Item: Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using it for applications overall performance review which in conjunction with logs coming from infra level gives us a much needed analysis for our ops team. This helps alot in triage and understanding where is the actual issue in apps . Very useful experience and easy to use and navigate in tool

Pros and Cons

Monitoring microservices
Ease in troubleshooting

Building SLA management using this tool to give costing elements touch to apps availability

Return on Investment

Ease of monitoring and time saving in onboarding application monitoring

Usability

It is good but still has some way to go in terms of overall discovery of IT components , for now it is building service views based on the application calls initiated

Alternatives Considered

Dynatrace, New Relic and BMC TrueSight Vulnerability Management for Third Party Applications

It has edge because of our existing logging solutions is Splunk

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

Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)

Likelihood to Recommend

For thick client based application not very much useful if those are not java based

APM review

Overall Satisfaction with Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)