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    Muhammad Zeeshan Siddiqui

Monitoring has improved banking app performance and now quickly identifies transaction bottlenecks

  • March 31, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

In the financial sector, banks primarily use Splunk AppDynamics for monitoring their digital apps, such as mobile banking and internet banking applications. These client-facing applications are the primary usage of this tool.

The main use case with Splunk AppDynamics is infrastructure monitoring. End user monitoring is also considered, but infrastructure is the main component.

What is most valuable?

The main benefit is that for application performance, sometimes banks face issues related to databases or performance problems. Splunk AppDynamics helps them identify the root cause. Sometimes external calls going to services such as NADRA in Pakistan or other verification services face delays in getting responses from their side. These types of issues are easily identified, and they can pinpoint where the problem lies.

AI-based features were checked in Splunk AppDynamics. The feature is helpful, but unfortunately, the financial sector is not using the full feature cloud version. Mostly deployment is on-premises.

End-user monitoring (EUM) is another area that customers are normally interested in, and it is very helpful.

Saving time is definitely the main point with Splunk AppDynamics for quickly resolving problems. Whenever they are facing an issue, they quickly identify the root cause and can proceed with fixing it. Sometimes if performance issues arise, they can pinpoint where the problem is. These things help with better performance and customer experience is actually better. This definitely helps them to get more financial benefits. If the users and customers are comfortable and happy with the banking apps, they are more loyal to that particular bank. Everyone now, almost all banks, are looking for APM tools. Initially, three or four years back, people were not considering this tool as one of the essential components for their infrastructure, but now everyone is looking for these types of tools.

What needs improvement?

In terms of improvement potential for Splunk AppDynamics, there is one point that competitors are exploiting, which is the smart agent type of thing. Dynatrace is saying they have a single agent for all types of applications, which is easy to deploy. Splunk AppDynamics still requires different agents for different applications. Splunk AppDynamics has added the feature of the smart agent, but it is not very effective, as my engineers informed. They still need different agents and community-based agents to manage the different applications. Another challenge we are facing is that for some legacy applications, such as those customized applications developed by customers or their local software partners that are built on C++ or other languages, we face issues in monitoring these applications because we don't have any agent. In some cases, we lose deals just because we are not able to monitor the application developed in C++. These types of support should be there in Splunk AppDynamics.

From a functionality standpoint, Splunk AppDynamics is good. There may be some improvements required, especially for dashboarding. People are also using Elastic or Grafana for dashboarding, and they find their dashboarding more appropriate in displaying information in reporting or dashboarding. Splunk AppDynamics can focus on enhancing reporting and dashboarding. They could enhance or integrate with Grafana or any other reporting tools. One customer required historical reporting the way other network monitoring tools provide it in PDF format. They have a historical report that they can generate and present to their management. However, in Splunk AppDynamics, the approach is different. If someone wants historical data, the dashboard is dynamic, so they can identify the time slot, and it is the same dashboard that they got. If they go back to historical data, the same dashboard generates the report, taking a snapshot of that dashboard. There is no detailed reporting in PDF or Excel format as other tools provide. This is another area that requires improvement. The reporting should be detailed in PDF format; right now it is the same interface that the customer is getting on the dashboard.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Splunk AppDynamics for three to four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I would rate the stability of Splunk AppDynamics as an 8.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

For the ability to scale and expand with Splunk AppDynamics, I would rate it 7 or 8. Sometimes customers face resource issues because they have to enhance their infrastructure as local logs and local storage fill up quickly, so they have to clean up.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support for Splunk AppDynamics is fine, so I rate it 10. We are not facing any issues.

How was the initial setup?

Initially, the setup process for Splunk AppDynamics is complex, and teams are facing some challenges in the initial setup. However, now that the team is used to it, it does not look very complex. Splunk AppDynamics can focus on making it smoother.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

The main competitors on the market for Splunk AppDynamics are Dynatrace and Elastic.

Still, I think Splunk AppDynamics is better, but slowly and gradually over this last year, I can see that Dynatrace is also gaining penetration in this market. Maybe worldwide, they are also progressing because with every customer now, we are actually facing competition with Dynatrace. Out of four to five customer bases, they are able to get one deal if we are competing in five. Still, we are getting more deals, but they are starting to penetrate into this market.

What other advice do I have?

The features that Splunk AppDynamics is providing are really helpful, but in the Pakistani market especially, it is a costly proposition for the customer. Customers are using third-party tools for security, and Splunk AppDynamics is not very popular here for security.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?


    Rajkumar ReghuVarma

Monitoring has improved proactive issue detection but agent management still needs simplification

  • March 30, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

I am currently supporting Blue Yonder, where I implemented the Splunk AppDynamics solution for EY, Ernst & Young, and now I'm working with international companies, as you may be aware of Blue Yonder. I'm implementing Splunk AppDynamics for Blue Yonder, which has a variety of logistics and supply chain management applications to monitor, serving around 500 plus clients.

What is most valuable?

Predominantly, for this current project, we are using Application Performance Monitoring in Splunk AppDynamics, mainly for the Java instrumentations, as our application is completely based on Java, which helps to identify business transactions, bottlenecks, and also monitor database performance using custom queries.

I find the anomaly detection feature in Splunk AppDynamics quite good, as it was introduced about a year back, and we had enabled it.

