Item: Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Rating: 8
Author: Anjali Oza

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work as an admin to support Splunk users with their application onboarding, and consultancy to provide the best solution for their use cases. Splunk is a monitoring tool that helps the user to create alert dashboards based on their logs. Splunk helps the user monitor their application and search in their log for failure and error. Splunk SPL is very strong and powerful.

Pros and Cons

Monitoring
Alerts
Dashboard

Price
Onprem application onboarding.

Return on Investment

MTTR is high.

Usability

Splunk is best to monitor the application. It helps nontechnical people to look into the data by creating a dashboard that they can go to and view the health. We can create alerts also if there are too many errors on the application, and we can even connect third-party apps.

Alternatives Considered

ThousandEyes, SiteScope and AppDynamics

The above applications have their own use cases. Thousand Eyes or SiteScope is used for URL monitoring and Splunk is used for application monitoring. AppDynamics is also used for application monitoring and can monitor the server very well but it lacks when searching in logs and finding errors.

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

ThousandEyes, SiteScope, AppDynamics

Likelihood to Recommend

Splunk can perform very well if we want to monitor the application and create an alert/dashboard based on that. But if we go for the price, it is very costly Apm tools. There is no url monitoring on splunk, so we want to monitor the url we have to go to any other apm tool that can do this task.

Splunk Review for Splunk user as an admin.

Overall Satisfaction with Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)