covering addional monitoring layes that no other solution out there does well.
Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Chose Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
The above applications have their own use cases. Thousand Eyes or SiteScope is used for URL monitoring and Splunk is used for application monitoring. AppDynamics is also used for application monitoring and can monitor the server very well but it lacks when searching in logs …
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Features
AppDynamicsSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
AppDynamics
8.4
59 Ratings
10% above category average
Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
7.8
9 Ratings
2% above category average
Application monitoring9.359 Ratings8.29 Ratings
Database monitoring7.758 Ratings7.79 Ratings
Threshold alerts9.058 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities7.757 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console8.857 Ratings7.89 Ratings
Collaboration tools7.947 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring8.430 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.729 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.49 Ratings
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User Ratings
AppDynamicsSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(59 ratings)
8.1
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
8.1
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppDynamicsSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
Platforms for software as a service (SaaS) frequently cater to a large number of users with a variety of needs and usage patterns. Because AppDynamics offers multi-tenant monitoring capabilities to track performance across various customer environments, it is a good choice for SaaS platform monitoring. SaaS providers can maximize resource utilization, proactively detect and resolve performance issues, and provide a dependable and consistent user experience for their clients with AppDynamics.
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Splunk
Good for below cases 1. There is a front end and need to correlate data with front end data 2. multiple microservices and need to check the health of each system 3. correlate data from various sources 4. Application performance is a key to be captured 5. application performance is a key metric.
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Pros
Cisco
  • AppDynamics delves deeply into traceability and profiling at the code level. By identifying and refactoring any hidden performance hogs in our code, we can directly observe the performance improvements.
  • AppDynamics provides real-time dashboards and in-depth insights into each layer of the application stack, lifting the curtain on performance.
  • AppDynamics gives us the ability to proactively detect and resolve performance issues. We are able to keep things running smoothly for our users and stop outages.
  • We can monitor stability and performance prior to, during, and following releases with AppDynamics, which helps to minimize regression risks and facilitate smooth rollouts.
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Splunk
  • Detect and Troubleshoot, which allows team to eliminate errors.
  • Dashboard creates a one stop location for environment health
  • Provides visibility, access to logs and user data real time.
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Cons
Cisco
  • Improving the clarity and comprehensiveness of the documentation could benefit users. Clearer documentation ensures that users can make the most of all the functionalities
  • Leverages AI and machine learning for intelligent insights, aiding in issue identification and prediction.
  • Competitive, with AI-driven features becoming increasingly common in APM solutions.
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Splunk
  • I wish Splunk Application Performance Monitoring could integrate with packet capture and analysis tools and provide the integrated analysis results on each tier of the application
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Likelihood to Renew
Cisco
its working for us, we are familiar and comfortable with the tool and its proven valuable/indispensable in helping evaluate our code.
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Splunk
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Usability
Cisco
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Splunk
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.
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Support Rating
Cisco
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.
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Splunk
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
It is distinguished from these programs because the platform provides visualizations of application processes, showing the interplay between various parts and services. Understanding the architecture of complicated apps and finding their weak spots is greatly aided by this.
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Splunk
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.
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • AppDynamics has played a pivotal role in optimizing our applications for a seamless user experience. The proactive monitoring and quick issue resolution have translated into improved user satisfaction and increased retention rates.
  • The initial cost and effort associated with implementing AppDynamics might be considered a negative impact, particularly for organizations with budget constraints. However, the long-term benefits have justified this initial investment.
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Splunk
  • It gave us more quicker alerts in a organize way to distribute to specific audience.
  • Helped us to improve our uptime by getting pro-active alerts via emails
  • More collaboration in a DevOps culture
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