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.
"The SAP monitoring element is very helpful."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"We constantly need to improve our alert mechanism because we get a lot of false-positive alerts. These are not real errors. In addition, for end-user monitoring, sometimes, we are not able to catch all user activities. Because of not being able to follow the user activity from the start to the end, we are missing out on the performance issues."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"Its stability could be even better."
"A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"The scalability must be improved."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 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 Grafana. See our AppDynamics vs. Prometheus report.
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