Splunk AppDynamics comparisons

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Splunk AppDynamics is compared head-to-head with Elastic APM, Middleware and Dynatrace Application Monitoring and more: 7 head-to-heads in Application Performance Monitoring, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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Splunk AppDynamics head-to-head

• Splunk AppDynamics vs Elastic APM
• Splunk AppDynamics vs Middleware
• Splunk AppDynamics vs Dynatrace Application Monitoring
• Splunk AppDynamics vs Datadog APM
• Splunk AppDynamics vs IBM Instana Observability
• Splunk AppDynamics vs New Relic APM
• Splunk AppDynamics vs Apache SkyWalking

Splunk AppDynamics vs each of them

#	Tool	Free plan	Paid from	Distributed tracing	Transaction tracing	Dependency mapping	Real user monitoring	Score
4	Splunk AppDynamics	No	$6/unit/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9.1
1	Elastic APM	Yes	$99/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9.4
2	Middleware	Yes	$0.30/GB usage-based	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9.3
3	Dynatrace Application Monitoring	No	$7/device/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9.2
5	Datadog APM	No	$31/unit/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9.0
6	IBM Instana Observability	No	$21.20/unit/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8.9
7	New Relic APM	Yes	$10/user/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8.8
8	Apache SkyWalking	Yes	Free	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8.7

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