We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and InfoVista 5View NetFlow 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."Has helped us to increase customer acquisitions and reduce revenue leakage."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"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."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement...It is a very stable solution."
"InfoVista 5View NetFlow allows us to control the application layer and manage API connections, i.e. Facebook logins or whatever other third-party API services we require."
"The infrastructure is not as good as other solutions."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"At this time, we don't have much visibility on the virtual environment, monitoring, and all other things. We have visibility only for database monitoring, and we have noticed performance impact when deploying database agents on the database server. We got to know this from AppDynamics support also that we should not deploy database agents from the database server. When agents are deployed on the same server and the database is monitored from there, we are not getting database server metrics. Therefore, we don't have those insights, and sometimes, we struggle because of that. They can improve this functionality so that we do not have a performance impact, and we can deploy anywhere. This would help us a lot. In terms of end-user monitoring, currently, it is not working for us because there are some complexities. It is a little complicated, and it takes a little bit of time to understand where you need to make changes. It would be very helpful if they can provide some template designs for end-user monitoring. When our servers are running on VMs, we don't get many insights from the VM side. I don't know whether it is possible to have visibility beyond the database, server, and application and whether there are some features where we can deploy AppDynamics on VMs as well. Such functionality would give us more control over storage, VM, OS, and database. It will also provide complete visibility of our hardware and software."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"A little bit better documentation on the details is needed because this subject is not easy sometimes to understand, which limits the capability of the software."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is ranked 63rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is rated 0.0. 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 InfoVista 5View NetFlow writes "Great for service discovery and load balancing and enables us to monitor the traffic flow". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas InfoVista 5View NetFlow is most compared with Catchpoint.
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