We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and AppDynamics based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is the recommended choice over AppDynamics due to its cost-effectiveness, seamless integration with Microsoft technologies, and customizable out-of-the-box functionalities. AppDynamics, while offering various valuable features, is pricey, has a steep learning curve, and lacks a satisfactory end-user experience. Azure Monitor is praised for its application insights, troubleshooting capabilities, ease of configuration and maintenance, and proactive infrastructure information, resulting in a positive ROI.
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."
"The initial setup is simple."
"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"The UI could use a little help."
"There are too many installers available for this 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."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"It needs strengthening in the database tiers."
"The end-user experience is not really good because we can't catch all of the transactions. We only can catch the full stack of flow transactions, but I think that this is caused by the technology they use. If they will catch every transaction, it will cause a very big load on the performance of applications. The monitoring of all transactions needs improvement."
"The integration part in AppDynamics with other systems is an area with a little difficulty, especially when it comes to the configuration area. The integration of AppDynamics with other products takes a lot of time."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The default interface should be improved."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 154 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. 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 Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Instana Dynamic APM, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). See our AppDynamics vs. Azure Monitor report.
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