About Splunk APM

Splunk APM is an application performance monitoring solution within Splunk Observability Cloud. It provides full-fidelity distributed tracing that captures 100% of traces without sampling, AI-directed troubleshooting via Tag Spotlight, auto-generated service maps, AlwaysOn code profiling, and business workflow monitoring. Built on OpenTelemetry standards, it supports hybrid environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Now part of Cisco following the $28B acquisition in 2024.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Full-fidelity tracing stores 100% of traces — no sampling gaps
Strong AI-assisted troubleshooting with Tag Spotlight and service maps
OpenTelemetry native — no vendor lock-in for instrumentation
Unified platform correlating APM, infra, logs, and profiling data
Enterprise-grade with Cisco backing and massive scale support

Cons

Key Features

NoSample full-fidelity tracing capturing 100% of distributed traces

Auto-generated service dependency maps with AI root cause indicators

Tag Spotlight for AI-powered troubleshooting across trace attributes

AlwaysOn CPU and memory profiling for Java, .NET, and Node.js

Business Workflows to monitor logical service groups like checkout or login

OpenTelemetry native instrumentation — vendor agnostic

Trace Analyzer for searching any trace by tags, errors, or latency

Pricing

Infrastructure

$15/host/month

Infrastructure monitoring
Metrics and dashboards
200+ integrations

App & Infrastructure

$60/host/month

Splunk APM