We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and AppDynamics based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is the recommended choice over AppDynamics due to its cost-effectiveness, seamless integration with Microsoft technologies, and customizable out-of-the-box functionalities. AppDynamics, while offering various valuable features, is pricey, has a steep learning curve, and lacks a satisfactory end-user experience. Azure Monitor is praised for its application insights, troubleshooting capabilities, ease of configuration and maintenance, and proactive infrastructure information, resulting in a positive ROI.
"The release management capabilities are great."
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"We have been able to monitor our applications more accurately."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"AppDynamics is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"Its resiliency can be improved. We're told that the best we can do with an on-prem solution is to have a hot standby that requires a manual switchover. So, it is a do-it-yourself Ikea model of maintaining data consistency between two servers, without having low balance or failover considerations for an on-prem solution."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. 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 Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Instana Dynamic APM, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). See our AppDynamics vs. Azure Monitor report.
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