# 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 **automation capabilities** of AppDynamics, making integration with ITSM tools like ServiceNow seamless. (1 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integration with cloud environments** , enhancing monitoring for critical enterprise applications. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of integration** with other tools, enhancing their monitoring experience across various environments. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** with ITSM tools like Servicenow, enhancing their monitoring capabilities effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless integrations** with tools like Servicenow, enhancing their monitoring and management capabilities. (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 concerns about **billing issues** , including high renewal costs and slow support timelines post-acquisition. (1 reviews) - Users are concerned about the **high renewal costs** and the slow pace of product enhancements post-acquisition. (1 reviews) - Users face challenges with the **inefficient alert system** leading to delays in addressing product issues after the acquisition. (1 reviews) - Users report **poor customer support** , citing delays in product enhancements and high renewal costs post-Cisco acquisition. (1 reviews) - Users report **high renewal costs** and longer support timelines for Splunk AppDynamics following 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. AppDynamics - A powerful analytics tool for business transactions and monitoring **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brajesh S. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppDynamics is a very versatile tool that is easy to use and integrate with many 3rd party services from SaaS, Cloud services and other data monitoring tools. It is useful in detecting and monitoring problematic transactions to enhance the productivity of our business. Configuration of servers, analytics,metrics,alerts,etc is easy with appdynamics. Frequently used by application engineers and data analysts in the team to monitor outliers. It is easy to implement with other monitoring and alert solutions like Cloudwatch, Dynatrace,etc. Customer support is very helpful and is available 24 x 7 in a week. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** There are a lot of benefits of using Appdynamics but few points need some attention like - i. Costs are high for large business organizations. ii. Competitors are giving same services at competitive cost. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** AppDynamics has made a great contribution to our logistics and supply chain industries by detecting the problematic transactions out of the millions of transactions that are running in real time for shipments related data on the production environment, thereby reducing the losses. ### 2. Silver Bullet for Enterprise Applications Performance Monitoring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** RaviShankar S. | Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2025 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** AppDynamics is a great Application Performance Monitoring Tool used by Global Fortune500 Companies to monitor their mission critical Enterprise Applications which are running in onpremise infrastructure and Multi Cloud environments. Customers can Easily Integrate with downstream products like ITSM Ticketing Tools like Servicenow. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Support Timelines, Product enhancements, bugs take more time after Cisco Acquistion, Renewal Costs are high **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application Performance monitoring, Digital User Experience, Improve the MTTR,MTBF ### 3. Appdynamics is best monitering tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sudarsan R. | Information Technology Officer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Appdynamics is best tool to debug issues. 1.we can check long running queries for all the time you can select specific time and debug what are the queries taking long time. 2.you can check application logs high utilizations 3.it will show SQL I'd along with SQL information so that you can tune your queries 4.it will show grafical representation of how your database and application behaviour **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** There is no dislikes I felt it will take time to know the full appdynamics behaviour **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Like when process is long running than expected we can go to appdynamics and findout the exact time and it will show the query as well so that we can tune the query it will help to reduce the SQL performance ### 4. APM and Infrastructure Monitoring with AppDynamics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj B. | Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** One of the Best tool for APM and Infrastructure monitoring in Observability and monitoring. using daily for monitoring. Monitoring get easy after using AppDynamics. we can monitor our enviroment with the many ways in AppDynamics. we can setup the alerts with AI. we are monitoring real time event data. we can monitor the logs and metrics with the more granular ways. How our website is performing it's not a matter but why it's failing it's important to us. that's why appdynamics is there for us to give more cleaity and more performance. no need to go here and there in one view we'll get everything. One thing main they have active customer support we'll ask they re there for us to solve our queries. we can integrate with many software tool and third party tools like aws and azure. Easy to implementation for any infra agents and cloud services. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Nothing to dislike AppDynamics is the powerfull tool for monitoring applications and infrastructure. Everything on It's way. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving almost every problem related to monitoring. when your site is not performing well we'll get the granular data with the logs and traces where our application is failing. we are getting Real time data so we can setup the alerts for it for we'll get notifications before it reaches to the our customers. we can create custom dashboards for ddeply understanding data. we can explore logs and metrices data. we can monitor the traces for each transaction. so it's overall benefitial while monitoring the infra and APM applications. ### 5. Amazing tool to monitor application performance over an extended period of time. