--- title: Splunk AppDynamics Reviews meta_title: 'Splunk AppDynamics Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 375 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Splunk AppDynamics works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 375 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-13' parent_category: name: Monitoring url: https://www.g2.com/categories/monitoring --- # Splunk AppDynamics Reviews **Vendor:** Cisco **Category:** [Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-performance-monitoring-apm) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 375 ## About Splunk AppDynamics Powered by Cisco, AppDynamics is on a mission to help companies see their technology through the lens of the business so they can work as one to prioritize what matters most. We’re reinventing the observability space and simplifying the challenge of digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises. In this era of unprecedented digital growth, the AppDynamics Business Observability Platform transforms organizations faster by providing business context deep into the technology stack, aligning teams around shared priorities, and enabling technologists to act with confidence and control. AppDynamics has been recognized by Gartner as a leader in the APM market for more than eight years and was positioned highest in ‘ability to execute’ in Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant Report for APM. ## Splunk AppDynamics Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **seamless automation** features of AppDynamics, enhancing integration with their enterprise applications and tools. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy integration with ITSM tools** , enhancing overall workflow efficiency and application monitoring. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of integration** with other tools, simplifying the monitoring of critical applications. (1 reviews) - Users highlight the **easy integrations** with downstream products like ITSM tools, enhancing their operational efficiency. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** of AppDynamics with tools like ServiceNow for streamlined performance monitoring. (1 reviews) - Users value the **detailed log management** capabilities of AppDynamics, enabling effective debugging and performance monitoring. (1 reviews) - Monitoring (1 reviews) - Monitoring Ease (1 reviews) - Performance Improvement (1 reviews) - Real-time Monitoring (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users face **billing issues** , including high renewal costs and delays in support and product enhancements post-Cisco acquisition. (1 reviews) - Users express concerns about the **high renewal costs** and the slow support timelines post-Cisco acquisition. (1 reviews) - Users express concern over the **inefficient alert system** , impacting response times and overall monitoring effectiveness. (1 reviews) - Users experience **poor customer support** with slow responses to issues and lengthy timelines for resolution after Cisco's acquisition. (1 reviews) - Users are concerned about **high renewal costs** and delays in product enhancements since the Cisco acquisition. (1 reviews) - Software Instability (1 reviews) - Users face **update issues** with Splunk AppDynamics, experiencing slow support response and manual upgrade requirements. (1 reviews) ## Splunk AppDynamics Reviews ### 1. Good software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kirtesh J. | Senior .NET Consultant, Government Administration, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** dashboard view and the reporting and filtering **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** didnt find much to dislike . I was able to full all my needs **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** monitoring production issues ### 2. Application performance monitoring for web applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Haresh S. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The full blown APM suite has the complete integration and collection of dashboards,reporting,databases and many more features which helps to get started and its ideal for small to medium business scale requirements and also robust and the end user experience includes web and mobile monitoring and gives regular checks and provides reliable updates all the time and its cloud based-unified monitoring goes a long way in determining the performance measure of each UX and individual transactions **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** It does not provide better support java end php nodes and mysql databases servers with the interactive flow of line of http calls from one server to another and sometimes the API calls and integration is a big hassles and takes a lot of comprehensive focus for any manual configuration issues **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Best of the bunch for harnessing all the reporting data and customized back analysis reports all the time **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Best for APM,content cloud monitoring ,large scale business like ours and giving regular alerts,business health and critical analysis for all our products and the status updates are really worth it ,UI complexity is trimmed down and ideal for docker monitoring,pings and service monitoring ### 3. It is a very nice programm to analyze the bussines **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Gambling & Casinos | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** quick to install, we find out the problem in our it structure with this programm..It help us to optimise our enviroment. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Have not a complet documentation, need to have training for users **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We find out that we overload our network, we put another cloud solution for fix it.. realy nice nalyzer. realy nice for container monitoring such as docker ### 4. Quickly and effeciently identify performance issues **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civic & Social Organization | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Deep insights into application. The dashboards are easy to navigate. We've used this product to submit bug reports to our vendor of a closed-source java application. AppDynamics exposes the class and methods with timings and exceptions for each API call. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I can't think of anything. Maybe the "requires flash" is a problem, but I suspect they are working to get rid of flash. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** none. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've used AppDynamics to identify and help solve everything from mis-configured databases to poorly written software. ### 5. Udestanding what is AppD as APM solution **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrey G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Transaction module , Application flow diagram Good quality of documentation. Product presentation. Video lessons. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** JMX browser a bit buggy. Some time adding more examples for various technology can be more helpful. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** If business would like to have more vision on IT and save a lot of money then the Appdynamic is a solution. