AppDynamics and Prisma Cloud are both popular among users for their valuable features, ease of use, and positive outcomes. While AppDynamics is praised for its detailed analytics and reporting capabilities, Prisma Cloud stands out for its comprehensive security capabilities and automated compliance assessment. Users have noted that the pricing and licensing options for both products are fair and transparent. However, AppDynamics users have highlighted the need for a more intuitive interface and better integration with other systems, while Prisma Cloud users have mentioned the importance of enhancing alerting and reporting functionality.
The summary above is based on 136 interviews we conducted recently with AppDynamics and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"As a pure-play CSPM, it is pretty good. From the data exposure perspective, Prisma Cloud does a fairly good job. Purely from the perspective of reading the conflicts, it is able to highlight any data exposures that I might be having."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability monitoring, serverless access, container runtime features, and Defender."
"Prisma Cloud provides the needed visibility and control regardless of how complex and distributed the cloud environments become."
"The two most valuable features are container security and the capability to discover workloads."
"The visibility on alerts helps you investigate more easily and see details faster."
"It has a feature for customized security policy. I implement it in banking, health insurance, and other sectors, and every organization has its own customized policies and procedures. In Prisma Cloud, you can customize policies, and based on that, you can do monitoring."
"The solution's dashboard looks very user-friendly."
"CSPM is very useful because it gives us good policies and violation alerts."
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"The training on the dashboards that is provided could be a little bit better, as could the use cases. They should have some good examples out there. As it is right now, I had to scour YouTube to find some stuff."
"Prisma Cloud's dashboards should be customizable. That's very important. Other similar solutions are more elastic so you have the power to create customized dashboards. In Prisma Cloud, you cannot do that."
"Prisma Cloud supports generating CSV files, but I would also like it to generate PDF files for reporting."
"A couple of exporting functionalities should be more user-friendly because if I want to export something, I can get a lot of data visible to that particular CSV."
"The information presented in the UI sometimes doesn't look intuitive enough."
"The solution does not currently support servers for GCP."
"The UI could use some improvement; we usually find the information we're looking for, but what fields can be clicked on and what workflow to follow to get the required information is not always evident. Sometimes we're all over the place, clicking around to drill in and uncover the alert and investigation details we're looking for."
"The alignment of Twistlock Defender agents with image repositories needs improvement. These deployed agents have no way of differentiating between on-premise and cloud-based image repositories. If I deploy a Defender agent to secure an on-premise Kubernetes cluster, that agent also tries to scan my ECR image repositories on AWS. So, we have limited options for aligning those Defenders with the repositories that we want them to scan. It is scanning everything rather than giving us the ability to be real granular in choosing which agents can scan which repositories."
"While Prisma provides a lot of visibility, it also creates a ton of work. Most customers that implement Prisma Cloud have thousands of alerts that are urgent."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 82 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks 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 Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security.
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