Item: Splunk AppDynamics
Rating: 9
Author: Gene Baker

Overall Satisfaction with AppDynamics

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use AppDynamics for app performance monitoring of our suite of applications. We also monitor critical business transactions. It is installed on all of our server devices. We can proactively monitor the apps to make sure we are meeting our key performance SLAs.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Application monitoring
Business transaction monitoring.

Cons

It was a little hard to deploy at first for some of our older technologies that are in use.

Return on Investment

ROI has been positive because we are more proactive and less reactive.
Good for trending.

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

Datadog was easy to install on some devices but harder on others based on the OS. We were never able to get Datadog to work in our environment for all devices and apps. AppDynamics works across 100%.

Key Insights

Do you think Splunk AppDynamics delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Splunk AppDynamics's feature set?

Yes

Did Splunk AppDynamics live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Splunk AppDynamics go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Splunk AppDynamics again?

Yes

Other Software Used

MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, IBM Db2 Big SQL

Likelihood to Recommend

We have successfully deployed AppDynamics to Solaris, Linux, and Windows servers - both physical and virtual. After we overcame our learning curve we were able to deploy to our entire suite of applications which span about 32 technologies.

Gives Total View of Infrastructure Components and Applications.