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** With AppDynamics we can spot the exact peace of "heavy" code. After refactoring our applications have become more stable and faster. ### 6. Troubleshooting made easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The end to end nature of how appdynamics captures an application experience makes it easy to follow what happened in a transaction failure, where it happened and why so that issues can be resolved in a timely manner without a lot of extra overhead in doing manual analysis to track down root causes. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** There is a bit of a learning curve to leveraging the tool but that can be overcome with training. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to stay proactive and ensure daily operations for business processes are successful and if not then to make sure issues are addressed in a timely manner. ### 7. AppD REview **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Line by line code execution metrics and analysis. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Not enough integration with AWS and their DB offerings like Aurora. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Bring your wallet. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Which line of code or third party is slowing down our customers. ### 8. Exceptional Capability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** I love the dashboard, business transactions and overall ease of use of the tool. It integrates well and has some very clever capabilities. The standard interface works well. We have tried EUM and are yet to get this fully implemented but it looks impressive. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** It lacks some instrumentation capabilities for MS BizTalk. Installation can be challenging at time, but once it's understood how it works and gets implemented, then it becomes easy, especially on Java applications. However on .NET applications, this requires more work and a low level technical understanding of how to work with XML structures. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Do a POC, use the software on a complex application in UAT that has sufficient data flowing through it. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance & System Stability is what we are using it to solve We've started to get a better understanding of how our application communicate with one another ### 9. Very powerful tool that allows us to focus on development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The ability to drill down and the business transactions **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppDynamics come with a hefty price tag. It is dissuading for our smaller client environments because it makes our SaaS offering too expensive when we roll in these costs into our business model. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** AppDynamics allows our development team to focus more on developing and less on deep dive troubleshooting. This in turn saves the company money by making our developers more productive. ### 10. AppDynamics is awesome **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Detailed information about my application in a graphical representation **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Could have been more intuitive and easy interface **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Good to try at least once to compare with your existing product, you may love it **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application related issue and able to reach to the bottom of the issue quickly ### 11. Appdynamics reviews **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** i like the ui it gives very nice view of what is going on alongwith the flexibility to plug in with cloud. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** i have not used it to the best extent to show my dislike against it. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** obviously the most accurate health check pf the application ### 12. AppDynamics review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Loi M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The ability to pinpoint potential cause for website performance issues **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Application does take a lot of pc resource. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've been able to identified and correct performance issues for our website ### 13. AppDynamics - A Real APM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppDynamics is a great tool for business monitoring transactions and end to end application monitoring at each level across enterprise. The best thing I like is the Dashboard and performance metrics dashboard. Also like the reporting features a lot. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Overall there is nothing I have disliked other than training people or when we have to install upgraded version of the product. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have solved multiple business problems like 1) excessive latency with apps 2) unusual timeouts 3) session drops 4) long business transaction time We have been able to solve multiple user issues and resulted in customer satisfaction with apps. ### 14. performance management solutions, **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** the best thing is performance and usability,the best thing is performance and usability **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I cannot think of any dislike feature as of now. I cannot think of any dislike feature as of now. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** I will think about it **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Container Monitoring Container Monitoring ### 15. Social Meida **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kylie k. | Social Media , Consumer Electronics, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** it has a really good interface and usability **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Make is more interchangeable with other software **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** I would recommend this software to all my industry colleagues. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** cloud storage and cloud based working ### 16. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The interface for the product is very intuitive and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I have not come across anything that I dislike yet. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use AppDynamics to monitor performance of our custom built applications. We have improved performance of our applications. ### 17. AppDynamics review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppDynamics is very easy to use. Reporting is in real time and so it is very useful in finding issues. Customer support is excellent. