We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and AppDynamics based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is the recommended choice over AppDynamics due to its cost-effectiveness, seamless integration with Microsoft technologies, and customizable out-of-the-box functionalities. AppDynamics, while offering various valuable features, is pricey, has a steep learning curve, and lacks a satisfactory end-user experience. Azure Monitor is praised for its application insights, troubleshooting capabilities, ease of configuration and maintenance, and proactive infrastructure information, resulting in a positive ROI.
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to take a report, and in particular, a visual, and link it to actual application performance and then the consequences. This means you can show how an incident or action has an effect on the business."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"have used multiple products like Webex and PRTG. Some features could be added. Azure Monitor should add SMS and APIs. We have very limited access to Azure Monitor. I usually get alerts on my phone when they are integrated with Slack. I am not always available, but my team is. Sometimes, I am traveling and don't have access to my email, but I have Slack and other third-party projects that send me instant messages if a sensor goes down."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. 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 Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Instana Dynamic APM, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). See our AppDynamics vs. Azure Monitor report.
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