We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prometheus is praised for its flexibility, integration capabilities, and affordability as an open-source solution. AppDynamics, on the other hand, is considered expensive, has a high learning curve, and poor end-user experience. Although it offers valuable features, its complex infrastructure is a drawback. Prometheus, however, is reliable, has a fast data storage system, and is highly valued for its flexibility and integration capabilities, making it thew preferred solution.
"I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions."
"Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"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."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The sky is the limit because the solution is a flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"It lets me proactively identify and resolve system issues. This, in terms of, most of the time, really reduces downtime. Because when there are notifications on time when we engage it quickly on time, our downtime is highly reduced. So basically, Prometheus is for monitoring and alerting."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"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."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"The infrastructure is not as good as other solutions."
"Needs more integration with applications suites, like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"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."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"Its stability could be even better."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Apache SkyWalking. See our AppDynamics vs. Prometheus report.
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