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."Has helped us to increase customer acquisitions and reduce revenue leakage."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"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 flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"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 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."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"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."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The UI could use a little help."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"It's an expensive solution."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
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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