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.
"Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"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."
"In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"It is an efficient solution."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"At this time, we don't have much visibility on the virtual environment, monitoring, and all other things. We have visibility only for database monitoring, and we have noticed performance impact when deploying database agents on the database server. We got to know this from AppDynamics support also that we should not deploy database agents from the database server. When agents are deployed on the same server and the database is monitored from there, we are not getting database server metrics. Therefore, we don't have those insights, and sometimes, we struggle because of that. They can improve this functionality so that we do not have a performance impact, and we can deploy anywhere. This would help us a lot. In terms of end-user monitoring, currently, it is not working for us because there are some complexities. It is a little complicated, and it takes a little bit of time to understand where you need to make changes. It would be very helpful if they can provide some template designs for end-user monitoring. When our servers are running on VMs, we don't get many insights from the VM side. I don't know whether it is possible to have visibility beyond the database, server, and application and whether there are some features where we can deploy AppDynamics on VMs as well. Such functionality would give us more control over storage, VM, OS, and database. It will also provide complete visibility of our hardware and software."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"This solution is expensive."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"If you want to collect details of metrics, you should be able to write a query for it directly. I want the product to offer better queries for the metrics."
"The scalability must be improved."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 154 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 Apache SkyWalking. See our AppDynamics vs. Prometheus report.
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