Infrastructure monitoring in Splunk AppDynamics is really helping as it allows us to understand overall application performance and any bottlenecks, especially when we implement the machine agent alongside Application Performance Monitoring.

The main benefits from Splunk AppDynamics for my end users, mainly the application team, are that it helps identify bottlenecks proactively and allows for configuration of proper health rules to address issues before they affect customers.

What needs improvement?

I see that the main challenge with Splunk AppDynamics is the management of multiple agents, as installing several agents on a server is a significant hurdle we still face.

Functionality-wise, I would like to see more cognitive solutions in Splunk AppDynamics, ideally with a single agent that can implement policies and provide predictive insights regarding application performance degradation during peak times.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Splunk AppDynamics for almost five to six years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the stability of Splunk AppDynamics an eight, as I have not faced many stability issues with the product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Regarding scalability, I would also rate it an eight, as I have not encountered significant performance issues, especially being in a stable SaaS environment.

How are customer service and support?

With our premium support contract for Splunk AppDynamics, we are very satisfied, receiving consistent support including bi-weekly calls with customer success managers and product specialists.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Currently, people are leaning toward Dynatrace, possibly due to its AI capabilities such as the Davis feature, which offer a single agent concept that is easier to implement and maintain.

How was the initial setup?

For Splunk AppDynamics, the initial setup process I've encountered has been simple since I only increased the scope of what was already established four years ago, and while there is a challenge with multiple agent solutions, the product is generally beneficial.

What about the implementation team?

We purchase Splunk AppDynamics through our vendor, HCL Technologies, as they handle all sales instead of direct from the vendor.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

In my opinion, the main competitor to Splunk AppDynamics in the market is Dynatrace.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?


    Ahmed-KASSAB

Unified asset monitoring has improved on-prem control and strengthened security insights

  • March 26, 2026
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

My usual use cases with Splunk AppDynamics are primarily related to the Innova project, where we collect all assets and prepare a dashboard to display all assets and create reports for management about what assets are in place, their numbers, and their identifications.

We use Splunk AppDynamics for application performance monitoring in on-premises environments because hybrid is not an option for us, as we utilize an OT system located on the client's premises, and we do not use a hybrid or any cloud environment.

We use Splunk AppDynamics primarily for maintenance and support, especially given the current threat landscape. We validate all software and hardware lists approved by the end user and monitor for any recently added assets to ensure compliance with the approved repository.

What is most valuable?

I rate Splunk AppDynamics' line-of-code level troubleshooting feature a perfect 10 out of 10 for diagnosing performance issues, as it is very good.

The codes used for Splunk are very good, understandable, and readable, which is why I give it a high rating.

I find Splunk AppDynamics' Digital Experience Monitoring feature very good because it offers end users complete insights into their network, hardware, and software assets, along with detailed reporting on asset installation, models, and operating systems.

The Secure Application feature in Splunk AppDynamics is valuable because it links to the firewall and reports any incidents or unexpected asset discoveries, thereby preventing unauthorized access or communication within the network.

What needs improvement?

I do not believe there are areas to be improved in Splunk AppDynamics rather than the current situation, but I believe that integrating artificial intelligence and linking the software with other APIs, such as AI or machine learning, would be great.

I wish to improve the AI and machine learning capabilities in the software, which are currently used for top management reporting instead of manual reporting from the system. I believe AI could provide more insights for annual or half-yearly reports and forecast future changes in the asset landscape.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Splunk AppDynamics for approximately two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I give Splunk AppDynamics a 10 out of 10 for stability and reliability since it offers full insights into the software and hardware supply list.

Both stability and reliability are excellent in Splunk AppDynamics, with my assessment reflecting its consistent performance.

I have never experienced any outages with Splunk AppDynamics; it has never stopped working abruptly.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is very good in Splunk AppDynamics as it can accommodate a wide range of asset counts, but it depends on the license schema, which may range from 250 to 10,000 assets.

How are customer service and support?

I normally communicate with the technical support of Splunk AppDynamics for any incidents or issues, but we have not opened any tickets yet. We also have 40 optional support hours committed in our contract.

Currently, I have not communicated with any technical support specialists from Splunk AppDynamics because we are still in the integration phase, but if we face issues during testing, we will use the support hours we have committed.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Before using Splunk AppDynamics, I used an outdated solution, an Excel sheet, to track all assets, software, and hardware, which was challenging compared to the resilience that Splunk AppDynamics' dynamic software provides.

How was the initial setup?

My experience with the initial setup and deployment of Splunk AppDynamics is that it was very easy, with our team installing it in four control centers in less than eight days, which I find to be perfect.

What about the implementation team?

We requested all technical manuals and third-party documentation from Splunk AppDynamics to deliver them to the end user as part of my commitment, ensuring they receive all necessary documentation and training materials.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing and licensing of Splunk AppDynamics are managed by another team called the resource team, and they handle all tool and software lists to provide us with the necessary licenses.

I consider the pricing of Splunk AppDynamics to be mid-range compared to other software, as it operates on a subscription model, and the resource team finds the best prices, ensuring that Splunk AppDynamics is an acceptable option for the end user.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I evaluated other vendors, but we chose Splunk AppDynamics because the customer provided a list of approved software that we were required to procure and install without deviations.