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Nothing to dislike about AppDynamics at all **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use AppDynamics to find the issue and resolve them ### 18. AppDynamics **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Very helpful to control servers and activities response of application running on servers Very good **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I would like to see this application running on network equipments **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows to see how we can improve processes within an application ### 19. A indispensable application monitoring tool for any enterprise **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Dashboards are easy to create and folks are able to point out potential problems easily. Not much of an overhead , but its been able to provide reasonable amount of insights in to how the environment is behaving. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Its not able to trace all outgoing calls accurately, its work in progress. But given where we were appdynamics is a lifesaver. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** ensure optimal settings while installing to ensure that it doesnt add too much of overhead. Its advisable to restrict access, else many people will have opinions on what is going wrong and how to fix it. Especially keep it away from management, other wise your dev team is going to spend lot of time explaining why things work in a particular way. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** real-time monitoring of enterprise platform, we are able to identify not only current production issue, but also have ability to trouble shoot and optimize some of the calling patterns in Non production env ### 20. AppDynamics is a very good tool for understanding application dynamics. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppDynamics is a very good tool for understanding application dynamics. It can show various parameters based on which we can monitor application health. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I did not find anything that is not good about AppDynamics. It’s a very powerful tool for studying app dynamics. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used AppDynamics for understanding my application ‘s dynamics. It can show various parameters based on which we can monitor application health. This helped me in understanding and monitoring the applications in a better way. ### 21. AppDynamics - Runtime Performance Best Practice **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sid R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Low to no impact to monitored CI Extremely deep runtime diagnostics across critical applications flows Excellent ability to monitor business transactional to align with business journeys and outcomes Provides monitoring coverage for critical execution path of enterprise systems and applications **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** More support for legacy systems and SAP ERP **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business outcome management and critical business flow management ### 22. Helps us in monitoring our app performance in real time **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Since we started using app dynamics it is helping us to identify which part of the app is having performance issues using the logs and rectify it with our dev. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** As far till now there is nothing that I dislike in the product. Will need to wait and see as we use this app. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Yes recommend this product with my colleagues and friends **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly all the performance related issues specially anything that has to do with database. ### 23. Ensure your code is rock solid! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The ability to monitor all aspects of a request and see individual metrics for each leg of the request's journey. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I honestly do not have any complaints about App Dynamics, I was thoroughly impressed with the product and the representation from the company. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** To ensure that our custom code linking mobile applications and point of sales with back office sources was rock-solid. It also assisted us in identifying bottlenecks and issues with individual vendors that insisted they were not the source of the problem. ### 24. Appdynamics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** His support and interface. It is quite comfortable to use and fast. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** The design. It is very beautiful and simple, very easy to use. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** To do apps instantly ### 25. AppDynamics Renewal for Altisource **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gimena S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The patience and partnership of Will Alford. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Nothing. The renewal was handled by a good customer representative. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had to renew our licenses and our Customer Representative gave us an extension while we went through our internal processes. ### 26. Good technology **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** It's quite dynamic Easy to use and integrate **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** It's not much demanding in the market as of now **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance ### 27. Implementing and working was easy! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppDynamics is easy to use and AppDynamics staff are brilliant and helpful when needed **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** i would prefer better integration to use with different applications and plugins and further ability for customisation **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identifying and resolving issues with our systems / apps. Faster resolutions when problems arise ### 28. Strong and Dynamic **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Apt for steady environments, dependable, relatively light, supports across platforms. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** not fit for today's age as there are approved thatate more adaptive with little or no resource consumption, completely externalized saas solutions. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Judge based on needs than what features product has to offer **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring ### 29. Great Insights, Great Troubleshooting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Being able to have insight into problems on a website, in real time, is extremely useful. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** It's so expansive in functionality that it's very easy to get lost. Sometimes I run a graph or chart that really helps me out, then I can't find it again. It's not always intuitive where to find things. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Get a free demo and then use it to troubleshoot an actual problem you're having. You'll be hooked. It is quite expensive, though, so you'll need buy-in from the decision (budget) makers. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** AppDynamics helps us to find problems quickly so that we can minimize the impact it has on our customers. ### 30. Eyes on for online ordering heath **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Not running blind. See issues with online servers before they become melt downs **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Lack luster training from the vendor and set up is difficult. But partly because you can do so much with it. