We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and AppDynamics Database Monitoring based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"I like that AppDynamics allows every organization to have what they want to see, like for my organization, we're able to customize the dashboard to show us details of what we want to see in our transactions."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"It is a stable solution."
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring are you can configure the performance and see in real-time what is exactly happening with the applications. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"You have a live view of what happens when something goes wrong on the production or support side. You don't have to scramble and do guesswork. We can identify the query that creates the bottleneck or slows the performance of the database system. It can give you points on how to debug and fix the system."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that we can see all query times. If a particular query is taking too much time, we can alert it."
"AppDynamics is a good tool that offers excellent out-of-the-box dashboards and application topology."
"The feature that is most valuable to us is the snapshot feature. It allows us to get a snapshot of different SQL scripts that are being executed simultaneously and we can identify everything we need on them."
"The dashboards are very well-defined."
"To be honest, it's a fantastic product."
"The product is stable and the technical support is good."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"The solution could improve the server size for AppDynamics to include middleware products, which is doesn't yet cover. If they add middleware for sophisticated sites, AppDynamics would be the global choice."
"The solution must improve security and setup."
"I would like the solution to be more customizable to meet our client's requirements."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture."
"Stability-wise, we experienced some performance issues when upgrading from 4.4 to 4.5."
"I have found it sometimes a bit difficult to trace the transaction all the way through to the application. I'm not sure if that problem is on the database side or on the application side, but that would be something that I would like to be improved. The traceability from the application to the database, sometimes, is a bit of a challenge. If you're using AppDynamics, with the Java agent, for instance, you need to be able to trace it through."
"The application monitoring needs improvement. It needs to be easier for someone who isn't a proficient developer."
"Based on the user experience feedback that we have had, I think that the most important thing to improve is the availability of the SaaS, the cloud environment."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while AppDynamics Database Monitoring is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while AppDynamics Database Monitoring is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AppDynamics Database Monitoring writes "Good application performance features along with a very simple and tool navigation". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas AppDynamics Database Monitoring is most compared with AWS X-Ray. See our AppDynamics vs. AppDynamics Database Monitoring report.
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