What other advice do I have?

I have experience with IT asset management solutions, specifically with Device42, and also with asset discovery tools such as Splunk AppDynamics and other tools.

I was working in one of the projects in the Western region of Saudi Arabia at Neom city, where it is called the Innova project, and we are using Splunk AppDynamics for technical purposes there.

My role is as a delivery manager, and I am taking care of all software and hardware delivery at GE Vernova, where I have a team of integrators, network engineers, and database engineers. I ensure that everything has been delivered correctly to the end user and customer.

I am not in charge of getting into the technical details, but I follow up on the software names to ensure they are configured and in place, and I see that the automatic asset discovery feature, which automatically detects any additional hardware, is very interesting.

I think Splunk AppDynamics' data collection feature with agents or OpenTelemetry is perfect because it is installed dynamically on all servers and nodes, and all agents respond quickly to the server or master station where Splunk AppDynamics is installed, providing great insights into hardware and software discovery.

Both stability and reliability are excellent in Splunk AppDynamics, with my assessment reflecting its consistent performance.

The alerting feature greatly impacts end-user experience since it is user-friendly and the end users are well-trained by GE, making them capable of understanding and operating the software without complications.


    CanselÖzcan

Monitoring has unified performance, security, and business insight for complex applications

  • March 05, 2026
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

Splunk AppDynamics allows us to understand the mean time to resolution and decrease it by easily understanding the dependency of the full application flow map. For root cause analysis and other hidden aspects, we can see how code quality performs. SQL queries can be easily evaluated for quality, and when code quality is not good, we can identify slowness in specific classes and methods. We can see which parts of methods and SQL queries are facing slowness issues. After that, we can develop and change code, modify database queries, and easily see in the product environment without needing to debug facilities. We can see in real time whether code changes are affecting the system positively or negatively. There are many different advantages, and we can separate proactive and reactive sides.

When we collect different method parameters with the essentials of monitoring APM tools, we can easily combine business and operational development cycles in a single pane. For example, when development teams make process improvements to code to add new features to transactions, we can easily see how this feature affects customer experiences as performance metrics. If we can collect this kind of data, we can also easily combine business and operation metrics. For example, with a loan application from the customer side, such as a bank customer making a loan application over their mobile or internet banking application site, we can easily see how many successful transactions occur in real time from a business perspective, not just from the performance side. If we can collect these metrics, we can combine all performance and business metrics in a single pane, giving customer sites a very different and big picture view.

Splunk AppDynamics works for Java, .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, and PHP applications. We also work with some customers using SecureApp features, and customer feedback has been really valuable for us. From my customers' experience with this feature, the feedback is really positive. In the software development lifecycle, penetration testing or security testing before getting a project into live production environment is a very important process. You have to conduct penetration testing before going live with your project. However, this kind of penetration testing is a bit reactive and offline because you only perform this penetration testing from a synthetic point of view, for example weekly, monthly, or quarterly. With Splunk AppDynamics SecureApp solution, we can easily see our application's vulnerabilities, attacks, and exploits in real time. We can also see any vulnerability, even zero-day attacks, easily after they occur. This is a really cool and differentiating feature, though it is a very new feature in the APM market, almost two years old. Because of that, it is not well-known, but when we demonstrate it to customers in POC or demo sessions, most customers are impressed and want to try it in POC. After POC, some customers want to buy this feature while getting the APM solutions as well.

We can monitor what kind of vulnerabilities exist in the code and can easily show the business risk in the environment by making a business score, not relying on MITRE or CVE codes. The scoring also works from a business perspective. For example, if we have one vulnerability that may be medium severity, our internal scoring mechanism increases the business risk if the application touches databases or other inside applications. If the application is not communicating with other applications, databases, or other sources, the business risk may be lower than the other example because of the application's touching points. This is a really cool feature. We are not only reporting these vulnerabilities, but we are also blocking these attacks in real time. For example, when a Log4j2 vulnerability occurs on the system or any zero-day attacks happen, Splunk AppDynamics easily tags and understands this kind of attacks. If desired, it can easily block the application's attacks from the APM perspective. This is a really game-changer in my opinion.

What is most valuable?

I think one of the really strongest features of Splunk AppDynamics is the end-user experience monitoring. We have a really differentiated capability over our competitors. We can easily adapt our solution to the customer's application, internet banking solutions, or IoT devices all over the world. For example, when you get a new Volvo from any Volvo shop, that car has a built-in Splunk AppDynamics light agent to track their connected car applications. To give a specific example, Audi, Volvo, and four years ago BMW also use Splunk AppDynamics light agents to monitor IoT devices and connected car applications. Mercedes may have this kind of agreement as well. In summary, we can easily monitor mobile devices, including Android and iOS, browser-based applications, and also IoT devices. For example, in Turkey, I personally use IoT monitoring with my customers. We work with banks, and most customers monitor their ATM devices and POS devices via Splunk AppDynamics agents. I have personally implemented the IoT agent or Splunk AppDynamics agent into ATM devices and POS devices, as well as for some cinema companies' kiosk systems.

What needs improvement?

