We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager 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."We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"The SAP monitoring element is very helpful."
"Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us... Most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We have highly scalable systems and AppDynamics will help us monitor our load on-prem. Our systems range from simple to the most complex and it gives us the visibility across transactions, in one dashboard."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."
"The solution is very stable. We never had any issues with stability."
"IBM's main value lies in its integration with its own technologies, which can be seen as a benefit in environments where IBM products are extensively used."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"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."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"This solution is expensive."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"The installation process is difficult, requiring continuous support and specialist expertise due to our limited knowledge of managing it effectively."
"The user interface was not good."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is ranked 55th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 2 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is rated 6.6. 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 IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager writes "Integrates well with IBM technologies, but it's outdated and lacks essential features". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is most compared with Dynatrace, IBM Application Performance Management and Azure Monitor. See our AppDynamics vs. IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager report.
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