AlertSite vs. Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AlertSite
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
AlertSite, from SmartBear Software, is a website monitoring and application performance management application offering real time alerting with root-cause analytics and robust reporting.N/A
Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Score 7.8 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
AlertSiteSplunk 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
AlertSiteSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
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
AlertSiteSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
AlertSiteSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
AlertSite
7.6
4 Ratings
0% below category average
Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
7.8
9 Ratings
2% above category average
Application monitoring8.04 Ratings8.29 Ratings
Database monitoring6.53 Ratings7.79 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console7.54 Ratings7.89 Ratings
Collaboration tools6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding7.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring8.02 Ratings7.49 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery7.53 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AlertSiteSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
8.1
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
3.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
2.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AlertSiteSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Likelihood to Recommend
SmartBear
AlertSite is used in our organization to monitor our website and web applications in real-time to collect the super important metrics reflecting web page load time but from the user end (E2E) and that approaches helps us to understand what our website is experiencing in real-time.
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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
SmartBear
  • The Deja-Click Recorder is an excellent tool.
  • Good UI that translates to large NOC screens well.
  • Easy Alerting and Reporting.
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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
SmartBear
  • Tool is complicated for Alert creation
  • AlertSite GUI need improvement. As compared to Datadog, it needs improvement in GUI
  • While using AlertSite, many times we faced false alerting, they need to take a look at it to improve performance.
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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
SmartBear
Reviewing other cost saving options
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Splunk
No answers on this topic
Usability
SmartBear
Pretty good product only issue was cost
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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
SmartBear
I've been unable to contact support after several attempts.
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Splunk
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
SmartBear
We moved all of our services to Site24x7 after several years with AlertSite. We looked at Uptrends and Pingdom to name a few whilst evaluating options. Pingdom lacks functionality and Uptrends we found to have quite a steep learning curve. AlertSites platform and in particular the Deja-Click recorder is a standout tool against the other platforms. Sadly the upscaling costs of multi-location transactions can quickly add up.
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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
SmartBear
  • A negative thing is Monitoring locations would have issues and cause false-positive alerts and due to that monitoring team's repetitive work has increased.
  • A positive thing that I have noticed so far is the fact that the AlertSite customers support team is trying to build relationships and go the extra mile to make sure we can overcome any occurring issues and they are quick to respond and provide sufficient guidance for implementing efficiently, and fix products issues.
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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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