Splunk AppDynamics

Score8.3 out of 10

246 Reviews and Ratings

What is Splunk AppDynamics?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Application monitoring
Application monitoring involves tracking response times and resource usage for applications, including highly-distributed applications
Category average: 8.6
Application performance management console
The management console is used to manage monitoring agents and et thresholds, etc.
Category average: 8
Threshold alerts
Alerts indicating when critical thresholds have been reached
Category average: 8.7

Database monitoring
Database monitoring means looking for database bottlenecks liable to slow response times
Category average: 8.2
Predictive capabilities
Data mining of log and other performance data to understand predictors of slowdowns or outages
Category average: 7.6
Collaboration tools
Collaboration tools enable DevOps staff to collaborate by adding notes/comments and also integrating with external collaboration tools like ticketing systems
Category average: 7.4

Arushi Batra View profile

Senior Technical Analyst in Information Technology at GlobalLogic (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we are using this to monitor every aspects of our organisation related to business or operation issues. It detect and resolves issues automatically. It is easy to integrate or implement in the existing infrastructure. It has best in segment monitoring tools. It gives the alerts if any issue occur. It is very beneficial for our IT department. It ensure security and there is no downtime of our existing application. Also we can add indicators for detecting the issues.

Pros

Gives the clear view of any slowness or issues on the dashboard.
It is robust, transparent and scalable.
Provide very accurate response.

Cons

Pricing is high needs to be pocket friendly.
Database monitoring is getting slow sometimes when data is huge or complex.

Return on Investment

Troubleshooting of issues is quick, reduce crashes and downtime.
Revenue increase because it reduce manual efforts and saves maintenance cost.

Usability

Shivanand Labbi

Senior software engineer in Information Technology at Manhattan (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Splunk AppDynamics is our primary tool for monitoring the applications and all the servers and also it analyses the application load and traffic requests to give us clean picture of end to end flow of application so with this all our servers will be actively monitored and we get alerts if anything crosses threashould value apart from this we track the application user requests and monitoring the performance of a complex system also it provides clear vision of the full architecture including the communication/flow between different services part of the solution

Pros

Application servers monitoring
Application user requests load monitoring
Performamce monitoring
Server history data with stats

Cons

Some improvements visualization all things on dashboard
Alerts triggers should be more accurate its takes sometime
Auto healing concepts should be more improvised one
Integrating with other apps need lot of preparation

Return on Investment

Die to active monitoring of servers we get all the alerts on time and takes action before it really makes an business impact
Since we monitor application flow also incase if any issues with DB and all we get to know quickly and take actions it avoid ls the business downtime
Stat analysis helps in demand forecasting as well
Clear architecture diagram of application flow for betterment services

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Nagios XI

Other Software Used

HashiCorp Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my case, as a software developer at a financial institution, I am responsible for developing the integration layer in the bank's architecture, so I often use Splunk AppDynamics to monitor my applications: their heartbeats, their status, the number of users using my API, etc. It also shows me the links between the different services.

Pros

Status of microservices
relation between different microservices
number of users using my services

Cons

installation
using Splunk AppDynamics over cloud
setting Splunk AppDynamics configuration with microservices

Return on Investment

negative impact: too expensive for the annual licence fee
positive impact: comprehensive monitoring of every small and large detail of microservices
positive impact: in the event of a crash and shutdown, it helps you identify the area of failure

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Elastic Observability

Other Software Used

Dynatrace, Datadog, Azure Monitor

Rafael Santos

Monitoring Specialist in Information Technology at Fleetcor (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The solution is used for end-to-end monitoring in B2B and B2C customer applications. We use the SaaS solution, with the instrumentation of machine agents (windows / Linux), introspection in JAVA code, and Oracle and MSSQL databases. Experience monitoring was also used in major web portals. There was the integration of alarms with incident openings and other monitoring tools. Several Dashboards were implemented with business metrics.

Pros

Business monitoring
Dashboards
Opening and closing incidents

Cons

Event correlation
Single agent for multiple applications
Machine agent performance

Most Important Features

Dashboards
Fine tuning of alarms
Escalation

Return on Investment

RAM upgrade because of the machine agent
Business performance view
Licensing cost

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM), Dynatrace and Zabbix

Other Software Used

Dynatrace, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, Zabbix, PagerDuty

Alazar Adefris View profile

Senior System Admin in Information Technology at Awash (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AppDynamics was used to perform observability in over all infrastructure and service monitoring setting. the business problem it will address includes giving over all or holistic view of systems from infra Db and application side.

Pros

Infra Monitoring
DB monitoring
App monitoring
Correlations

Cons

AI enablement
RCA support

Return on Investment

reduce Downtime
Plan for growth

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Dynatrace, IBM Instana and ManageEngine OpManager

Other Software Used

Dynatrace, ManageEngine OpManager, Datadog

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Splunk AppDynamics

What is Splunk AppDynamics?

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Application monitoring

Application performance management console

Threshold alerts

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Database monitoring

Predictive capabilities

Collaboration tools

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