Item: Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Rating: 8
Author: John Abraham

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use it to monitor day to day activities in order to eliminate bottle necks in our environment. We use the AI Driven analytics to reduce false alerts and discover root cause issues that slow our business processes down. The Dashboard gives insight to our application health and organization efficiency. We use the logs and user data to provide visibility across our entire environment.

Pros and Cons

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.

Integration with other tools and internal dashboards
Develop alerts and capable SMS tools
Additional online training

Return on Investment

Test to production time were improved.
Database efficiency improved
Trouble shooting Application issues were resolved faster

Usability

Overall a great tool to have in your toolbox, It is very intuitive and our entire staff uses the tool. It is easy to use and cost is very reasonable. Splunk also has excellent support team and very easy to work with. Every time we had a challenge, support team was able to help us with the end result.

Alternatives Considered

germain APM, Veryx Cloudmon and HeadSpin

Selection of Splunk Application Performance Monitoring was an easy choice, the feature set was what sold us on the product. We were blown away with the capabilities of the dashboard and the AI functionality. The most impressive feature is the support team and how they feel like an extension of own staff. They always answer the call.

Key Insights

Do you think Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Raygun, SysTrack

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Splunk, The Best Tool you could ask for!

Overall Satisfaction with Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)