We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and AppDynamics based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is the recommended choice over AppDynamics due to its cost-effectiveness, seamless integration with Microsoft technologies, and customizable out-of-the-box functionalities. AppDynamics, while offering various valuable features, is pricey, has a steep learning curve, and lacks a satisfactory end-user experience. Azure Monitor is praised for its application insights, troubleshooting capabilities, ease of configuration and maintenance, and proactive infrastructure information, resulting in a positive ROI.
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"The solution saves time and cost."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"You can scale the product."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"When you have high stress of visits I do not know if you are more stress because of the amount of visits or because you have to wait eternal 60 seconds to find out it things are going well or you already have mess."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"An area that has room for improvement on the CR and ERP would be the addition of monitoring of the internal solution. For example, you can monitor the day-to-day and everything in the transactions with AppDynamics, but there's also a lot going on in the kernel itself that you cannot monitor. The automation needs to improve as well. As it stands, a lot of customization needs to happen before you can use AppDynamics."
"It could do with more than one data centre/multiple AWS accounts in a pane of glass. Also, improved scalability to large environments would be helpful."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. 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 Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Instana Dynamic APM, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). See our AppDynamics vs. Azure Monitor report.
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