We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and SCOM 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 ability to check parameters for microservice applications is most valuable. It is important for me. I can manually create new business transactions for applications and individually monitor business transactions. I can also use a lot of extensions. It has a lot of extensions to monitor other third-party applications, such as NoSQL applications, memory cache applications, Kafka applications, and Couchbase applications. It is very useful. We are also using the end-user monitoring site to follow all end-user activities. It is important for us to check the errors on the customer site."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"It's easy to use."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"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 dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"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."
"The infrastructure is not as good as other solutions."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"The price could be improved."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while SCOM 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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