We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and BMC TrueSight Operations Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: AppDynamics is the preferred choice over BMC TrueSight Operations Management due to its wider range of valuable features such as release management capabilities, building dashboards, and providing business insights. It is also more scalable, stable, and easy to use with the ability to monitor applications of different technologies and manage log files. Despite both products having areas for improvement, AppDynamics has received more positive feedback overall and is considered worth the investment despite its higher pricing model.
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"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."
"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."
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"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."
"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."
"It is breadth. It covers so many different technologies which can roll up into a single console."
"Intelligent solution with a proactive monitoring feature and consolidated dashboard that's stable and easy to scale."
"The event management part of TrueSight Operations Management, in my experience, is probably the best in the market. You have endless flexibility. You can build your own rules, you have the MRL language, and you can implement any kind of logic on the alerts. It may be correlation, abstraction, or executing something as a result of the alerts. You have almost the whole range of options available for event management using the available customization."
"I believe that the ease of use and UI is great"
"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is the dashboard presentation server."
"It is a stable solution."
"The fact that they have a very integrated relationship with Sentry Software, the Knowledge Module, is valuable... The richest feature for us is the number of Knowledge Modules that we can load into the product to add breadth of service to the customer. It enables us to move up the operational stack from hardware, to operating system, to application, and to cloud... That enables us to provide one pane of glass over all those layers - hardware, OS, app, and cloud."
"The most valuable features of BMC TrueSight Operations Management are the blackouts and event management."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"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."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"The one piece that I would love to see is a general-purpose, configurable agent which would be a framework that you can deploy on anything, whether it be Java or anything else. It would allow you to easily deploy it on a platform that they support."
"The pricing could be better."
"Deployment requires lots of resources (servers). It has too many consoles."
"One of the things that the TrueSight environment is missing is some of the HA abilities. The data collection server called the ISM doesn't really have the HA functionality or workload balancing. It was missing from the previous product as well. It's missing redundancy."
"The stability of BMC TrueSight Operations Management needs improvement. My organization's infrastructure is vast and implemented based on BMC recommendations, but the solution needs to be optimized for large-capacity infrastructure."
"The dashboard and performance graphs should include a way to automatically schedule and export reports."
"I definitely would like to see more improvement in the self-diagnostics. I need to know when anything is not working or collecting, long before our customer finds it."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could improve the reporting."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 17th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 49 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while BMC TrueSight Operations Management is rated 8.2. 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 BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix and SCOM. See our AppDynamics vs. BMC TrueSight Operations Management report.
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