We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: With a wider range of features including alerting for issues, release management capabilities, and business insights, AppDynamics is scalable, stable, and easy to use. It offers the ability to monitor applications of different technologies and manage log files, whereas SolarWinds lacks code-level monitoring of applications and software-defined network monitoring capability. AppDynamics also has better customer support and an optimized dashboard, although it is more expensive.
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"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."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"It is simple to implement and can provide fairly decent Windows-based monitoring, beyond simple SNMP. It is great for monitoring newbies and smaller shops."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"Solarwinds has an open database that allows you to do serious integrations. It doesn't matter which service desk you have, you can implement and integrate it with SolarWinds."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"AppDynamics lacks integration with cloud technology. It probably isn't a good fit for emerging enterprises because it's an on-premise solution, and many newer companies are moving to the cloud. AppDynamics' on-premise technology works reasonably well, but it doesn't have cloud features."
"They need to improve the consolidation of agents for the agent's installation process."
"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."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"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 Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."
"Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 154 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Nagios XI and ServiceNow Discovery. See our AppDynamics vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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