--- 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: '2026-07-07' 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 appreciate the **seamless automation** capabilities of AppDynamics, enhancing integration with ITSM tools like ServiceNow. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy integration with ITSM tools** and appreciate the monitoring capabilities across various cloud environments. (1 reviews) - Users value the **ease of integration** with other tools, simplifying the monitoring of enterprise applications. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** with ITSM tools like Servicenow, enhancing their application monitoring capabilities. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy integration** with ITSM Ticketing Tools, enhancing their monitoring capabilities within AppDynamics. (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 express concern over **billing issues** including high renewal costs and slow support response times following Cisco's acquisition. (1 reviews) - Users express concern over **high renewal costs** and delayed product enhancements since the Cisco acquisition. (1 reviews) - Users find the **inefficient alert system** slows down response times, especially after the Cisco acquisition affecting enhancements. (1 reviews) - Users report **poor customer support** after the Cisco acquisition, citing delays in product enhancements and bug fixes. (1 reviews) - Users find **high renewal costs** and slow support timelines frustrating after the Cisco acquisition of AppDynamics. (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. great application for performance tests **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric P. | Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** the overall view that is either by service or specific to a node for example **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** there can be a lot of info to check at once and many clicks needed to be in a more specific view **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** performance testing in our pre-production environment, just a great monitoring tool and easy to show to other partners for test results ### 2. Application performance Monitoring **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** We are getting detailed information for database performance too, which is not provided in other APM tools. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I didn't dislike anything as such in this tool. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it earlier in my organization to track API response times ### 3. An outsider's (once a part of competitor Organization) views on AppDynamics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Multi-platform applications monitoring capabilities **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Perceptions - like resource-heavy; limited capabilities **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** - Multiplatform monitoring tool - Backed by Cisco's eco-system - **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not a direct user of Appdynamics APM; aware of the reactions from developers' community. ### 4. Seamless integration with the application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The ease of integration, detailing captured and the proactive Alerting that can be set up **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Some products cannot be integrated as plugs ins are not yet available **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Troubleshooting network latency, managing the active connections, monitoring the bottlenecks created. ### 5. Great tool to monitor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Apm tool is best to analyze app side performance and bottlenecks **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** None it is very good tool easy to use and implement **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** App performance is monitored in tool and code level analysis helps to identify problematic areas ### 6. AIOps and Service Management Tools Consultant **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppD is the best Application monitoring tool in the industry. AppD provides in-depth insights into a customer application landscape including Onprem, SaaS, Business, COTS, etc. AppD has improved a lot by focusing on relevant Infra monitoring pertaining to those application landscape as well. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppD need to work on a simpler pricing structure covering end to end Infra monitoring(Servers, Database, Networks) and application landscape. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solve complete Application specific problems and rely upon more matured tools for Infra monitoring. While the complete integrated Analytics and Dashboard provides end to end view, isolating the exact root cause finds it difficult sometimes to identify which tool had the issue. Most of the times, AppD has proved to give benefits like Application oriented business revenue insights, End customer satisfaction improved insights, etc. ### 7. Works great on monitoring windows system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** I inherited this tool from others and was impressed with its simplicity and functionality. It is easy to learn and use. Especially for new learners, it is good to use. The information provided by the logs is quite useful and even a novice can find it handy **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Sometimes i find integration is a bit difficult. Likely because of my lower experience. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Anyone who wants to monitor their logs and get better insights into their environment should give this a try. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to monitor our windows server and i am impressed with its ability to log events. I am used to using windows and this tool integrates well. I have found that we are able to track it easily and become proactive rather than reactive. ### 8. Very Helpful in tracing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** server status, utilization and to find system loophole Dashboard **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** work good for but little pricy and extra plugging need to setup **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application Monitoring ### 9. Great tool for enterprise use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppDynamics is a leading Application Performance Management (APM) product. It is a tool that monitors your Application Infrastructure and gives you code level visibility.AppDynamics APIs,APM Agent Installation.Overall UI Experience is good. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** During application problems, there are limitations to capturing snapshots and full call graphs. Customization is often needed for monitoring applications. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Configuration of alerts When a page is slow, we get emails based on settings, so we'll know when the app is slow, which will help us boost scalability. ### 10. Ya is really god **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Graph and all detailing provide by app dynamics its really good **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** It's not about dislike but company can more focus on UX **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database slow queries ### 11. One stop solution for all your metrics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Detailed performance metrics of application **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Nothing. Everything looks good. Don't see any dislikes **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Detailed method calls , health metrics and time taking of each invocation ### 12. Best product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sadaf Y. | Information Technology Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Everything is good about it. Performance analysis is easier. