New Relic vs. Splunk AppDynamics

New Relic

Splunk AppDynamics

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
New Relic	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	New Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.	$0 No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
Splunk AppDynamics	Score8.2 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

New Relic

Splunk AppDynamics

Free (Forever): $0
No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
Telemetry Data Platform: $0.25
per month per extra GB data ingest (after first free 100GB per month)
Incident Intelligence: $0.50
per month per event (after first 1000 free events per month)
Standard: $99
per month per full user (after first free full user - unlimited free basic users)
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Pricing Offerings
New Relic	Splunk AppDynamics
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

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Key User Insights
	New Relic	Splunk AppDynamics
Considered Both Products	New Relic Verified User Chose New Relic New Relic has full stack visibility and gives us all options for observability like one stop shop. It gives you front end, backend as well synthetic monitoring capabilities. Every other feature built into one cost model (usually) which ties to data that you send, it helps you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose New Relic 10 years ago we used AppDynamics onpremise but the cost was too high and we migrated to New Relic, more economical and modern Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose New Relic New Relic is easier to login and use as it's user friendly, its full-stack capacity lets us to monitor the whole system across all the tiers. However compared to Dynatrace its deep-dive analysis capacity needs to be improved, compared to Splunk its log analysis and reporting … Incentivized Helpful? Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead in Information Technology at Accenture (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose New Relic All the tools mentioned above are pretty much the same in terms of their capabilities for monitoring, reporting, and alerting. Uniqueness in New relic comes from its out-of-the-box functionality to provide visibility into every aspect of application performance and time to … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant in Engineering at HCL Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose New Relic New Relic is competing neck to neck with other APM products in terms of capability, ease of doing business, implementation and configuration, prices, integrations, and future developments. No doubt New Relic is providing out of the box solution for business services monitoring … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose New Relic All of these apps have pros and cons. AppDynamics is very powerful and provides excellent reporting and deep dives on performance. Tableau Desktop's setup can be a bit tedious, but once it is done, it is a great tool to provide visual performance reports. However, the lack of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose New Relic New Relic has a lot of benefits comparing to other solutions. The main one is usability, compared to other solutions on the market, the interface and usability beats everything else and without good user experience, the user tends to ignore the solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose New Relic New Relic's ease of implementation and easy to use portal made it quicker to adopt and implement and get value out of an APM solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose New Relic Although not in the list, Google Stackdriver is also in the competitive landscape for New Relic. We assessed all 3 of the alternatives above. We found AppDynamics to be the superior product, but with a price tag aligned with that superiority. Datadog was the best … Incentivized Helpful? Rounak Jangir Ab Initio Developer in Research & Development at Tata Consultancy Services (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose New Relic New relic let's us have transportation over the entire network infrastructure, which is a very important feature which makes new relic stand out. It provides an extensive monitoring experience, wherein we can compare multiple applications unlike the other tools. Incentivized Helpful? John Grosjean DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Avizia (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees) Chose New Relic AppDynamics is very similar to New Relic, and is probably the only product we evaluated that was competitive. There wasn't a clear winner between these two; we ultimately stayed with New Relic because AppDynamic's support wasn't incredibly impressive, and it didn't seem to have … Incentivized Helpful? Jayson E. Conry Lead Monitoring Engineer in Information Technology at Cambia Health Solutions (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose New Relic Pricing was the primary factor. The cost associated with New Relic works better within a budget line than either of their competitors. Incentivized Helpful?	Cisco Anton Smyslov Product Owner in Information Technology at Sunday (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) 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? William Guertin CloudOps Manager Infrastructure in Information Technology at Accruent (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics We actually have different development teams using both of these tools currently. They are both very good at providing application monitoring. They in some ways have the same flaws. App Dynamics seems very focused on the end-to-end evaluation of the application and New Relic … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics is almost the same as New Relic and I would say they both are at the same level. Datadog is infrastructure monitoring and AppDynamics can catch up on this impact. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics Data dog, it's not an APM to me, yet. It's more like a Nagios or PRTG. And New Relic, it was good. Now it's poor in setup a .Net application. AppDynamics is simply perfect in setup, usage, tips, alarms. It's really what we needed for our environment. All in a single … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics was trialled in a shoot-out between New Relic and Dynatrace and just about edged New Relic simply for the ability to drill down to the methods and lines of code in the error monitoring, which is an invaluable feature for a development manager. New Relic Insights … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Awortwe IT Asset and Configuration Analyst, Service Catalog Manager, Knowledge Manager in Information Technology at Eprocess ISA (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics gives a better insight and query tuning compared to the others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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? Dhevasenapathy Ramasamy Shanmugasundaram Senior Application Support Engineer in Information Technology at PSCU Inc (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics Easy to use UI. Out of box capabilities. Getting reactive to proactive within minutes of instrumentation. Incentivized Helpful? Libby Schee Human Resources Administrative Assistant in Human Resources at Ryder Supply Chain Solutions (Logistics & Supply Chain, 10,001+ employees) 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 in Marketing at Sight & Surf (Computer Hardware, 51-200 employees) 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 in Marketing at VAPRO supply (Retail, 501-1000 employees) 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? Verified User 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 Chose Splunk AppDynamics Ease of usage. Views key metrics of any application you can think of. Analyzes transactions easily. Helps resolve performance issues. Server and application performance management is now very easy with this tool. End user monitoring. Deep code level diagnostics in real time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics New Relic is only SaaS and keys off of AppDex scoring (i.e. industry baselines) and not on my application's baselines. Where most of our stuff is custom apps, going off of industry wasn't valuable to us. It was also cost prohibitive. Incentivized Helpful? Rich Mephan Head of Develop in Research & Development at Peppermint Technology Ltd (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics Appdynamics offered so much more functionality than New Relic, albeit at a more expensive price. The UI was easier to navigate in Appdynamics than in New Relic and it was considerably easier to configure and deploy AppDynamics than New Relic. We had extensive discussions with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics We selected AppD over New Relic as we host a PCI environment and wanted a non cloud solution. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

New Relic

Splunk AppDynamics

Comparison of Application Performance Management features of New Relic and Splunk AppDynamics
Feature	New Relic - Ratings	Splunk AppDynamics 8.5 74 Ratings
Application monitoring	00 Ratings	9.474 Ratings
Database monitoring	00 Ratings	8.071 Ratings
Threshold alerts	00 Ratings	8.872 Ratings
Predictive capabilities	00 Ratings	7.771 Ratings
Application performance management console	00 Ratings	8.971 Ratings
Collaboration tools	00 Ratings	7.659 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring	00 Ratings	8.544 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting	00 Ratings	8.842 Ratings

User Ratings
	New Relic	Splunk AppDynamics
Likelihood to Recommend	6.6 (128 ratings)	8.6 (74 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (17 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.9 (9 ratings)	8.5 (8 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (8 ratings)	8.1 (6 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (10 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	7.3 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

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