I can mention two different things. First, Splunk AppDynamics is mostly compared with the Dynatrace solution because they are a really good solution. They offer on-premises options as well. I know Datadog is another good solution, but it only works with SaaS solutions. New Relic and Grafana are also good solutions, but Splunk AppDynamics and Dynatrace are the only on-premises options in the marketplace. Because of that, I want to compare with Dynatrace. Dynatrace has a OneAgent mechanism, while Splunk AppDynamics has a smart agent mechanism. The idea is quite similar, but when you use the Dynatrace OneAgent solution, because you are giving administrator and root rights, it is a bit easier but unsafe. For Splunk AppDynamics, you do not need to give the agent administrator or root privilege, but because of that, its capabilities are a bit limited. I cannot directly say this is a negative thing because it depends on the perspective. For example, if you really stick to security mechanisms, security teams can say that Dynatrace is easy to install and monitor, but from the security perspective, it is terrible and awful because you are giving full administrator and root privileges to Dynatrace. Splunk AppDynamics could improve their installation process, which would be an incredible thing on Splunk AppDynamics' side.

Second, most products, even Dynatrace, Splunk AppDynamics, and Datadog, are always saying they are making AIOps, root cause analysis, and anomaly detection features, but even Splunk AppDynamics, these kinds of features are not working fine because of the nature of the metrics. Most of the customers are not supplying the hygiene of metrics. If you do not supply or make your environment's metrics hygienic, you cannot give the AIOps perspective to customers. The statement that these vendors can make root cause analysis automatically or have automatic detection features and capabilities cannot be truthfully said. To sum this up, this is not only a Splunk AppDynamics problem. From my personal perspective, this is all APM vendors' problem. The features that all these APM vendors need to improve are the AIOps features. These are really at the beginning of the AIOps era. Everyone is talking about AI, and it turns out to be a common hype in the technology market. We may see the real effect of this AIOps era maybe two or three years from today.

For how long have I used the solution?

It is almost at the beginning of the story. When I started with Splunk AppDynamics, there was no acquisition between Splunk and AppDynamics, and AppDynamics was also its own company. This has been 14 years.

What about the implementation team?

Implementation can be divided into two different parts. One part of the implementation process goes over the controller side, which can also be called the control plane side. One engineer is enough to install and prepare within two hours. However, the agent side is a bit more complicated because it depends on the customer's situation. If the customer has more than 100 or 1,000 different servers, mostly in production environments, we need to agree on when we deploy agents because we need to restart their applications. This creates some outages in their production environment. First, we need to agree on the timeline and project plan. It depends on the customer's decision. If we have a chance, at one time, we can also deploy more than 500 different agents at the same time, maybe within half a day, because we have really good playbooks and automation scripts working over Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or different automation tools that we can easily integrate. Implementation is easy, but the agent side depends on the customer's decision based on their project coverage or decision. It can take two days, or maybe two weeks or two months, depending on how big their environment is and how many licenses they get. For example, if they get more than 1,000 licenses for more than 1,000 hosts, it depends on their decision and project plan. It can take two months, one month, three weeks, or two weeks. It is a very variable thing.

What other advice do I have?

I am working for my own business. Previously, I was in my former company, but I quit and built my own company. We are operating in the same area, and nothing has changed significantly in my life.

Over the last 14 years, we have made maybe more than 500 different installations, maybe much more than that. I do not know exactly, but in the last four years, we have prepared our own scripts and playbooks. It is really very simple to build a Splunk AppDynamics platform over the on-premises data center. Even if the customer wants to use the high availability option, if they have a limited environment or limited hardware resources, we can easily build all these components in one server. Because of that, it can be very simple when working only with one server. However, most customers in Turkey, including fintech-based, banking, government, and some really huge enterprises, need to use the high availability options, which means using more than six different separate servers. With our playbook and the solution's flexibility, Splunk AppDynamics is very flexible for this kind of model, and it takes no more than two, three, or four hours.

I would rate this solution an 8 out of 10.


    Nuno Rosa

Legacy observability has improved business resilience but now exposes outdated architecture limits

  • March 03, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

The main use case for Splunk AppDynamics will be legacy application observability.

What is most valuable?

Splunk AppDynamics is useful for helping my clients improve business resilience. If you combine Splunk and AppDynamics, the features missing in AppDynamics can be supplemented by Splunk. By streaming telemetry from AppDynamics into the Splunk data lake, you can apply missing AI analysis and provide better service management and predictive analysis, which helps reduce the meantime to resolution.

Combining Splunk and AppDynamics allows for improved features and predictive analysis by streaming telemetry from AppDynamics to Splunk.

What needs improvement?

None of the features or functions in AppDynamics are very useful or unique nowadays. AppDynamics has stopped in time at least five years ago, so there's nothing unique from Splunk or from AppDynamics nowadays.

The OpenTelemetry part of AppDynamics is not good for a specific reason: AppDynamics is not a native OpenTelemetry. They have collectors that convert OpenTelemetry to be indexed, causing performance problems. Most of the instances of AppDynamics experience outages, especially the larger ones, and I am not happy with that since it cannot cope with current trends.

It is not a question of lacking key functions in AppDynamics; they have all the functions, but the back-end architecture needs a complete update. AppDynamics has existed for many years, and a drastic restructuring is necessary. I have suggested to Cisco or Splunk that they should merge AppDynamics functionalities with Splunk Observability to simplify things.