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Noting to dislike about the product. A everything is good. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives great results using Insights and has many dasboards that you can take data to use for analytics. ### 13. AppDyanmics - Enterprise Apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The ability to monitor each request and response insights seamlessly without much integration effort **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Android SDK is a bit complex to integrate and has many dependencies **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a hard time determining bottlenecks for app in production AppDynamics will help to identify backend problems specially when integrating with multiple servers that require different authentication ways and it will spot where exactly the problem, also it helps to find where journeys are failing due to problems in frontend or backend ### 14. Excellent for metrics and tracing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The ease of use, detailed analysis and clear telemetry **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Effective Costing can be considered for startups **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Alerting and monitoring ### 15. Best APM tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** End to End monitoring which made everything at one place. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppDynamics is expensive than any other tool. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** APM metrics Website monitoring ### 16. I works with AppDymanics since 2015 in many companies in Brazil and EUA **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cosme C. | Creator, Organizer and Co-author Jornada Ágil Arquitetura, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Analytics feature and Network Visibility **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** The support needs to be better, almost of problems that we found and depends on the AppD Support we spent a ton of time. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Troubleshooting and Performance in our applications ### 17. Appdynamics Market Leaders in APM Solutions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rebin P. | Service Operation Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Single monitoring tool with all monitoring features like BTs,Transaction snapshots, RCA, DB, Log, Hardware, Application, End user, Analytics monitoring. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Many types of agents which makes the things complex and time consuming to implement and maintaining. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to troubleshoot the issue in application in a very quick time, so it reduces outage time in production. In Lower environment it helps for performance tuning. And business metrics gives us add on values. ### 18. Monitor all Your business application real time . **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** I like the real user monitoring feature and addrum.js feature to check third party calls initiator the best , I also like the alerts and charts and integration with SNOW for automatic ticketing. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Slot swapping feature in azure web apps dosent work and there is a bug for this issue. after deployment the prod slot doesn't reflect in controller **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Slot swap issue and addruj.js initiaor issue for some third parties ### 19. Best Application Monitoring Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robin B. | IT Anaylst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppD drill down each method where it call, show CPU usage, diskspace, logs, time duration of each call. Every thing which application team needs to monitor. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** little bit delay of 2-3 sec but it wont bother much. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** NA **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looking for high CPU usage and time duration of SQL call. This will help us to debug product issue and the SQL query which was taking time to process. ### 20. Great Tool For Monitoring My Applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patricia R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Wide breadth of services and function coupled with firs class customer services. We jumped into AppD right out of the box, and it has been a welcomed and relatively easy tool to add to our belt. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Some of the data that I need gets lost on all of the functions. Curse of the blessing, I guess. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** As I have started developing our own systems and web applications internally, it has become essential that I have consistently capable tools for monitoring the effectiveness and engagement of my apps. AppDynamics has provided that capability and much more. ### 21. Our customers like AppDynamics application and transaction visibility. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fitra A. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Application and transaction visibility, and also the dashboard. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Cloud infrastructure discovery needs to be improved. Containers monitoring needs to be improved as well. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly application performance issue. ### 22. It has been really helpful. The support team is always available to help. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The controller dashboard and its metrics **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Limited support for monitoring kubernetes **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Its a pretty handy tool if you’re looking for monitoring and gathering metrics **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are monitoring our application under stress test and with the help of appdynamics controller are able to identify root which component or piece of code requires fixing ### 23. #1 Network and Application Monitoring System. Now part of giant Cisco. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Network monitoring give us end to end visibility and it has adoption of AIOps through an ecosystem of best-in-class technologies. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** So far i didn't any issues. I am happy using AppDynamics. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** I found that AppDynamics helps me to monitor my network in a more efficient way. It offers detailed data, it has a light load on the server, it helps to find issue easily since it has clear visibility and it constantly monitors the stability and the performance of the networks. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** It can isolate the network performance issues. I have clear visibility of network as well as application. ### 24. The phrase "Digital Eyes" is already in English. It typically refers to digital or electronic visual systems, such as cameras or digital imaging technology. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** 1. Graph representation of calls 2. Overview of transactions 3. Connection and navigation between different levels 4. Monitoring of synthetic processes 5. Monitoring of end-user activity 6. Notifications **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** 1. Dashboard and its controls 2. No linking between applications in the transaction snapshots 3. Reporting 4. Limit for BT 5. Machine agent is not providing network-related alerts 6. License consumption dashboard **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** 1. All your applications are listed with their technology stack. 