Kibana vs. Splunk AppDynamics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kibana
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Kibana allows users to visualize Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack so you can do anything from tracking query load to understanding the way requests flow through your apps.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
KibanaSplunk AppDynamics
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
KibanaSplunk AppDynamics
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Kibana
9.0
Ratings
7% above category average
Splunk AppDynamics
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Kibana
5.7
Ratings
33% below category average
Splunk AppDynamics
-
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Drill-down analysis7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration3.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Kibana
8.8
Ratings
4% above category average
Splunk AppDynamics
-
Ratings
Publish to Web9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Kibana
8.8
Ratings
8% above category average
Splunk AppDynamics
-
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Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Kibana
-
Ratings
Splunk AppDynamics
8.5
Ratings
11% above category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
KibanaSplunk AppDynamics
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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8.7
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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9.1
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Usability
-
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8.5
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Support Rating
7.7
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8.1
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User Testimonials
KibanaSplunk AppDynamics
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for teams big and small that want a single pane of glass for understanding their systems, from dev, to staging, to production. Well-suited for teams that need to preserve logs for long-term compliance reasons, and also mine their logs for useful operational insights. Highly recommended as both an open source project and a commercial offering with fantastic paid support.
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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.
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Pros
  • searching
  • near real-time
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  • 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.
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Cons
  • Improved tutorial/ user guidance
  • Improved labeling for sources
  • Ease of login and sharing with coworkers
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  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
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its working for us, we are familiar and comfortable with the tool and its proven valuable/indispensable in helping evaluate our code.
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Usability
Its usability is generally good and it provides teams with a basic to intermediate understanding about data visualization. It is very user-friendly when it comes to creating dashboards. The UI is very good and simple. Its integration with other tools for alerting and reporting is amazing. But its advance features have a learning curve and a first timer needs some time to use the advance features.
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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
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Support Rating
I have not contacted Kibana support.
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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.
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Alternatives Considered
Well when it comes to using Kibana when compared to Datadog, I can say that Kibana is pretty [...] cheap. Apart from APM and Datadog hosted agents, Kibana gives a good competition to Datadog for real time log analysis as well as metrics analysis. While OpsGenie is a great tool for alerting, it lacks visualization when compared to Kibana. Grafana is another opensource tool that gives a lot of insights like Kibana but Grafana cannot be easily integrated with OpenSearch.
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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.
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Return on Investment
  • First stop when diagnosing production performance issues.
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  • 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.
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