Elastic Observability vs. Splunk AppDynamics

Elastic Observability

Splunk AppDynamics

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Elastic Observability	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	Elastic Observability, from Elastic, the makers of Elasticsearch, is a solution that aims to bring logs, metrics, and APM based on the former Opbeat (acquired by Elastic in 2017) traces together at scale in a single stack so users can monitor and react to events happening anywhere in an IT environment. It's free and open to start, and adds the Logs, Metrics, APM (formerly Opbeat), and Uptime modules to the Elastic (ELK) Stack.	N/A
Splunk AppDynamics	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	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.	N/A

Pricing

Elastic Observability

Splunk AppDynamics

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Elastic Observability	Splunk AppDynamics
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Elastic Observability	Splunk AppDynamics
Considered Both Products	Elastic Observability KR Kunnath Rahul Software Engineer Chose Elastic Observability Elastic observability has a lot of features and good customer support. And Overall cost is good. Product functionality and performance are good but have some charting issues. But it is good. Elastic observability has a product roadmap and future vision. And it also has a good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Elastic Observability Splunk is a very good product but the licensing costs are high; we utilise the best of both worlds by using both products for slightly different purposes. We put the voluminous data with simple use cases in Elastic where it doesn't cost too much and can be searched quickly … Incentivized Helpful?	Splunk AppDynamics Alazar Adefris Senior System Admin Chose Splunk AppDynamics Dynatrace is the first and AppDynamics second Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk AppDynamics IBM Instana and Dynatrace Incentivized Helpful? Keshav Baisla Team Lead Chose Splunk AppDynamics Our organization prefers AppDynamics for its focus on user experience and business metrics which is quite useful for aligning IT performance with organization goal. it is also known for its AI driven insights and monitoring capabilities making it very effective as compares to … Incentivized Helpful? Jeetu Kumar ERP Executive Chose Splunk AppDynamics New Relic and Dynatrace Incentivized Helpful? Deepanshi Choudhary Dot net developer Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics is easy to use, very good monitoring and provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, database,and external services. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk AppDynamics Actually they are integrated and are the completion of something bigger, larger, better in order to get a full stack observability. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk AppDynamics ScienceLogic SL1, Dynatrace, SolarWinds AppOptics, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Datadog and ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer Incentivized Helpful? Peter Awortwe IT Asset and Configuration Analyst, Service Catalog Manager, Knowledge Manager Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics gives a better insight and query tuning compared to the others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics is a mature product with probably the simplest of UIs to use which is a huge benefit. I can train users to be proficient in AppDynamics in under an hour. But the product can definitely do some very advanced operations... depending on the need. Incentivized Helpful? DR Dhevasenapathy Ramasamy Shanmugasundaram Senior Application Support Engineer Chose Splunk AppDynamics Easy to use UI. Out of box capabilities. Getting reactive to proactive within minutes of instrumentation. Incentivized Helpful? GT Gary Tomcik Lead Software Engineer Chose Splunk AppDynamics Dynatrace and Elasticsearch Incentivized Helpful? AV armand vasquez Network Technician Chose Splunk AppDynamics Splunk tends to give us latency where AppDynamics has been consistent Incentivized Helpful? Libby Schee Human Resources Administrative Assistant Chose Splunk AppDynamics It differs from these programs because it integrates seamlessly with a wide range of technologies and platforms and has strong integration capabilities, a crucial factor in adapting to different technology stacks. Incentivized Helpful? Michelle Ritson Sales And Marketing Specialist Chose Splunk AppDynamics It is distinguished from these programs because the platform provides visualizations of application processes, showing the interplay between various parts and services. Understanding the architecture of complicated apps and finding their weak spots is greatly aided by this. Incentivized Helpful? Mary Smith Project Manager Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics excels at delivering extensive insights into the performance of apps at the code level. It enables developers to zero in on certain lines of code or modules that are causing performance difficulties, making it possible for more effective debugging and optimization. … Incentivized Helpful? Tony Kiema Software Engineer Chose Splunk AppDynamics It's easy to customize alerts into easy notifications, view everything in a graphical manner, and it's easy to understand. AppDynamics helps us to understand and monitor our network and servers related issues before they cause an impact on our business processes or clients. … Incentivized Helpful? Apeksha Jain Hopital Manager Chose Splunk AppDynamics I have used Splunk for a short period. It was difficult to connect with the server and it takes much time to connect with the central server but AppDynamics is quite fast in it. Plus the service handlers for Splunk were a little ignorant their response was usually late in … Incentivized Helpful? AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Chose Splunk AppDynamics Unfortunately, I wasn't in the company when the decision was made, hence can tell just because. What I can tell from my experience, it was not a bad choice and alternatives like New Relic or Datadog provide more or less similar functionality. In most cases the main reasons are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDymanics and Solarwinds was a good products at application and website monitoring. For SQL monitoring AppDymanics was the superior product is it found several queries that were slowing down the server while Solarwinds could not find any issues. The version of Nagios that we … Incentivized Helpful? BW Brad Welsh Program Manager Chose Splunk AppDynamics Overall value...AppDynamics won out in cost, support, and data returned for applications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk AppDynamics Ease of use, the fast pace of the product growth. Analytics and BiQ is a huge bonus for adding value to Business who ultimately are the owners as they pay for AppDynamics. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk AppDynamics The bank has some legacy application infrastructures that only AppD can monitor. no other competitors can monitor it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics is more a graphical representation of data, where as other tools like Splunk shows data in a table format using Query structure. AppDynamics helps is in analyzing system performance, but other tools just help to log the data and send alerts upon manual setting. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk AppDynamics We haven't evaluate any other product. AppDynamics was what we required at that time. Incentivized Helpful? Silviya (Vasileva) Marcu Busness development manager Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics falls under Cisco's Full Stack Observability and is now deeplyintegrated with Thousand Eyes, Secure App and Intersight covering addional monitoring layes that no other solution out there does well. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Elastic Observability