2. Monitoring is enabled with AppDynamics using Application, Machine, and Network agents to provide a 360-degree view. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Application Performance and identifying critical issues. 2. Business Strategies 3. Proactive support 4. Preventive monitoring ### 25. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** It has so many options and once you've got to know all the pages and buttons it's easy to use. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Sometimes hard where to find what, also because of the many clickable options. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly latency and error issues within our applications. Appdynamics sends us an alert and so we can fix the issue before real problems start to happen. ### 26. Great tool for faster RCA **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranil C. | S, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The UI is intuitive and simple to use.Appdynamics is easy to deploy. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** It should be available as SAAS.Heard about other tools which are available as SaaS. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visibility incase of any issues in production. We have received faster RCA for the issues. ### 27. AppDynamic is the best application performance management system available in market. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Shipbuilding | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The best feature of AppDynamics I considered of Code-Level visibility on business application to diogenitic root level issues. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Difficult to say dislike any features of AppDynamics, few of features are having less functionality and hope by the time will improve. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Its a best product in the market to monitor you real time applications. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well monitored trend database performance. ### 28. AppDynamics is a great product. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** This is very good tool in terms of finding out the latency in System and also we can drill down in connection pooling and other network related stuff. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Nothing as such . Very good product..... **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Yes, It is very helpful tool for application scalability and other application performance. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving Application latency issues specially and find out the Queries/DB/connection issue respectively. ### 29. Making Dashboards **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Dashboards! We can make them for all types of problems and level of detail **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** People are gravitating to the solution and we have to adjust our operations fir more informed stakeholders. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Great support and great tool **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Current tool can not monitor queues. Also upgrading existing tool requires skill set we have to relearn. ### 30. Great at APM and Tracing **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben N. | Cloud Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Great at APM and Tracing, the best tool with the best history! **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** SaaS is the limitation we've faced, removing the hardware spend of onprem kit is out #1 task this year. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** be careful with the costs, but then go crazy with what you've got. It's great! **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracing in K8s is solved by AppD ### 31. Very helpful insights provided to monitor applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rudra M. | NexJ CRM Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Status of servers at any point of time in the past. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppDynamics can be more user friendly to monitor application. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** This is the best application performance monitoring tool. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application health can be rectified before it turns critical. ### 32. Benifits of AppD **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** User friendly and very clear interface to understand flow. Many components you can configure to monitor at a same time. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Collection of log need to increase as currently limited log of application can be fetch. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have all applications are configured to monitor real time data and issue to make 100% availablity of application. ### 33. Great APM tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chandra T. | Performance Test Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** its ability to drill down and pinpoint to the performance issues **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Insights can be better improved, sometimes its tedious to navigate **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Highly recommend this tool **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to resolve performance bottlenecks tied to production SLAs. Using this tool we were able to meet the SLAs we had with the client. ### 34. Great tool for complete performance and trace monitoring **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivansh S. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Appdynamics is easy to setup and shows complete trace **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I found it working as expected, liked it **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used AppDynamics as a POC to find performance issues in our DEV application and it was able to show us list of transactions where we are losing most of the time ### 35. AppDynamics is excellent for Drilling down performance issues **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** the very intuitive interface and its easyness to understand **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** sometimes the dashboards can get a little clunky and busy **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** there is a performance issues experienced between systems and API that we need to resolve. AppDynamics helped us realize where the focus of our investigation should be and made the whole investigation easier ### 36. Easy and helpful **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh D. | Assistant Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Debugging issues Health monitoring of servers Connection pooling information Query stuck info **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Nothing that I dislike. Works good for me **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in debugging issues and also monitoring server health. ### 37. All in one monitoring solutions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** APM, Synthetic monitoring, BT, Server monitoring, Alerting, Healthrules, Dashboards, Analytics, Data collectors, Various metrics, Flow maps. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** EUM. Does not scale with a big platform. Limitation of monitoring 2000 pages. Terminated server metrics not available. It's permanently wiped out. