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Nastel AutoPilot [EOL] vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 23, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Nastel AutoPilot [EOL]
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk AppDynamics
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
265
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (3rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (6th), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (3rd)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user226614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Head of Performance and Service Metrics at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
You can easily scale it for high message rates, but it's primarily a flow-monitoring tool rather than an APM.
Autopilot is a middleware-centric business transaction monitoring tool that includes a Complex Event Processor (CEP) for transaction data. Architecture AutoPilot Probes are lightweight performance measurement and monitoring tools for live applications that are executed at defined points within the…
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

"Flexible environment"
"Very simple to use and is a very useful tool."
"Nastel is a world-class company that has partnership amongst other positive qualities embedded into its cultural fiber."
"The most valuable feature is the ability for developers to do performance analysis functions by functions, be able to understand response time, and be able to improve code when they need to."
"Setting up the monitoring agents was straightforward."
"We had no issues with scalability, and it was very good for us."
"The pricing is very good, and you get good value, especially if you compare it to DynaTrace."
"After installation of APM, we realized the value within five or ten minutes."
"Splunk AppDynamics helps us in identifying bottlenecks and providing fine-tuning recommendations."
"The product is stable and the technical support is good."
"Definitely, I would recommend this solution for others who are interested in using it for the alerting mechanism."
 

Cons

"Documentation"
"Needs to quickly implement support for all variety of servers."
"Quality Assurance testing for new releases need to be more thorough"
"The pricing for AppDynamics Server Monitoring in Africa and the Middle East is too expensive, so it's very hard to sell it to customers."
"By default, AppDynamics tends to only capture a lot of the high-level stuff, and you can actually go in and manually configure a lot of the lower level stuff manually."
"AppDynamics is really pricey as it requires licenses for every feature."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"I’d like to see something more towards a merger between the dev and the production."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"AppDynamics should add more features to identify in case if there is some thread waiting for something."
"The AppDynamtics on-premises platform is immature, and it does not scale."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an expensive solution."
"It could be cheaper. It's a little cost prohibitive. There are so many features that also show a lot of value, but it’s not always easy to justify the cost."
"AppDynamics is priced on the higher side."
"Take into consideration what you get for specific pricing models and how much it costs to add on things you may need later.​"
"We have purchased a few licenses for AppDynamics Database Monitoring and the price is high."
"The license fee for Application Analytics is in the range of 2.5 million over three years, with extra fees for service contingencies."
"The license for AppDynamics is procured by our customers."
"It would be better if there were more solutions incorporated into the base price. ​"
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
25%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
5%
 

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Small Business56
Midsize Enterprise36
Large Enterprise199
 

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I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten. The solution is highly expensive. Our company pays for the solution on a yearly basis, if we don't add new modules or features to the license, we need ...
 

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