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meghan J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** I can observe the reaction of the infrastructure with a simple click of a button; the user "clicks," that is, completes the weekly/monthly reports in a matter of minutes rather than hours or days. We were able to observe the proportion of people that visited/clicked on the device, the time of day, and their delivery point. The interface is straightforward and easy to use, gives total visibility into application performance (Application Monitoring), database performance, and infrastructure performance from one day to one year, and delivers a wealth of information that can be utilized to swiftly remedy a problem. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Although the interface is simple to use, it can be difficult to access essential information fast. It is strongly advised that a newcomer go through a training session before using this software, as several aspects of it still utilize flash. It is possible that queries across applications with the same URL will not be found, but give it some time and it should operate as planned. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** This platform allows you to see key metrics of any "online store/service" in a single panel. In today's digital economy, where more and more people are adopting the "cloud," which has a very high price, it is fantastic to be able to "see" in real time not only the performance of your infrastructure but also the performance of users and applications and allows you to know EXACTLY where the change is needed. I use it every day to track the following in SQL server: SQL statements or stored procedures that utilize the majority of system resources, procedure statistics, SQL statements, and SQL query plans. ### 6. The best advanced monitoring and APM tool available. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fannie W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** It has one of the finest features: it is simple to define the alert threshold based on the baseline of all metrics, and it is simple to lower the RCA of the application code during the problem. It offers several unique features that I haven't seen on other platforms, and the UI/UX is simple and straightforward. I enjoy how simple it is to setup and how many functions are accessible. This provides us with limitless opportunities to improve IT response and get deeper business insights. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** The JavaScript monitoring library must be manually injected into the application code; if the application code is amended, the JavaScript code must also be updated. It appears to be difficult to get started without basic training; the user interface is simple to use, but using the features is not as simple or intuitive as it appears; there is a lot to learn, and there are some irregularities in functioning. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using AppDynamics to monitor and alert a multi-region cloud-based application, and you can completely observe the entire network bandwidth and application data flow across computers. The goal is to identify possible platform issues and discover anomalies in error and user traffic. One of our aims is to enhance monitoring and alerting so that we can be more proactive and decrease user-reported issues, we want to go into business information and start giving value to the team outside of IT once we're solid. ### 7. Best APM solution for enterprise **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** Out of the box transaction detection Dynamics flowmap and advance APM capabilities **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** Unable to delete metrics from front end Agent Upgrades has to be done manually,No air upgrade feature from controller. **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides full call graph in transaction snapshot reducing MTTR ### 8. Good product for manageability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The kind of automation that it provides is really good, the feature of deep drive into a specific issue makes it a good product **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I think there are no such points to mention here **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business critical issues and needs ### 9. The best choice for app developers and online retailers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacobo S. | Digital Performance Marketing Teamhead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** is a good option for to optimize digital processes in terms of bussines and catalogs updating for ecommerce, My team loves it and saved us a lot hours of manual labor **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** each actualization sometimes is hard to manage and affects the integrations with other platforms in many times it would be great if the updates can be more friendly for the users in terms of UI and UX **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** optimizing processes and time savings! with this my team resolves many processes on time record and help us to improve many manual tasks regarding apps and also for data understanding ### 10. UI is fairly intuitive and integration is also fairly easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vignesh K. | Senior Engineer - Software Quality, Consumer Goods, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Splunk AppDynamics?** The graphics showing the flow of network traffic between our various monitored servers is great. **What do you dislike about Splunk AppDynamics?** I guess I really can't state a plausible con **What problems is Splunk AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to monitor the server side and the client side performance metric. ## 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/splunk-appdynamics-review-993578?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-04-28+20%3A50%3A54+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=3d9cdf57-cb3f-49b3-8bac-86d306fa4c34&secure%5Btoken%5D=053bc47e3ba74080d5c5feba53bfbba173b07e9bfbb4fee452a0799cd97918c5&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 (1,230 reviews) - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (688 reviews) - [IBM Instana](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (462 reviews)