We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE 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 best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"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."
"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."
"After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"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 most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."
"Before we moved the code to AppDynamics, we had to compare the agile process and also had to make sure that they're following the standards."
"Technical support is helpful."
"We build application dashboards and performance indexes for locations."
"Among the valuable features, if it's TAP'ed well, are the density of the data that you can get and the relatively high veracity or accuracy rate that we see from it."
"The best feature is when we have it connected permanently via TAPs. That enables us to constantly collect data and then we can go back in time... To be able to rewind, back in time, and see the problem as it happened, is very helpful."
"We've saved a lot of time in triaging. We have found root cause identities on packet captures and have been able to feed that information back to a specific vendor, because a lot of our technology is emerging. So, we're able to give that feedback to our vendors and have them solve the problems that they need to fix, and they have the evidence to do so."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It is the ability to collect data and analyze it, especially key performance indicators. This is before a customer would call to the service center to complain that they have had bad coverage or a dropped call."
"The valuable features include packet analysis, packet capture, and [that] it's easy to use."
"The ability of the dashboards is useful for discover, mapping and understanding of application behaviour."
"AppDynamics is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"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."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"NG1 has been stable for a while in our environment - at least we have what we needed. But with nBA, there's a lot of room for improvement."
"NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is a complex product since it deals in areas like network packet brokers and packet analysis, making the tool complicated for end users."
"Trying to set up dashboards is hard to figure out at times, if you don't do it every day. It's not really intuitive to set them all up... If there were a wizard to take us through, step-by-step, creating dashboards and the like, that would be really helpful."
"The GUI has gotten better over time but there could be some improvement in how the GUI is built."
"Some of the filters could be easier to see and to set up. That's the only thing that I've ever had any trouble with."
"I would like more in-depth convergence between all the applications, especially when I look for information through a data mine."
"We would like better end-to-end data flows. This is something that my users always complain about, as they don't know what the data flows are on the network. We would like to know every point along the line."
"The initial deployment is tedious and requires a lot of build, deployment and configuration time. Experience is key to a successful deployment."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is ranked 26th in Network Monitoring Software with 47 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is rated 8.2. 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 NETSCOUT nGeniusONE writes "We use it every day for the triaging of events, saving us a lot of time". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, SolarWinds NPM and Pico Corvil Analytics.
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