We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and InfoVista 5View NetFlow 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."The initial setup is simple."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"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."
"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."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."
"The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"InfoVista 5View NetFlow allows us to control the application layer and manage API connections, i.e. Facebook logins or whatever other third-party API services we require."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"A little bit better documentation on the details is needed because this subject is not easy sometimes to understand, which limits the capability of the software."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is ranked 63rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is rated 0.0. 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 InfoVista 5View NetFlow writes "Great for service discovery and load balancing and enables us to monitor the traffic flow". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas InfoVista 5View NetFlow is most compared with Catchpoint.
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