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Splunk AppDynamics

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

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What is Splunk AppDynamics?

Optimize hybrid and on-prem application performance with full-stack observability linked to business performance.

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Awards & Recognition

Splunk AppDynamics won the following awards in the Application Performance Management - Enterprise category

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2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

5 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

4 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2022

Splunk AppDynamics Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

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Since last award

96 Plan to Renew

2
Since last award

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Splunk AppDynamics?

3% Negative

7% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Transaction Request Performance

Code Performance Monitoring

Automated Diagnostics

Application Request Tracing

Application Metric Reporting

Error Reporting

Server Monitoring

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Scalability

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

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Splunk AppDynamics Reviews

TamunoBelema A.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Jun 2025

Reliable APM Tool with Room for Innovation

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Splunk AppDynamics from other similar products?

AppDynamics offers strong real-time transaction tracking, a business-centric dashboard interface, and integration flexibility with various cloud platforms, which enhances operational visibility.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its ability to correlate application performance with business metrics in real time gives stakeholders meaningful context for optimization decisions.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The interface can feel cluttered for new users, and the learning curve for advanced features and custom dashboards is relatively steep.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Ensure your team is trained early, and align AppDynamics with your broader observability or AIOps strategy to fully leverage its business transaction monitoring and performance diagnostics.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Jaspreet S.

Role: Operations
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2024

Game changing Realtime Performance Monitoring Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Splunk AppDynamics from other similar products?

1) Real-time monitoring before they impact customers. 2) Fasten the root cause analysis by correlating the business and software KPIs to analyse the performance issues, 3) Capabilities to perform Synthetic monitoring along with Browser real user monitoring.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1) Browser end user monitoring helps to gain the visibility all the way to web browser, mobile and IoT applications. This helps revealing the impact, the browser and network have on the user experience of our applications. 2) Full stack monitoring provides the visibility all the way into our application stack and from the user interface to the database layer.

What do you dislike most about this product?

1) As the sheer volume of data collected by AppDynamics, which sometimes makes it difficult to relate with the actual issue. 2) It has been observed, that in some cases, AppDynamics agents deployed to monitor applications introducing performance degradation leading to slower response times.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

1) Define your Key Performance indicators which are critical for your business. such as end-user browser response times, throughput, error rates etc. 2) Also, if you face challenges in identifying the root cause during outages and use different tools to determine the cause of failure, AppDynamics will significantly enhance the organizational capabilities to monitor, troubleshoot and optimize application, infrastructure and network performance.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Shawn H.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Other
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2024

Cost effectiveness

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Splunk AppDynamics from other similar products?

It provides comprehensive visibility from the user end and seamless integration with Cisco.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Business transaction centric monitoring

What do you dislike most about this product?

Complexity setup, configuration and pricing structure.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Allocate time for setup

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Splunk AppDynamics

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Splunk AppDynamics Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

96 Plan to Renew

2 Since last award

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Splunk AppDynamics?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment Supports one or many deployment models - On-prem, cloud or hybrid hosting of the database system.

Transaction Request Performance Tracking the performance of all web and other transactions within your system.

Code Performance Monitoring Tracking application performance at the code-base level.

Automated Diagnostics Automated diagnostics providing prebuilt workflows for problem detection, correlation of application behavior and performance, and determination of cause.

Application Request Tracing Detail key attributes of application requests and transactions.

Application Metric Reporting Tracking of both custom and basic application framework metrics.

Error Reporting Tracking and automatic notification of alerts or errors within the system.

Server Monitoring Monitor usage and performance of all application dependencies like databases, servers, containers, web services, caching, etc.

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support Monitoring capabilities for cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure ServiceFabric.

Scalability Scalability refers to the transaction size per second / time taken to put a transaction in the block and the time taken to reach a consensus.

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM) Synthetic front-end monitoring simulates user interactions with online applications, including fully scripted transactions.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

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Splunk AppDynamics Reviews

TamunoBelema A.

Reliable APM Tool with Room for Innovation

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Jaspreet S.

Game changing Realtime Performance Monitoring Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Shawn H.

Cost effectiveness

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Transaction Request Performance

Code Performance Monitoring

Automated Diagnostics

Application Request Tracing

Application Metric Reporting

Error Reporting

Server Monitoring

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Scalability

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

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Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

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