Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities
San Jose APM/full-stack observability acquired by Cisco $3.7B 2017, now in Splunk portfolio post-Cisco's $28B Splunk acquisition 2024; Smart Agent launch 2025 competing with Datadog and Dynatrace for enterprise application monitoring.
AppDynamics is a San Jose, California-based application performance management (APM) and full-stack observability platform — acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017 and integrated into the Splunk Observability portfolio following Cisco's $28 billion acquisition of Splunk in 2024 — providing enterprises with deep insights into application performance, enabling developers and operations teams to trace and diagnose performance issues in real-time across hybrid, cloud, and on-premises environments. With 1,200+ employees globally, AppDynamics serves enterprise customers across financial services, retail, telecommunications, and technology sectors with comprehensive monitoring including APM, infrastructure monitoring, business analytics, digital experience monitoring, and application security — using AI/ML to baseline normal behavior and identify root causes of performance degradation. Founded in 2008 by Jyoti Bansal.
Incident management and operations cloud with $470M revenue serving 26K customers; AIOps alert correlation and automated runbooks for on-call engineering and SRE teams.
PagerDuty is an operations cloud and incident management platform helping engineering and IT teams detect, respond to, and learn from digital disruptions — automating the alerting, escalation, and on-call management that keeps websites, apps, and digital infrastructure running. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by Andrew Michaels and Alex Solomon and listed on NYSE, PagerDuty generates approximately $470 million in annual revenue serving over 26,000 customers including most Fortune 500 companies.
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