My thoughts about infrastructure monitoring and the correlation with application performance in AppDynamics is that it is pretty basic with their health rules. It involves human capability to understand the impact on applications, but when it comes to proper observability and root cause analysis, it is non-existent in AppDynamics.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with AppDynamics for ten years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

For stability in Splunk AppDynamics, I would rate it as a six.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Regarding scalability, I would rate it as a five.

How are customer service and support?

I would rate Splunk's vendor support as an eight. While some staff are not as helpful, there are many who are good and provide a lot of help.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I currently still work with Splunk, so I have not moved to another vendor.

How was the initial setup?

The setup process depends on whether it is a SaaS or on-premises solution. For SaaS, which is common, I would say it has mid-difficulty since Splunk does most of the setup, but issues arise with needing multiple agents for each technology, making automation challenging.

What was our ROI?

Regarding pricing for AppDynamics, I would rate it as high cost, but this is primarily because the ROI is very low today rather than the license costs. I work for an MSP and have a massive discount, yet I see better ROI in competitors like Dynatrace, where the benefits to customers are higher.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

In my opinion, the main competitors in the market for Splunk AppDynamics are Dynatrace and DataDog, though I do not even consider them serious competitors anymore.

What other advice do I have?

In my opinion, AppDynamics does not have any AI capabilities at all. Anomaly detection is based on an algorithm and is not AI; it is machine learning, which are two different things. They do provide basic anomaly detection based on metrics, not logs, but there is no large language model implemented in LogicMonitor.

My feedback about Splunk AppDynamics Digital Experience Monitoring is that it is adequate and follows standard Digital Experience Monitoring practices. They allow you to combine data from ThousandEyes into the Digital Experience Monitoring or user monitoring, which is a useful feature that helps with root cause analysis when there is an issue affecting user experience. However, there are no enhanced features; it is pretty much out of the box.

In my opinion, the Security Application feature in AppDynamics is quite good. The DevSecOps section is ahead of their main competitors, but not for long. They offered very good code-level monitoring when they launched, but they have not evolved the product, and competitors like Dynatrace and DataDog are catching up.

My final recommendation for Splunk AppDynamics is to decommission it and merge it with Splunk Observability. I would give it a rating of six out of ten. I would not improve anything in AppDynamics; instead, I would decommission it and prefer the functionalities to be merged with Splunk Observability.

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?


    Indu Sri Jasti

Comprehensive monitoring has improved root-cause detection and supports cost-efficient operations

  • March 03, 2026
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We use Splunk AppDynamics for infrastructure, application, and Kubernetes monitoring, as well as private synthetic agents. We use it for all purposes, including as an extension for log monitoring and every extension. We develop any custom extensions as needed.

At present, I am actively working on a private synthetic agent in Splunk AppDynamics, which we have deployed internally in our IKP platform. I am currently working with that by developing Python Selenium scripting.

I have experience with Splunk AppDynamics' Digital Experience Monitoring, including end-user monitoring. For the functionality part in Splunk AppDynamics, I am comfortable with it.

What is most valuable?

I find all functions valuable in Splunk AppDynamics because I am from the AppDynamics team in my current company. We help with user queries, and the value depends on the use cases, which might be different for each user.

My impression of Splunk AppDynamics' AI-powered anomaly detection is that it functions very well. The anomaly detection gives the exact root cause of what is happening on our server, and for analytics, for every application, we mostly try to configure the analytics to visualize all the things.

Splunk AppDynamics is useful for me and everything is working out fine. Previously, with log monitoring, I might have been a bit unsatisfied with that. As it is integrated with Splunk, that is also very good.

Splunk AppDynamics gives all the metrics that report to AppDynamics, and they work very well and provide precise information from the server. For application performance, it also gives all the business transactions very efficiently. If there are any other things, we can configure them by an extension or manually.

For now, all secure application features in Splunk AppDynamics are good with me. But in the future, I need to go through all of that because while I have experience, it majorly depends on the use cases. I also need to acquire more knowledge on some of the concepts of AppDynamics.

Splunk AppDynamics is very efficient in all those areas. Compared to the cost, it is also very cost-efficient, because that is the main thing for every organization. For all the things concerning metrics, it is also very good for now.

What needs improvement?

I am somewhat aware of the data collection features in Splunk AppDynamics, but for now, I have not worked on it.

For now, Splunk AppDynamics is a very efficient tool. However, we have a slight complexity where for infrastructure we have to go to one agent, for the database we have to go to one agent, and for the application we go to another agent. For applications also, depending on the type and nature of the application, we have to go to different agents. Different agents mean we need to install different agents. This is something I find a bit more complex.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Splunk AppDynamics for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I would rate the stability of Splunk AppDynamics a nine or ten because it gives efficient monitoring.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate the scalability in Splunk AppDynamics an eight.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Before working with Splunk AppDynamics, I was working with Dynatrace and DataDog.

I have been working with Splunk AppDynamics for the past two years. Before, I was working with Dynatrace and DataDog. When I came to Splunk AppDynamics, I found it a bit more complex because for everything, we have to go to different agents. I found this part a bit difficult, but since I have been working with it for two years, I am becoming habituated to it.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

With DataDog, the UI is very simple. If you compare Splunk AppDynamics and DataDog, the UI accessibility and all the things are very simple there. There will be only one agent present where we deploy all the things. The configuration of alerting policies, which you configure in Splunk AppDynamics, are also very easy there.

