Splunk AppDynamics

Score8.2 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: 7.9
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: 7.5

Most Frequent Users

Top 1 industries using Splunk AppDynamics.

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#1 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

100.0%

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Arushi Batra View profile

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

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

Rafael Santos

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

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

Peter Awortwe View profile

IT Asset and Configuration Analyst, Service Catalog Manager, Knowledge Manager in Information Technology at Eprocess ISA (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used AppDynamics for application monitoring as it gives us an end to end transactions view. We were able to determine what the customer was doing wrong from their device and we could also see which queries from our end are causing slowness. We received a timely notification before systems degrade. Appdynamics was used to monitor our Flexcube and Bankcollect application from end to end. Database queries were easily analyzed for optimization.

Pros

It is able to dig deep into queries on databases and determine which queries need improvement.
AppDynamics is great in determining customers pain points and we are able to advice customers better most especially on wrong pins.
AppDynamics is able to do server resources analytics and notify team on pending degradation.
Appdynamics assisted our teams in reviewing application codes and optimizing performance. For application like Bankcollect we were able to recommend to vendor which part of the application codes to optimize.

Cons

On database queries, I believe AppDynamics can find tune the queries when it detects its not fine tuned.
Appdynamics team can also review their license structure to make it more affordable

Return on Investment

Turn around time on troubleshooting on transaction failures is greatly reduced, as AppDynamics can easily identify failure points
Revenue has greatly improved as we now have stability

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Nagios Core, New Relic and Dynatrace

Other Software Used

Nagios Core

New Relic

Datadog

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