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reducing client reported incidents with the use of monitoring and alerting. Helping clients with dashboards for easy understanding of the various integrations and transactions with pictorial dashboards. Useful in RCA post-incident analysis. Website performance analysis. Analysis of app errors in various layers. Synthetic monitroing ### 38. AppDynamics is a great tool for Application and Infrastructure monitoring **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Overarll satisfied with Application Performance and Infrastructure monitoring Step by Step guidelines for setup were very useful **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Nothing really, but pricing can be reviewed **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Do consider your business requirements and you can opt to try it and decide yourself **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous Application Performance Stats help to debug day to day issue and can have detail insights which saves time ### 39. A great alternative to New Relics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Easy to set up, powerful monitoring tool for apps and servers. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** The extra plugins like ActiveMQ is harder to setup **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Expensive tools like New Relic. With affordable tool like AppDynamics we can now have monitoring for our staging platform too. ### 40. Appdynamics Monitoring end to end **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** It can monitor any cloud , and also it is capable of anomaly detection **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** still to master in some areas as end to end monitoring **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Day to Day BAU issues and code related blocks ### 41. Tool for monitoring applications with amazing features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Appdynamic is the best tool for monitoring applications in a effective way. It tell me about the working of applications and errors so that I can work on them to make it more perfect. It gives real time alerts to me according to my requirements. It has lots of features which helps me to solve every error easily. It uses APM in server's performance monitoring.Its website monitoring is very helpful in improving them. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** According to me there is nothing to dislike in this tool as its GUI is an interface which is simple to use and understand . It helps me a lot in managing my projects in a organized way. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Highly recommended to everyone as it is the best platform for monitoring applications in a well organized and effective way. It's user friendly interface make our work more easier. Their every update makes it more easier to use. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Appdynamic tell me about the activities of user's so that I can make changes in my application according to user's need. It gives me a complete track of capacity, speed and abilitys with which our software works. It helps me in finding the error in my projects and in fixing them. It provides a good customer support services. It helps me in improving user's experience regarding my projects. ### 42. AppDynamics an Excellent Tool for Reactive and Proactive Application Monitoring **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** DevOps CI/CD integration. Customer Service. UI. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Long lead time to upskill. Once properly trained then relatively easy to use **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Issues through test cycles. Trends in application performance. Root Cause Analysis ### 43. Appdynamics review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash B. | AppDynamics Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Great Application monitoring suit to accomplish end to end visibility. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I can do betterments in licensing module. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking key business applications and invoking ops team with great insights. ### 44. Great profiling tool with application insights and dashboards **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Dashboards for application, business and operations teams, ease of access to create these Dynamic baselining Visibility into application code for performance bottlenecks **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Sampling of data in frequent intervals, log analysis can be improved Synthetic monitoring can be improved **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** granular root causes of issues, application visibility in production ### 45. Very good APM tool just need to improve user interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Padma A. | SME, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Analytics, RUM, Data Collectors, DB Monitoring **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Need to make more user friendly interface and dashboard **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application performance issues via transaction snapshots ### 46. APPD really helps in knowing the flow of business transactions and analyzing the issue quickly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Creating Dashboards, Knowing the flow of Business transactions **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I loved everything as of now. Still doing more R &D everyday **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Would defininetly recommend this to others. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Knowing which microservice went down and creating alerts and knowing health status of all applications with response time in single page. ### 47. AppDynamics **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Easy of use and easy to setup moniotring agents **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Nit easy to setup monitoring for Tableau Application **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring alerts ### 48. Awesome experience with APM tools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Service based monitoring with transaction **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** RUM is the least helpful. Please make it simple **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Please make it user intuitive and easy for setup **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Service based monitoring and at a single time I can see the transction ### 49. AppDynamics Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The level of detail, Dashboard creation option **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** A bit on the slower side while loading at the beginning **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Server Health Check related issues on a daily basis It is very much user friendly for analysis ### 50. Powerful Enterprise APM Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Transaction Score, Baselining, Flowmaps. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Admin GUI needs better useability. Certain features lack detailed RBAC like http request policies. GUI preload is slow. **Recommendations to others considering Splunk AppDynamics:** Prepare app teams for learning engagements and full professional services upon rollout. It is most successful when business practice includes regular appdynamics instrumentation optimization **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Decreased MTTR, code level visibility into slowdowns, dashboarding for trends, established baselines ## 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=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-11+09%3A45%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=70aee84f-971d-4553-958d-ca2e41d6a626&secure%5Btoken%5D=8ec313d823203a8f66900d03fc90a86e7d5ea0039eb08b2445fb2206e0d09cd8&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 (1,231 reviews) - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (713 reviews) - [IBM Instana](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (468 reviews)