What other advice do I have?

I can confirm that I am still working with Splunk AppDynamics.

I am using Splunk because it might be different from Cisco to Splunk. For now, everything is good with me. I think Splunk AppDynamics is more evolved, so for now, all things are good with me. My overall rating for this review is nine out of ten.


    Vijaya Vaddadi

Business transaction insights have improved anomaly detection and streamlined incident triage

  • February 19, 2026
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

Splunk AppDynamics is currently being used in my organization for APM, application performance monitoring. We have Java-based and .NET-based agents that fetch the APM metrics onto Splunk AppDynamics. We have a Splunk AppDynamics SaaS offering that is ongoing. A few years ago, approximately two to two and a half years ago, we also used Splunk AppDynamics for platform monitoring and cloud platform monitoring. However, right now, it is mostly APM.

The auto-discovery and anomaly detection features are particularly valuable to us. The baseline variance methodology for anomaly detection in APM monitoring has helped us troubleshoot and triage problems where applications experience high surges of traffic and go down suddenly. This kind of view has been very helpful to us in the past when we ran into issues.

We have used Splunk AppDynamics for business transaction monitoring. The business transactions feature is the feature I applaud the most in Splunk AppDynamics. The business transactions feature has helped us stay current with the trends in traffic. We were able to separate successful transactions from non-successful transactions, such as transactions with 200 error codes and 500 error codes. This capability has been very beneficial to us.

What is most valuable?

I like the view of business transactions timeline that Splunk AppDynamics provides. This view has helped me troubleshoot many production issues. When you select an application, there is a business transactions view that I find very valuable.

The auto-discovery and anomaly detection features are outstanding. The baseline variance methodology for anomaly detection in APM monitoring has helped us troubleshoot and triage problems where applications have high surges of traffic and go down suddenly.

What needs improvement?

I have not used Splunk AppDynamics rigorously in the past one year for platform monitoring. For application monitoring, we are quite satisfied. The reason why we have not used it for platform monitoring is because we have a VMware product called Tanzu, and they do not integrate very well with Tanzu. I think the reason behind this is that VMware has their own monitoring solution and they wanted to promote it, which is a business and political consideration rather than a feature issue. Therefore, I have not explored the various dashboard features of Splunk AppDynamics. I would think Splunk AppDynamics could do a better job in creating out-of-box dashboards for Kubernetes-based cloud applications. This is something I would recommend.

The user interface is great and good. If you could provide more out-of-the-box dashboards, as other monitoring systems do, that would be a really good addition to the solution.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

For SaaS, we have not experienced stability issues. After we moved to SaaS, we have not had any problems. Earlier, we used to do agent updates, but now that we have moved to SaaS, we no longer need to.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Regarding scalability, I cannot really comment on it. I have not really scaled up recently with our Splunk AppDynamics solution. It has been pretty stagnant. However, based on my interactions, it was pretty decent. I would rate it around six or seven.

How are customer service and support?

We did have to contact technical support regarding a specific issue when we were doing blue-green deployments. When the app changed from blue to green, the app name changes, but the subsequent app name change was not reflected on our Splunk AppDynamics console unless we restarted the app. We worked with the vendor and it turned out the metric being sent out by our nozzle to Splunk AppDynamics was the problem. The vendor was very helpful and we had great vendor interaction whenever we worked with them.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have used Dynatrace, ELK, Elastic APM, Grafana, and Arya. These are all other observability products I have used. When I compare them, I still prefer Splunk AppDynamics for baseline detection, baseline anomaly detection, and business transactions. However, I prefer Grafana dashboards that come out of the box for Kubernetes or virtual machine-based cloud offerings.

How was the initial setup?

The initial deployment of Splunk AppDynamics was easy.

What about the implementation team?

The vendor worked with us hand in hand during the implementation. Overall, we were able to complete it in less than two days.

One person can do the deployment as it is not that complex. Once we have the template and configuration everything set, it flows pretty smoothly.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We do not use OpenTelemetry.

What other advice do I have?

We have not used Splunk AppDynamics for any code reviewing.

I have not used logins and checkouts for business transactions.

I have never tried using it in diagnosing any performance issues.

I am not aware of the pricing as that is above my level of involvement.

My overall review rating for Splunk AppDynamics is eight out of ten.


    reviewer2801307

Monitoring has delivered deep query insights and protects critical website transactions

  • February 05, 2026
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

I use Splunk AppDynamics as our monitoring tool, and it has been effectively used in the last five years to identify major issues and rectify them without causing a major impact to the website.

What is most valuable?

Splunk AppDynamics tells us what the top 10 queries are which are actually contributing to the load on the database, and it gives us the view of what exactly the query does, whether it uses more DB CPU or is contributing to the roll-up contention on the database. These details provide great insights, making it one of the good features from Splunk AppDynamics.

What needs improvement?

