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."It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"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."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement...It is a very stable solution."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"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."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"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."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
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 LogicMonitor.
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