Splunk AppDynamics vs. SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

Splunk AppDynamics

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	VividCortex, acquired by SolarWinds in December 2019, provides database performance monitoring designed to increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings. The GDPR- and SOC 2-compliant platform offers visibility into major open-source databases—MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis—for the engineering team at scale. Industry leaders like Etsy, GitHub, SendGrid, and Yelp rely on Database Performance Monitor for all-query monitoring and drill…	N/A

Pricing

Splunk AppDynamics

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Splunk AppDynamics	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Splunk AppDynamics	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Considered Both Products	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?	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Chose SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor DPM is less expensive and more feature-rich. Also, Oracle tech support is garbage, unless you can afford to spend a day getting assistance. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Splunk AppDynamics

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

Application Performance Management

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

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	Splunk AppDynamics	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
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User Ratings
	Splunk AppDynamics	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Splunk AppDynamics	SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend	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	Computing resources consumed by the DB instance, DPA queries & wait time, deadlock conditions, virtual infrastructure resources. The addition of NPM & DPA integration as well as cross-correlation in the identification of issues with the network or server or DB is all stupid-proof. Monitoring is more than just health and resource consumption, it's also performance. DB performance analysis is key to maintaining healthy DB instances. Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
Pros	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	Simple to use and very easy to learn. The execution engines run in parallel, can execute any syntax or query. DPN can run all queries for both Oracle and SQL with no additional support. Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
Cons	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	The Reporting feature currently doesn't allow customization. Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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	No answers on this topic
Usability	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	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	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	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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	DPM is less expensive and more feature-rich. Also, Oracle tech support is garbage, unless you can afford to spend a day getting assistance. Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	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	What is the cost of a downed DB instance? That's your ROI. DPM lets you see issues before they become critical. Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
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