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.
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"The AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"Before we moved the code to AppDynamics, we had to compare the agile process and also had to make sure that they're following the standards."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"Installation and configuration can be very tough. An average user without specialized knowledge can't do this. You need to have DevOps and QA teams handle it. During installation, a lot of customers get stuck trying to track the database or the API part, and they have to contact customer support."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"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."
"The scalability must be improved."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"Its stability could be even better."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 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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