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Less down time with OLO environment. Improved visuals of problematic behavior of servers ### 31. Innovative product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** This app certainly provides useful insights for the applications running on our distributed clusters in data centers **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** The learning curve is slightly steep for new users, and it takes them a long time before they can do anything productive **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identifying app resource usage trends, and accordingly setting application affinities to different servers ### 32. AppDynamics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The Dashboard and the overall aesthetic is very pleasant **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Quite a few features that it can be overwhelming. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** I highly recommend giving this a try. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analising app usage ### 33. Best to do deep dive analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** System monitoring. Code level deep dive and analysis **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Since this is enterprisw tool, not very easy to setup **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance issues, ### 34. Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Birendra K. | Architect/Lead, Systems Performance (Enterprise Quality and Reliability Engineering), Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The tool is great to drill down an issue. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** All good! No complints as of now. I like it. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** API level performance ### 35. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Excellent app dynamics is wonderful and would recommend to everyone **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Nothing to dislike about it easy to use perfect **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps looks of problems ### 36. Director of IT **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The ability to find real time issues within the applications and measurable alerts to react with. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I dislike the fact they are still using flash! **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Long running SQL jobs, Web service calls failing. Quicker resolution into issues and being able to hold business groups accountable ### 37. AppDynamics Delivers What You'd Expect **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Its a single platform delivering uptime monitoring, application debugging and business initiatives seamlessly. The UI is easy to use and helps to deliver the expectations and business desires of your clients and customers. It has great performance and load testing capabilities as well. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** The cost structure is a little funky and overpriced. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance testing for peak seasons easily. Our load and performance testing use to take a long time and now we can efficiently load test for our three different peak seasons and make adjustments to our code to better stabilize our environments in time for the seasons to start. ### 38. Good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Easy to use and lot is options to choose from **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I have nothing to complain about theirs except for the support **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** .net applications ### 39. Pricey but very powerful and effective solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** It's capable to present information that remains usable and "drillable". **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Apparently, it comes with an expensive licensing system. Only big corporations can afford it. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Make a proper planning of it's utilisation, as it might become an expensive alternative if underused. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring and reporting on performance of many different servers and applications. ### 40. AppDynamics Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Lots of graphs and customization options **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** This product is a little bit hard to use without much training **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Insight into what our applications are doing and when we have errors ### 41. Simple, it just worked as advertised **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** We evaluated several APM platforms, and with a primarily .net based, found it impossible to find one that didn't cost >25% CPU overhead or crashed our applications. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** You always hope for a point and shoot solution. No APM solution in a distributed architecture is. So setup was something that took more than a few hours. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring and performance Management. When you are dealing in e-commerce, technical those technical concerns directly translate in end user experience and ultimately revenue protection. ### 42. App Dynamics Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman K. | Technology Lead, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** App D shows us where exactly is the issue with application in very intuitive way. It drills down into graph as to which remote / DB call is causing delay or error.. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** There is not much to dislike. Although I think it is little complex to use for a new user and it requires training. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Very nice tool for production application monitoring **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Checking Application error details, it saves manual debugging time. ### 43. AppDynamics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Ease of use for developers to see an end to end view of software utilization **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Cost of the product is higher than other competitive tools **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Proactive performance Management of software and reducing problem resolution time ### 44. A nice tool for app monitoring. Used in a microservices environment **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The tool works well. Agents are easy to install and it provides monitoring for various transactions and other useful measurements **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** The tool can be slow. It can be frustrating to click on a button and wait for the page to refresh **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Good tool but have to have patience with the speed of the tool **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to monitor applications and business transactions. We also use it to monitor other business related tools such as queues ### 45. AppDynamics gets the job done. