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What is Splunk AppDynamics
Splunk AppDynamics is an application performance monitoring (APM) platform used to monitor the health, performance, and business impact of applications and supporting services. It is typically used by SRE/DevOps teams, application owners, and operations teams to troubleshoot incidents, analyze transaction behavior, and track service dependencies across distributed environments. The product uses application agents and instrumentation to capture end-to-end transaction traces, dependency maps, and performance metrics, and it can integrate with broader monitoring and IT operations workflows.
Service dependency mapping
The platform builds application topology and dependency maps from observed traffic and instrumentation. This helps teams understand upstream/downstream impact during incidents and change events. It also supports root-cause workflows by correlating application behavior with dependent services and components.
Strong transaction-level visibility
AppDynamics provides deep visibility into application transactions, including response times, errors, and call paths across tiers. Its agent-based approach supports code-level diagnostics that help teams isolate bottlenecks and regressions. This is useful for troubleshooting complex distributed applications where infrastructure metrics alone are insufficient.
Broad enterprise integrations
AppDynamics commonly integrates with enterprise ITSM, alerting, and CI/CD tooling to fit established operations processes. It supports role-based access and governance features expected in large organizations. These capabilities help standardize monitoring practices across multiple teams and business units.
Licensing and cost complexity
Pricing and packaging can be complex, especially when combining APM with infrastructure, database, or digital experience capabilities. Costs can increase as environments scale (more hosts, containers, services, or higher data volumes). This can require careful instrumentation scoping and data retention planning.
Agent deployment overhead
The agent-based model typically requires coordination with application teams for installation, upgrades, and configuration. In containerized and ephemeral environments, maintaining consistent instrumentation can add operational overhead. Some use cases may require additional tuning to balance data granularity with performance and storage.
Fragmented suite experience
Organizations using multiple observability components may encounter differences in workflows, data models, or UI patterns across modules and integrations. Correlating logs, metrics, traces, and user experience data can require additional configuration and governance. This can slow time-to-value compared with more unified end-to-end implementations.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure Edition | $6 per vCPU/month (billed annually) | Foundational infrastructure diagnostics. Pricing shown is for annual billing (US). |
| Premium Edition | $33 per vCPU/month (billed annually) | Infrastructure + Applications — complete back-end monitoring. |
| Enterprise Edition | $50 per vCPU/month (billed annually) | Back end and business performance monitoring; includes Business Analytics. |
| Enterprise Edition for SAP® Solutions | $95 per vCPU/month (billed annually) | Code-level SAP visibility and performance monitoring. |
Add-ons / Usage-based pricing (official site lists these separately):
- Real User Monitoring (RUM): $0.06 per 1000 tokens per month (billed annually).
- Cisco Secure Application (Application Security): $13.75 per vCPU/month (billed annually).
- Browser Synthetics Monitoring: $12 per test location/month (billed annually).
Notes: Pricing shown on the official AppDynamics/Splunk pages is for annual billing (the AppDynamics page notes a 10% discount off monthly billing for US purchases); monthly billing options and regional pricing are available via sales or the Cisco store; AppDynamics/Splunk also offer volume discounts and custom/enterprise quotes for large deployments.
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Cisco Systems, Inc.
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