We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Honeycomb.io based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The initial setup is simple."
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"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 AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first screen you see."
"Installation and configuration can be very tough. An average user without specialized knowledge can't do this. You need to have DevOps and QA teams handle it. During installation, a lot of customers get stuck trying to track the database or the API part, and they have to contact customer support."
"This solution is expensive."
"I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"Its resiliency can be improved. We're told that the best we can do with an on-prem solution is to have a hot standby that requires a manual switchover. So, it is a do-it-yourself Ikea model of maintaining data consistency between two servers, without having low balance or failover considerations for an on-prem solution."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 36th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Honeycomb.io is rated 8.0. 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 Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Datadog, Chronosphere and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver).
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