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Splunk AppDynamics

Score8.4 out of 10

270 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Splunk AppDynamics?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Splunk AppDynamics has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Application performance management console

    The management console is used to manage monitoring agents and et thresholds, etc.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Application monitoring

    Application monitoring involves tracking response times and resource usage for applications, including highly-distributed applications

    Category average: 7.5

  • Server availability and performance monitoring

    Ability to monitor server availability

    Category average: 7.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Database monitoring

    Database monitoring means looking for database bottlenecks liable to slow response times

    Category average: 7.5

  • Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting

    Ability to assess server usage and forecast future needs

    Category average: 7.3

  • Predictive capabilities

    Data mining of log and other performance data to understand predictors of slowdowns or outages

    Category average: 6.8

Reviews

What users are saying about Splunk AppDynamics.
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A MustHave Tool for Reducing MTTR and Improving Uptime

Incentivized
Ali Abrar
Manager Business Development in Sales at Axelliant LLC (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Splunk AppDynamics to monitor, analyze, and optimize application performance across complex, distributed systems. The platform provides real-time visibility from end-user interactions through backend services, databases, and infrastructure, enabling teams to quickly diagnose issues, maintain uptime, and improve digital experiences. Business Performance Analytics links technical performance metrics—such as response time and error rates—directly to business outcomes, including revenue and conversion rates.

Pros

  • Business Transaction Monitoring is one of its signature strengths. This represents a major differentiator from generic infrastructure monitoring tools.
  • AI‑driven anomaly detection and intelligent alerting provide a significant advantage over traditional monitoring.
  • When combined with Splunk AppDynamics, full‑stack observability becomes a key part of Cisco/Splunk’s unified observability strategy.

Cons

  • The platform is not evolving as quickly as its competitors
  • SaaS platform downtime needs improvement. During a production incident, teams sometimes experience delayed dashboards, slow metric ingestion, or a temporary loss of visibility. This is painful during critical outages.
  • Improved integration with AI/ML Capabilities is needed.

Return on Investment

  • Positive: AppDynamics’ Business iQ helps quantify revenue impact from performance issues.
  • Positive: AppDynamics’ deep transaction tracing helps teams fix issues before customers abandon sessions.
  • Negative: AppDynamics’ power comes with complexity. If teams don’t fully adopt the platform, the organization may not realize the full value.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Dynatrace, Datadog and IBM Instana

Other Software Used

Datadog, Dynatrace, IBM Instana

Advanced monitoring and APM tool for business enterprises

Incentivized
Leonard Canastra
Sales Specialist in Sales at Nuqleous (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Splunk AppDynamics is the primary platform that monitors performance of applications in the organization. It is easy to setup and get real-time alerts on workflows. The application can debug issues and monitor long learning queries on various projects and tasks. It detects problematic issues on our marketing infrastructure to enhance efficient production in our enterprise.

Pros

  • Detection of errors in workflow chains.
  • Real-time data orchestration.
  • Provision of performance metrics and alerts.

Cons

  • The cost is high as compared to other competitors.
  • The performance is solid.

Return on Investment

  • The performance and application monitoring capacity has generated positive ROI.
  • The system has deployed powerful operation metrics that enhance compliance.

Usability

Other Software Used

Snowflake, ClickUp, IBM Watson Content Analytics

Advanced application performance monitoring platform

Incentivized
Amber Care
Inventory Analyst in Product Management at Techila Global Services (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AppDynamics is highly flexible tool that is easy to deploy and integrate with other 3rd party services. It monitors critical application operations that runs most programs in the organization. It supports efficient server configurations for fast alerts and performance metrics. It can integrate with other solutions like Dynatrace to ensure there is solid workflows throughout.

Pros

  • Business production enhancement.
  • Application performance monitoring.
  • Provision of real-time insights.

Cons

  • I have not not experienced effective drawbacks that could lead to poor performance.
  • The renewal cost is high for small scale business enterprises.

Return on Investment

  • Improved application performance and data debugging has enhanced positive ROI.
  • We have achieved most targeted objectives of streamlining application performance.

Usability

Other Software Used

Akamai Cloud Computing, IBM Turbonomic, Adobe Advertising Cloud

Your Application monitoring copilot - AppD

Incentivized
Shivam TiwariView profile
Software development consultant in Engineering at Lumen (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization, we use AppDynamics to track performance, monitor logs, and errors of our microservices. AppDynamics helps us to track and monitor the overall health of our application. During peak times, traffic load, response time, and application errors are captured and monitored. It is being used for more than 400 microservices as a monitoring tool.

Pros

  • Log monitoring and observability.
  • Traffic load over the time.
  • Response time and application behavior monitoring.
  • Error logging and capturing.
  • Integrated with Grafana and other monitoring tool.

Cons

  • Sometimes page gets stuck.
  • Cloud version as not suits well as Data Dog does.
  • Page redirection and switching different for each sub items, refresh thing.

Return on Investment

  • We have utilised it for alert monitoring, and we improved application error and timeout rates by 99% after monitoring in Dynamics.
  • One negative is that it is bulky and costly having financial burden on organization.
  • Application performance and uptime has been increased.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

Other Software Used

Google App Engine, Datadog, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Vertex AI

Splunk AppDynamics review

Incentivized
Mohamed Taha
Senior Manager - Performance Reliability Information Technology in Information Technology at Emkan (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we are using Splunk AppDynamics as observability tools and troubshooting tools for monitoring log messages and trace business transaction flow SO we added required systems to Splunk AppDynamics and created Dashboarded based on each team requirements and scope for example NOC team just need to be alerted if any issue happen other teams need more details like application support team need complete tracing for the logs

Pros

  • monitoring log files
  • monitoring dashboards for API integrations error
  • security issues

Cons

  • Dashboards presentation
  • triggered messages based on event logs we need to show another messages for NOC team to reflect the real issue

Return on Investment

  • increase our visibility to our systems
  • increase our trust in our systems
  • allow us to know whrere is the problem direct

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM Instana and Dynatrace

Other Software Used

IBM Instana, Dynatrace, OpenText Operations Bridge

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