We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE 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's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"The most valuable feature is that it is in line with the traffic. It already captures the raw traffic itself and then filters it, giving us the correct image. Some other companies may just extract what they think is valuable from the traffic itself. nGeniusONE is in line."
"We've saved a lot of time in triaging. We have found root cause identities on packet captures and have been able to feed that information back to a specific vendor, because a lot of our technology is emerging. So, we're able to give that feedback to our vendors and have them solve the problems that they need to fix, and they have the evidence to do so."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The speed that you can get from the top of a problem all the way down to the packet layer of troubleshooting analysis."
"We build application dashboards and performance indexes for locations."
"The stability of this product is ok."
"It gives me the MOS, latency, and jitter."
"From the standpoint of VoLTE and related things, it's providing visibility into the network and how it operates."
"I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"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."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"Its initial setup process is complicated."
"I would like to see improvement in the user experience. It's hard to manage it. We need a dedicated, highly-qualified person, compared to similar tools. Obviously, it's in a higher bracket, salary-wise. That's something the NETSCOUT team needs to focus on. It's a completely niche-skill technology, where we need to have the skills to manage, maintain, and deploy it."
"It could have an easier to understand interface."
"NETSCOUT nGeniusONE can improve the detection of what area of the infrastructure could be having an issue, such as an application, server, or network. It needs to find evidence of a fault."
"Initially, we were having a lot of issues with bugs when using version 6.1.1. There were a lot of problems with the dashboard causing confusion. We worked with our SE and the NETSCOUT engineering team to fix the visibility with the data. There should be a patch release to fix this issue. However, this seems to be working fine for us right now after the 6.2.2 upgrade."
"The product was lacking for awhile when they did the Arbor acquisition. I was waiting to see more security stuff, which they did eventually add, and is now impressive."
"The feature I am looking for is the Arbor technology, especially to run in parallel with our firewall... It's getting there."
"The dependency mapping is good, but I am hopeful that they will build some type of partnership and relationship with ServiceNow. I want to see NETSCOUT partner with ServiceNow so they can leverage Service Now Discovery and Service Mapping to automate the build of the service dependency mappings inside of nGeniusONE."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is ranked 26th in Network Monitoring Software with 47 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE 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 NETSCOUT nGeniusONE writes "We use it every day for the triaging of events, saving us a lot of time". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, SolarWinds NPM and Pico Corvil Analytics.
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