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Application Performance Management (APM) solution was simple yet provided all the needed data to monitor end to end performance. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I didn't find anything that I dislike about the product. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use to gather data for real time performance monitoring of various web base applications. ### 46. Good one for monitoring docker logs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Igor R. | UI Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The easy way to monitor and watch how healthier is a cloud box. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Sometimes it’s tough to build a query. Also it takes long to show result for complete query. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** The monitoring part. It’s easier to monitor how healthier is a cloud box by using their dashboard. ### 47. it is better for some scenarios and applications **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** detail breakdown of business transaction. Good for Development team. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** too much unnecessary information. unnecessary alerts if not configured 100% correctly, Complexity. no network visibility. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** performance. ### 48. AppDynamics - Easiest way to track your system performance **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** User friendly UI and reporting capability. I also like user defined transaction tracking and log analytics. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Flash based dashboards are old technology architecture. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring system performance for any bottlenecks and continuous availability of the system. Proactively identified many issues and fixed them. ### 49. Great tool for apm, businessIq **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Apm features are nice along with IQ features **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** More support is needed to cover lots of azure capbilities **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great tool to find performance issues in a web app ### 50. Excellent product to find out performance matrics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dipak M. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2017 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** This tools comes really handy when we really want to find out the numbers on how application is performing in different environments. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Reports could be more user friendly with drill down support **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** This is surely goto guy for getting real picture of the app in live **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting the memory footprint, performance numbers & statistics of how applications are performing ## Splunk AppDynamics Discussions - [Can AppDynamics be deployed on AWS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/deployment-af457b1d-47b7-4791-a17e-8326806636f4) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can AppDynamics be deployed on Azure?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/deployment-77972c17-0f50-40a5-9525-b508f40848e7) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can AppDynamics be deployed in a private cloud?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/deployment-4e46e198-b0c9-463b-99ca-7fb6868e3070) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is AppDynamics used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-appdynamics-used-for) - 1 comment - [View Splunk AppDynamics pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/splunk-appdynamics/reviews?page=7§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-14+14%3A41%3A20+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6e81f100-513b-4b44-a961-71db530e09f7&secure%5Btoken%5D=0dba3121f92697891ac866be081fb150cbb97dbb0c95d095556f3bd1d60816b3&format=llm_user) ## Splunk AppDynamics Features **Experience** - Real-Time Monitoring - Session Replay - Behavioral Analysis **Monitoring** - Usage Monitoring - Database Monitoring - API Monitoring - Real-Time Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring - Security and Compliance Monitoring **Functionality** - Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning - Systems Monitoring **Functionality** - Diverse Systems Monitoring - Real-Time Analytics - Observability - AI/ML Integration **ServiceNow Apps** - ServiceNow Integration - Value **Monitoring** - Performance Baselines - Performance Analysis - Performance Monitoring - AI/ML Assistance - Multi-System Monitoring **Alerts management** - Multi-mode alerts - Opimization alerts - Incident alerts **Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability** - Multi-Telemetry Ingestion - OpenTelemetry Support **Agentic AI - SAP Store** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Observability Software** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Management** - Content Management - Alerts - Budget Analysis **Administration** - Activity Monitoring - Multi-Cloud Management - Automation - Auto-Scaling & Resource Optimization **Issue Resolution** - Root Cause Identification - Proactive Identification - Resolution Guidance **Management** - Single Pane of Glass - Dashboards and Visualization - Performance Baselines - Alerting **Response** - Dashboards and Visualization - Incident Alerting - Root Cause Analysis (RCA) **Monitoring** - Resource utilization - Real-time monitoring - Performance baseline - API monitoring **Visualization & Dashboards - Observability** - Service Dependency Mapping - Unified Dashboard - Trace Visualization **Agentic AI - ServiceNow Store Apps** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance **Automation** - Resolution automation - Automation **Performance** - Uptime Monitoring - Performance Monitoring - Issue Tracking - Resource Monitoring **Analysis** - Reporting - Dashboards and Visualizations - Spend Forecasting and Optimization **Management** - System Integration - Alerting - Reporting **Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability** - Cross-Telemetry Correlation - Root Cause Detection - Intelligent Alerting **Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Analysis** - Search - Reporting - Visualization - Track trends **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability** - Kubernetes Monitoring - Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Support **Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring** - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Issue Resolution** - Root cause identification - Resolution guidance - Proactive identification **AI Features - Observability** - Predictive Insights - AI-Generated Incident Summaries - AI Anomaly Detection **Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring** - AI-Powered Anomaly Detection - AI-Driven Insight Recommendations **Performance** - Real User Monitoring (RUM) - Second by Second Metrics **Functionality** - Synthetic Monitoring - Dynamic Transaction Mapping - Load Balancing - Cloud Observability ## Top Splunk AppDynamics Alternatives - [Dynatrace](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,232 reviews) - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 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