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Evolven vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Evolven
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
25th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk AppDynamics
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
278
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (4th), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Evolven is 1.4%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk AppDynamics is 10.0%, down from 18.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk AppDynamics10.0%
Evolven1.4%
Other88.6%
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

MF
Business Analyst at Swisscom
Provides visualization of risk levels. However, alerting needs improvement.
Our primary use case is operational analytics. It gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before. It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency. Provides visualization of risk levels. Alerting needs improvement. Less than one year.
Shamim Alsharif - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Engineer at TANIM CONSULTING, LLC
Real-time monitoring has improved our banking API performance and supports detailed business transaction analysis
The real-time monitoring is what we can see for anything that is needed in terms of CPU, memory, or the connections or the sessions related. It's real-time monitoring of performance of each of the components, which is what we need and use all the time. It's highly effective, I would say. Infrastructure visibility, transaction monitoring, to check the actual user experience in terms of the response time, MRT and all those things. We do the component monitoring like the API performance and the connections and all those things, but we also do the business process monitoring and business transaction monitoring.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It provides visualization of risk levels."
"It gives insights into a changing landscape, which was not possible before."
"It facilitates infrastructure readiness and consistency."
"We already have examples of an 89% reduction in MTTR for one application and a multitude of examples of money saved in others, including savings of around $150,000 for one particular issue that we were almost set to throw more hardware and software at."
"This is purely an application instrumentation and monitoring tool with good features for business analytics."
"The solution provides good overall application performance and transaction errors which reflect backend health."
"I rate Splunk AppDynamics 10 out of 10."
"It provides great tools for monitoring and managing all the different environments of Dev, QA, and Prod with different needs but from a common interface."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"We are so much faster in responding to issues than we've ever been before."
"AppDynamics gives synopsis information so we're able to at least find out where exactly the problem is."
 

Cons

"Alerting needs improvement."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"It could be integrated with more performance-testing tools for more intensive use."
"We would like to be able to easily use this solution to monitor our Java script based browsers, which are currently blocked by the security settings."
"We're struggling a little bit with the way it auto-configures the various endpoints and how to work it."
"AppDynamics lacks integration with cloud technology. It probably isn't a good fit for emerging enterprises because it's an on-premise solution, and many newer companies are moving to the cloud. AppDynamics' on-premise technology works reasonably well, but it doesn't have cloud features."
"I think they could improve resolution time, as they are fast in response, but they take too much time to fix the problem."
"Sometimes, we do have performance issues on AppDynamics. The metrics take a long time to load."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Pricing is based on the size of the deployment."
"We are looking forward to purchasing the solution on the AWS Marketplace."
"The product is a bit expensive compared to other tools."
"AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring does have licensing cost associated with it."
"The license for AppDynamics is procured by our customers."
"The pricing model for AppDynamics could be better. You have to subscribe to a yearly or a three-year licensing, which isn't very handy. The solution is one of the most expensive in the market today."
"Take into consideration what you get for specific pricing models and how much it costs to add on things you may need later.​"
"We do not have any issues with the price."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
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Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Small Business64
Midsize Enterprise38
Large Enterprise208
 

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