We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Honeycomb.io 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 is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"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."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"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."
"More native support for other hardware is needed because having to install various extensions and perform extra setup for different devices is really challenging, and not as easy or straightforward as it is in other products."
"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."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"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."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 154 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Honeycomb.io 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 Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Chronosphere, New Relic and Sematext Synthetics.
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