When it comes to the front end with my Node.js and React.js applications, it doesn't capture much of the details. The improvements I made were mainly around the Java agent side in our app layer, but it was lacking detailed information on the front-end layer. This is a disadvantage, and it could be improved from Splunk AppDynamics' perspective.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with this solution for the last five years.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It has a cost associated with it, but it is scalable only from a scalability perspective. It is scalable.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I have two different types of technologies used in my project. One of the projects was using a different monitoring tool called Dynatrace, a major competitor for Splunk AppDynamics. Discussions were going on whether I wanted to replace Splunk AppDynamics with Dynatrace, and a decision was made to replace Dynatrace with Splunk AppDynamics because of the capability it has with custom metrics and Java agents. However, discussions are now ongoing about potentially replacing Splunk AppDynamics with Dynatrace. I am using these two major tools in my ecosystem: Splunk AppDynamics and Dynatrace.

What other advice do I have?

I monitor all the business transactions such as basket and add to basket via Splunk AppDynamics. I have set up and diagnosed those transactions.

For the others, they get captured as part of the catch-all transaction itself. In case I need them to be investigated, I use filters to identify the transaction specific to the particular BT.

I have not used auto-discovery as a tool such as analytics and the tracing, trace component, and diagnostic traces much. However, I use historical data to understand where exactly the issue is and try to rectify it.

I have not used the anomaly detection and root cause features.

I have not used troubleshooting as a feature.

Regarding Digital Experience Monitoring, I will lose the limit, causing licensing issues. I identified what pages and applications I don't want to monitor and removed them to cope with licensing. Going beyond the license means paying additionally.

I was not using the Secure Application feature.

Currently, I am not using an on-premises environment, so I cannot comment more on the on-premises side of things as I am using a cloud-based application in all areas.

My overall rating for Splunk AppDynamics is 9 out of 10.


    Per Eklund

Deep monitoring has improved transaction insight but pricing limits wider deployment

  • January 20, 2026
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

My usual use cases for Splunk AppDynamics involve monitoring application performance issues.

I have used Splunk AppDynamics for business transaction monitoring. It helps us in prioritizing business transactions such as logins or checkouts because we can see the transactions, what problems they have, and what we need to do to fix them.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of Splunk AppDynamics that I have found so far include it being a deep-in monitoring solution for applications such as Java and databases. You can dig into the log information and performance information that is within the application. For a very easy setup, you have all the information that you need.

My impression of Splunk AppDynamics' AI-powered anomaly detection and root cause analysis in diagnosing performance issues is that it works and does the job. It's acceptable.

Regarding Splunk AppDynamics' line-of-code-level troubleshooting feature, specifically in diagnosing performance issues down to specific code lines, it relates to the database agent. The help is quite deep and quite useful. You get the code line error, and you are very fast on track to resolve the problem because you will be pinpointed into the real problem where the real problem is using Splunk AppDynamics for databases, for example. That's quite good.

My experience with the application performance monitoring capabilities of Splunk AppDynamics, particularly in on-premises environments, is that it works well for us. We can see that the best benefit is the service dependency mapping regarding different kinds of services. That's key—dependency mapping.

What needs improvement?

Splunk AppDynamics could be improved or enhanced as they are on track because they have the tools working with OTel. That is one thing I can mention since that has forced us to use other tools to monitor because of the price. Price is the key part here.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Splunk AppDynamics for more than five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Based on my experience, Splunk AppDynamics has been very stable and reliable for us. As I have mentioned, we have run it for over five years, six or seven years I would say, and I think it's very stable with no problems with the agent or the setup.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I do not think we have counted on the scalability because our setup is not so large; it's quite a small setup, and that depends on the cost. We want to expand, but the cost is quite high.

How are customer service and support?

I do not often communicate with the technical support. I think it's one or two times per year or something similar because it's so stable.

Based on my encounters with the technical support, I rate them at least seven, seven to eight. It depends on the technical question that we asked, but I think the support has been quite acceptable, more than acceptable. From my point of view, it's a seven to eight, which is more than acceptable.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Before Splunk AppDynamics, I used a different solution for these use cases.

The previous solution consisted of a number of different kinds of tools; I cannot go into details on that, but we used different kinds of other tools.

How was the initial setup?

I participated in the initial setup and deployment of Splunk AppDynamics.

The process was very straightforward; there were a few components and steps that we documented and added internally because we are using Splunk AppDynamics as a SaaS solution. The setup is quite straightforward. Therefore, the setup is not an issue; it's working as designed.

What about the implementation team?

Splunk AppDynamics provided technical help that assisted us in this process.

What was our ROI?

Regarding whether I have seen any return on investment so far regardless of expenses, I think we can say so because of the problems we had in the past and the fast way we solve problems with the tool. The technical person that is using this is quite happy when they know what to fix.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The overall positive impact and benefits I have seen from using Splunk AppDynamics so far is that the overall function is acceptable. Unfortunately, the setup is quite expensive, which is the bad part of it because I want to spread my agent across the IT landscape, but that's very expensive.

Overall, I consider Splunk AppDynamics an expensive product; it's very expensive.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Before choosing Splunk AppDynamics, I evaluated other options and other vendors.

I chose Splunk AppDynamics instead of the other options I had because of the deep insight you get with agents, especially for the databases and other application frameworks such as Java and .NET. You get quite useful information with a quite easy setup.

What other advice do I have?

I am not using the secure application feature in Splunk AppDynamics.

I don't think we have tested Splunk AppDynamics' digital experience monitoring, so that's nothing.