Splunk AppDynamics

Application Performance Management

Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
	Elastic Observability - Ratings	Splunk AppDynamics 8.5 Ratings 11% above category average
Application monitoring	00 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Database monitoring	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Threshold alerts	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Predictive capabilities	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Application performance management console	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Collaboration tools	00 Ratings	7.60 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Elastic Observability	Splunk AppDynamics
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.7 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Elastic Observability	Splunk AppDynamics
Likelihood to Recommend	Great platform for managing application and server logs at a large scale. Elasticsearch can be integrated into 3rd-party software. For example, when combined with Kibana, beats, and logstash to build a full ELK stack it is very powerful and extremely useful for log evaluation, analysis showing detailed information, and creating a monitoring system. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Platforms for software as a service (SaaS) frequently cater to a large number of users with a variety of needs and usage patterns. Because AppDynamics offers multi-tenant monitoring capabilities to track performance across various customer environments, it is a good choice for SaaS platform monitoring. SaaS providers can maximize resource utilization, proactively detect and resolve performance issues, and provide a dependable and consistent user experience for their clients with AppDynamics. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Licensing model is fair compared with other vendors that charge much more Ability to scale and ingest a lot of data without having to worry too much about performance issues that may crop up Searches return very fast GUI searching interface and filters are intuitive and suitable for new users Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	AppDynamics excels in creating dynamic baselines for application performance. For instance, during periods of varying workloads, it automatically adjusts performance baselines. This adaptive baseline creation helps in accurately detecting anomalies and deviations, ensuring that abnormal behavior is quickly identified and addressed. The scalability of an organization's apps can be evaluated with the assistance of AppDynamics. It gives insights into how effectively programs can handle increased workloads, helping to proactively address scalability concerns before they impair performance. Libby Schee Human Resources Administrative Assistant Read full review
Cons	User Interface. Dashboarding. Charting issues. Incentivized KR Kunnath Rahul Software Engineer Read full review	The initial setup process of AppDynamics could be more user-friendly. Some users find the configuration and onboarding to be a bit complex. Improving the onboarding experience could make it more accessible, especially for smaller teams or those with limited resources. It can be difficult for some users to get AppDynamics up and running for the first time. For new users, the platform's usability might be improved by streamlining the onboarding process or providing more user-friendly setup wizards. Mary Smith Project Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	its working for us, we are familiar and comfortable with the tool and its proven valuable/indispensable in helping evaluate our code. Incentivized William Guertin CloudOps Manager Infrastructure Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Actually, I would like to give it a score of 10 out of 10, but taking into account certain factors such as: the cost of the annual licence, the complexity of installation and configuration, the blurring of setting Splunk AppDynamics over the cloud and especially OpenShift since we use it as a container platform. So, 8 out of 10 looks perfect for it Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	AppDynamics has its own community site that includes forums and a knowledge base. On the forums, you can converse with other members of the community and ask technical questions as you have them. Though this forum isn’t filled with people there are active members for you to gain some valuable insights. Incentivized Eduin Zuloaga IT Architecture Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Elastic observability has a lot of features and good customer support. And Overall cost is good. Product functionality and performance are good but have some charting issues. But it is good. Elastic observability has a product roadmap and future vision. And it also has a good and strong user community with a lot of people engaging with good customer support for all needs. Incentivized KR Kunnath Rahul Software Engineer Read full review	It is distinguished from these programs because the platform provides visualizations of application processes, showing the interplay between various parts and services. Understanding the architecture of complicated apps and finding their weak spots is greatly aided by this. Michelle Ritson Sales And Marketing Specialist Read full review
Return on Investment	Flexibility to store, search and aggregate any type of data, regardless of data source. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We can optimize infrastructure utilization and lower cloud or server costs by locating and removing resource-intensive bottlenecks with the aid of AppDynamics. Building trust with external stakeholders and encouraging accountability within our organization, AppDynamics' comprehensive reporting and monitoring capabilities offer transparency into the health of applications. We can find bugs earlier and improve development workflows with the help of AppDynamics' real-time insights and code-level profiling. Incentivized Ayesha Tabassum Software Engineer Read full review
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