We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and BMC TrueSight Operations Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: AppDynamics is the preferred choice over BMC TrueSight Operations Management due to its wider range of valuable features such as release management capabilities, building dashboards, and providing business insights. It is also more scalable, stable, and easy to use with the ability to monitor applications of different technologies and manage log files. Despite both products having areas for improvement, AppDynamics has received more positive feedback overall and is considered worth the investment despite its higher pricing model.
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"The tool is flexible enough to be customized based on customer requirements."
"Intelligent solution with a proactive monitoring feature and consolidated dashboard that's stable and easy to scale."
"We're using native monitoring capabilities for all our server hardware, for visibility for applications, for URLs, for webpage response and accuracy, and for monitoring network throughput in a lot of particular instances. We're using lightweight protocols for pinging, for DNS, for LDAP."
"The ability of this platform to monitor the very diverse assets that we maintain around the world is its most valuable feature... We support a vast array of manufacturers' equipment, like HP, IBM, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi... We can do it all with [this] one [solution]."
"The solution has a very good business event manager tool."
"It provides common administration, and a Single Sign-On Platform with RBAC, which eases the cross launch between multiple tools"
"It is a very stable product."
"The most valuable features of BMC TrueSight Operations Management are the blackouts and event management."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"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."
"I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."
"In a large company of our size, we need multiple people in our company trained. So, I have to take the training classes. Then, I have to go and train the rest of my organization. I would prefer to say to the other people on my team, "Go to this link and..." Or, "Here's a list of training sessions that you can go to which are online and that are free." I think it would help the adoption of their product in the marketplace, personally."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could improve the reporting."
"The stability of BMC TrueSight Operations Management needs improvement. My organization's infrastructure is vast and implemented based on BMC recommendations, but the solution needs to be optimized for large-capacity infrastructure."
"I think the ease of deployment needs to be looked at. It would be great if the deployment was faster and easier."
"The sizing (which is difficult), the maintenance of it and the upgrade paths. This is a difficult area which is not easy to cover, as every client has a different approach of implementing the product."
"More modules for less popular applications and better documentation."
"The solution is a little obsolete."
"I would like to see a little more out-of-the-box event correlation and expanded AIOps type capabilities. Where you can train your artificial intelligence operations to be able to memorize an issue once you encounter one scenario, so if you encounter that same problem, you can get to the root cause very quickly."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 17th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 49 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while BMC TrueSight Operations Management is rated 8.2. 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 BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix and SCOM. See our AppDynamics vs. BMC TrueSight Operations Management report.
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