I would rate this review overall as a six.


    reviewer2788590

Monitoring has improved uptime and troubleshooting while support and log coverage still need work

  • December 17, 2025
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

A main use case for Splunk AppDynamics is monitoring the applications in production environment. We are doing infrastructure monitoring and application monitoring.

For all the applications, we monitor the infrastructure such as CPU, disk, and memory. If there are any issues with CPU, memory, or processes, we send alerts to the teams. Similarly, we do application monitoring for JVM and server availability.

We are using Splunk AppDynamics for troubleshooting predominantly, and sometimes for capacity planning as well.

What is most valuable?

The best feature about Splunk AppDynamics are the Business Transactions. It automatically detects and captures them, which helps most of the application teams.

Whatever the important business transactions are, it automatically captures them and their performance as well. If there are any performance issues, business transactions will help point out exactly where the performance has been degraded. This helps the development team to troubleshoot and rectify if there are any modifications required in their code.

Splunk AppDynamics monitoring is helping our organization. Because of this tool, we have reactive monitoring. Whenever there are any issues, the application will get the ServiceNow ticket. This is the policy in our organization. If the threshold criteria is exceeded, it creates a ticket and assigns it to the application team. The application team investigates that issue, and in that way, we avoid downtime. Apart from that, if there are any application performance issues, with the help of business transactions or memory leak functionality, the development team will be able to drill down that issue and fix it faster than the traditional way.

We have seen application availability increase. There is a twenty-five percent reduction of the application downtime.

With Splunk AppDynamics mapping, it captures the business transactions and provides the feature to add business transactions or eliminate those which are not necessary. This auto-mapping helps most of the applications.

With the help of infrastructure monitoring in Splunk AppDynamics, server availability is one of the key features. It captures the memory, CPU, and disk. These are helping my organization to keep all the applications up and running with minimal downtime.

What needs improvement?

We are looking for some more common extensions and custom extensions. Specifically, we are doing log monitoring, URL monitoring, and port monitoring. We are looking for cloud monitoring if there are any features available in Splunk AppDynamics.

Splunk AppDynamics can be improved specifically by providing the log monitoring feature that is currently not available, centralized log monitoring. I know that is available in Splunk. Apart from that, we are seeking to address a couple of issues in Splunk AppDynamics. Specifically, machine agents are not reporting, or we have to restart our machine agents. Another issue is with disk utilization. For disk utilization, it will automatically detect the mount path, but we have seen for many mount paths, even though they are mounted, the data is not reported in Splunk AppDynamics. If the Splunk AppDynamics tech team fixes these issues, that is going to help significantly. Additionally, there is one more feature regarding how we can do cloud monitoring with the help of Splunk AppDynamics. Regarding the market trending with AI, how will Splunk AppDynamics help with artificial intelligence?

In the technology stack, I believe Python is going to be heavily used in AI applications. I'm not certain about this. We currently monitor Python, but it is not as extensive as Java monitoring. If Splunk AppDynamics provides more information on Python monitoring or artificial intelligence application monitoring, that will be helpful.

Customer support takes time. Whenever we face any issues, we have to open the vendor case and then there will be back and forth happening. I can see there is an opportunity to improve the customer support in Splunk AppDynamics.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Splunk AppDynamics for the last four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not seen any issues with Splunk AppDynamics. It is stable. We haven't seen any outages.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not seen any issues with scalability. We were able to scale up as the number of applications increased.

How are customer service and support?

Customer support takes time. Whenever we face any issues, we have to open the vendor case and then there will be back and forth happening. I can see there is an opportunity to improve the customer support in Splunk AppDynamics.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Earlier we were using some other monitoring tool, and troubleshooting in that monitoring tool was difficult. We switched to Splunk AppDynamics because of the business transaction feature specifically and other customized extensions available.

Before choosing Splunk AppDynamics, we evaluated some other tools as well. Specifically, we tried our hands with the Tivoli monitoring tool. We are still using OpenText as well, which is also a monitoring tool. We have used some other tools as well, but we chose Splunk AppDynamics because of its user-friendly UI and because it is easy to understand.

How was the initial setup?

Splunk AppDynamics is user-friendly and it's easy to monitor applications and troubleshoot. This helps the entire organization.

It requires minimal training to get onboarded for the application team as well as the support team.

What about the implementation team?

Recently we are exploring how Splunk AppDynamics can be integrated with OpenTelemetry, but we are in a very initial stage.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Depending on the organization's requirement, we will definitely recommend Splunk AppDynamics because of its features, specifically all the custom extensions, and to maintain the application uptime. Splunk AppDynamics will help. It requires minimal training to get onboarded for the application team as well as the support team.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I think with the current era, we can see Splunk AppDynamics being a costlier tool. Most of our clients have shown an inclination toward open source tools, such as DataDog. Many applications and many organizations are using Grafana, and there are other tools available, so they are exploring that possibility because of the pricing.

What other advice do I have?

There were a few issues that we have noticed with Splunk AppDynamics. Data is not reporting, and custom extensions are not readily available. That is why I have chosen seven out of ten.

This metric is not currently available on top of my head.

I believe you have covered all the points, and I am satisfied. My overall review rating for Splunk AppDynamics is seven out of ten.