We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and ThousandEyes 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."It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"The SAP monitoring element is very helpful."
"After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"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."
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"An area that has room for improvement on the CR and ERP would be the addition of monitoring of the internal solution. For example, you can monitor the day-to-day and everything in the transactions with AppDynamics, but there's also a lot going on in the kernel itself that you cannot monitor. The automation needs to improve as well. As it stands, a lot of customization needs to happen before you can use AppDynamics."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first screen you see."
"Needs more integration with applications suites, like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"It's an expensive solution."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while ThousandEyes 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and ManageEngine Applications Manager, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Fortinet FortiSIEM.
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