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ScienceLogic vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 11, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.5
ScienceLogic enhances service quality, reduces incidents, and strengthens brand reputation, making it valuable for enterprises despite initial costs.
Sentiment score
7.2
Splunk AppDynamics improved productivity, software quality, and customer satisfaction, offering significant operational benefits despite its cost.
The return on investment is fair but often challenged by medium-sized businesses who may question its adequacy.
It's very hard to find ROI because we are currently focused only on the on-premises applications.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.8
ScienceLogic's support team is praised for professionalism and expertise, despite occasional delays, ensuring quick resolutions and customer satisfaction.
Sentiment score
7.3
Splunk AppDynamics' customer service is responsive and customer-focused, though some users note delays and variable technical expertise.
Problems with Skylar may require longer wait times due to limited resource expertise.
I received excellent support from ScienceLogic.
AppDynamics is much more helpful.
We got a contact, an account manager, to work directly with for technical support.
The customer service and support are helpful and responsive.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
ScienceLogic effectively handles global scalability, despite some hardware challenges, and supports enterprise growth with customizable automation features.
Sentiment score
7.4
Splunk AppDynamics is scalable and suitable for enterprises, though some encounter configuration issues and licensing costs may impact perceptions.
We have reached maximum capacity in our tier, and extending capacity has not been cost-effective from Splunk's perspective.
I did not find any Docker solution available with it, and a separate instance has to be installed.
We have tried it with a maximum of 500 concurrent users, and it provided all the required information.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
ScienceLogic is stable and scalable, though occasional bugs occur during upgrades; users rate its stability between six and nine.
Sentiment score
7.7
Splunk AppDynamics is praised for stability and reliability, with minor issues efficiently resolved, ensuring user satisfaction across environments.
Stability should relate to whether the platform fails, stops working, or breaks.
It is necessary to conduct appropriate testing before deploying them in production to prevent potential outages.
I can rate it nine out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

ScienceLogic needs better reporting, user interface, vendor support, simpler integration, improved API, and efficient application monitoring for enterprises.
The Splunk AppDynamics UI is complex, lacking mobile support and integration ease, with network visibility and documentation issues.
While some other companies have easier APIs, using this solution demands significant expertise.
If the knowledge for implementation could be spread through articles, it would reduce this dependency.
Integrating observability and APM monitoring into the overall portfolio would be beneficial.
Splunk AppDynamics does not support the complete MELT framework, which includes metrics, events, logging, and tracing for the entire stack.
If AppDynamics could develop a means to monitor without an agent, it could significantly improve application performance and reduce potential problems.
A good integration with Splunk would be very interesting, as Splunk is a good product for logs, and that part is currently missing in Splunk AppDynamics.
 

Setup Cost

ScienceLogic offers flexible yet potentially high pricing, starting at $25K, with costs based on device count and features.
AppDynamics is costly but valuable, requiring careful assessment and negotiation for better pricing compared to alternatives like Dynatrace or Datadog.
It could be cheaper.
ScienceLogic is not that expensive and is cost-effective overall.
Customers have to pay a premium price, however, they receive considerable value from the product.
All these solutions at the moment are cheap, but it is like paying for insurance; you pay insurance to avoid major damage.
We find its pricing reasonable and competitive.
 

Valuable Features

ScienceLogic provides scalable, customizable monitoring with advanced analytics and integration, enhancing service delivery through intuitive and flexible solutions.
Splunk AppDynamics users appreciate its easy interface and features for performance monitoring, real-time alerts, and detailed diagnostics.
Notably, its automation features, such as Runbook action, enable domain experts like me to execute one-click automation solutions, which contributes significantly to reducing MTTR.
The solution excels in three areas: application monitoring, server monitoring, and network performance monitoring.
The CMDB update and the automatic CMDB update are valuable.
The feature that I appreciate in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is the intuitive and user-friendly dynamic mapping it creates for workflows.
What I like the most about Splunk AppDynamics is the end-to-end observability for the application, along with traces.
The baseline of all metrics in the Splunk AppDynamics database is very interesting. It can send alarms or alerts when the database baseline is not correct.
 

Categories and Ranking

ScienceLogic
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
22nd
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (7th), Unified Communications Monitoring (1st), Network Monitoring Software (25th), Server Monitoring (12th), Cloud Monitoring Software (18th), AIOps (7th)
Splunk AppDynamics
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
4th
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
247
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (3rd), Mobile APM (2nd), Container Monitoring (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of ScienceLogic is 1.8%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk AppDynamics is 3.2%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

GauravSingh4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Great integrations, power flow, and good support
They need a little more self-service. Some of the places where there's still a dependency on defense logic. If those could be eliminated, that would be ideal. They've done a fantastic job eliminating a lot of those dependencies and there's a lot of self-service. However, some of the areas where we could have it connect to, for example, Splunk or ServiceNow, in a self-care version versus having to go back to their engineers, that's an area where they could do a little more. There are still a lot of engineers who get involved versus if it's a little more API-driven and self-served dashboard connections. Doing it the other way would just make life easier for users.
Rahul -Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
User-friendly and provides good response time from the end-to-end server
We are not using the alerts as we have different mechanisms called resilience testing or kiosk testing. The DevOps team uses the alerts. During production, they will get alerts when they see the CPU utilization going beyond the 60% or 70% benchmark they have set. AppDynamics and Dynatrace are the only two tools that provide accurate or stable end-to-end response time. These two tools can show you everything that's going on from the back end. If we are doing performance testing or any testing, these two tools can provide us with every detail about what's happening in the back end from the server side that we can't see. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Educational Organization
45%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ScienceLogic?
The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ScienceLogic?
ScienceLogic is not that expensive and is cost-effective overall.
What needs improvement with ScienceLogic?
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