SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability vs. Splunk AppDynamics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability aims to provide a comprehensive, integrated, and full-stack solution designed to optimize performance, improve availability, and reduce remediation time by correlating data from across the IT ecosystem, including networks, servers, applications, databases, and more.
$5
per month per node
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
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Editions & Modules
Essentials
$5
per month per node
Advanced
$9
per month per node
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is set per node, per month, and billing is annual. The prices listed are base prices that could increase depending on your environment. Please speak to a representative to get a quote.
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Features
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Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
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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
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud ObservabilitySplunk AppDynamics
Likelihood to Recommend
For mid-market and larger, HCO provides a highly available single pane of glass. The user and group management provides a granular ability to deploy to the various areas of the support and engineering teams. Integration to ITSM platforms ensures that information from the platform flows in real time to the right people.
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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
  • unlimited APEs included
  • all modules under one platform
  • overall cost savings when compared to buying multiple APEs and modules, NetFlow NCM, Ipam, etc.
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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
  • Please fix the time zones issue. Events are in UTC, Charts in the user's Local Time, Alerts come in through with Main Server timestamp - it's all over the place & it's been like that for so long. We are a large corp, the teams span time zones and trying to work with teams across the globe is made so difficult by this.
  • The inability to ingest the tags from AWS Cloud watch and the countless posts / feature requests on thwack complaining about this that just get ignored. It's such a basic feature of Cloud & I don't want to have to own a different product to use such an fundamental part of cloud.
  • Maintenance Windows - why can we not set a reoccurring window from the web ui in 2022?
  • SAM - Manage applications, why is there no search bar to filter through applications. When you scale out to enterprise size this is so annoying trying to guess which page to land on to find the application / device I'm looking for.
  • http://hostname/Orion/APM/Admin/Applications/Default.aspx
  • Half baked features being released - Log Analyzer shipped with no resources for the node details page. The Free version from 2016 had more available in it.
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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
- decent ease of use - good training materials - good documentation - acceptable level of expected knowledge
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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
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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
Solarwinds has the best overlap of the two others I've mentioned - the other two tools (Datadog and Dynatrace) are great in their own way but Solarwinds is just good at everything; if I had to pick one tool of the above, it would be Solarwinds for the compatibility and ease of use, the other tools are more focused on being great at certain things while Solarwinds is the jack of all trades.
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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
  • Helps us maintain application availability
  • Helps us shorten unplanned downtime
  • Provides these benefits at a fair price
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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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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability Screenshots

Screenshot of ITOM Executive DashboardScreenshot of Observability MapsScreenshot of Performance Analysis DashboardScreenshot of Application Alerting DashboardScreenshot of Network Path Analysis