We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Google Cloud's operations suite is the preferred choice over AppDynamics due to its popular monitoring feature, reliable logging and tracing, and easy-to-use interface. Users recommend enhancements in additional metrics and tools, stability, and automation. The technical support is highly regarded and the setup process is generally simple.
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"It's easy to use."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
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"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
"It could be more stable."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 24th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 10 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0. 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 Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Amazon CloudWatch. See our AppDynamics vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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