Observability / APM

Splunk Observability Cloud

Splunk (Cisco)

Cisco is consolidating AppDynamics + Splunk Observability Cloud into one enterprise portfolio; strong full-fidelity (no-sample) tracing heritage from SignalFx.

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Category: Observability / APM
License: Proprietary
Deployment: SaaS
Cost: Enterprise
Free tier: No
Self-host effort: —
Maturity: Incumbent
Popularity: Gartner MQ Leader; AppDynamics heritage

The catch

Two overlapping products under one roof create a confusing, in-transition portfolio; underlying ingest/SVC pricing is famously expensive and the integration story is still settling post-Cisco.

Monitors

ServersMetricsLogsTracesSyntheticsCloudK8s

Capabilities

AlertingDashboardsDistributed tracingAPI

Built for

Enterprise

Ownership
Splunk → Cisco (2024); AppDynamics → Cisco (2017)

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