We performed a comparison between Akamai mPulse and AppDynamics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the solutions overall performance. It is very efficient and accurate for our usage."
"Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great."
"I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find."
"After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"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."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"In the next release, I would like to see the possibility of sharing the metric from this solution with other solutions."
"The end-to-end distributor tracing connectivity isn't there."
"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."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"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."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"They need to improve the consolidation of agents for the agent's installation process."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
Akamai mPulse is ranked 53rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews. Akamai mPulse is rated 6.6, while AppDynamics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akamai mPulse writes "Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". Akamai mPulse is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, Datadog and Sentry, whereas AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic. See our Akamai mPulse vs. AppDynamics report.
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