PeerSpot’s crowdsourced user review platform helps technology decision makers around the world to better connect with peers and other independent experts who provide advice without vendor bias.
Our users have ranked these solutions according to their valuable features, and have also discussed where they see room for improvement.
You can read user reviews for the top 10 Application Performance Management solutions here, to help you decide which solution is best for you.
Users compare and give feedback on the APM solutions that they’ve used — based on product reviews, ratings, and comparisons.
#1 Dynatrace
Dynatrace was ranked as the #1 APM Solution of 2021. PeerSpot users give Dynatrace an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Barry P., Manager, Performance Engineering at Medica Health Plans, says that he likes it because “With Dynatrace, we have synthetic checks and real-user monitoring of all of our websites, places where members and providers can interact with us over the web. We monitor the response times of those with Dynatrace, and it's all integrated into one place.” He also mentions that "It has an integration with ServiceNow, which is great. Dynatrace creates tickets for things and its AI finds the root cause. We have integrated that with our ServiceNow to generate events and incidents, so that all of our event management will be done in the ServiceNow Developer.”
According to another reviewer, a user at a financial services firm, "The solution's ability to assess the severity of anomalies based on the actual impact to users and business KPIs is great. It's exactly what we need. The severity impact is based on the users, the availability, and the impact it has on your business.”
Mark K., Senior Director IT at BARBRI Inc, shares that "The Session Replay not only allows us to watch the user in 4K video, but to see the individual steps happening behind the scenes, from a developer perspective. It gives us every single step that a user takes in a session, along with the ability to watch it as a video playback. We can see each call to every server as the user goes through the site. If something is broken or not running optimally, it's going to come up in the Session Replay."
#2 Datadog
Datadog was ranked as #2 for best APM Solutions of 2021.
Reviewers like this Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at Extra Space Storage state that "Datadog has given us near-live visibility across our entire cloud platform.”
Another user named Brian H., Principal Enterprise Systems Engineer at a healthcare company, says "I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings.”
#3 AppDynamics
AppDynamics was ranked as #3 in APM tools. PeerSpot users give AppDynamics an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Sid R., Vice President - Operations & Client Support at Scicom Infrastructure Services, explains how great AppDynamics truly is: "Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications, we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality.”
Another user, a Head Of Information Technology at a mining and metals company, proclaims that the solution is great for finding bottlenecks, offers good stability, and also says that "The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks.”
David G., Systems Engineer at a tech services company, explains "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.”
#4 Aternity
Aternity ranked as the #4 APM tool of 2021.
User Ryan D., Head of Cyber Security Engineering & Oversight at a media company provides some good insight: "The most valuable thing that you get from Aternity is very broad visibility. You get visibility of your network, of your endpoints, of your software usage, your application performance, capacity, in one pane of glass. We had 20 to 30 IT tools, including application performance monitoring, network monitoring, security, endpoint detection, network protection, capacity management, service management — every kind of monitoring you can imagine. But Aternity was always the first place that I turned for anything, because you can see everything in it.”
A Regional Network Manager at a recruiting/HR firm expresses that "Aternity provides metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps, rather than just a few. It does some out-of-the-box monitoring for the Office suite, but you can create custom monitoring for any of your applications, whether a web client or a desktop application.”
#5 New Relic APM
New Relic APM ranked as the #5 APM solution in 2021. PeerSpot users give New Relic APM an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Devendra T., Principal Architect at Shadowfax comments that New Relic has many great features, including a useful service map. He also mentions that "The simplicity of the dashboard is very good.”
Another user, Benjamin M., Product Manager Cloud at Pricer, explains that "Working with the solution is very easy. It's user-friendly.”
#6 ITRS Geneos
ITRS Geneos ranked as #6 of the best APM tools.
One PeerSpot user, a director at a financial services firm, states that “The solution is used across the entire investment banking division, covering environments such as electronic trading, algo-trading, fixed income, FX, etc. It monitors that environment and enables a bank to significantly reduce down time. Although hard to measure, since implementation, we have probably seen some increased stability because of it and we have definitely seen teams a lot more aware of their environment. Consequently, we can be more proactive in challenging and improving previously undetected weaknesses.”
Another reviewer, who is a Senior Enterprise Management Administrator at a financial services firm, shares that "The filtering in the Active Console is exceptional. Depending on the user base, some people don't want to see server-level errors, so we have filters set up in the Managed Entities view, which allow us to filter out things that certain groups don't want to see, while allowing them to see other things. It's a great real-time monitoring solution. And you can draw graphs immediately, right from the Active Console, whether they're current graphs or historical graphs.”
#7 Apica Synthetic
Apica Synethetic ranked as the #7 APM tool for 2021.
Nick M., CTO at GreySnowPoker says "It helps with releases because we monitor them in staging. We can tell if something is critically wrong before it gets into production, e.g., if it was load related or function related and also what was different in the dev stage. It then alerts us straightaway inside of our production monitors once it has been released. Therefore, it has improved how we run our systems since we monitor multiple environments.”
"From our standpoint, there are a number of valuable features. The WebHooks are obviously really great. The alert framework is really good and then the reporting and visualizations that you get from the dashboards is good. Those three areas are primarily what my team's focused on in terms of usage from day to day,” comments Greg A.,IT Director at a financial services firm.
#8 Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor ranked as the #8 APM solution for 2021.
A Manager of Infrastructure at a government firm mentions that beyond Azure Monitor providing real-time monitoring and better network mapping, "The solution is quite stable.”
Another user, a Managing Director at a tech services company, says "We like this searchability and availability of the data”.
And Pradeep S., Chief Technical Officer at a tech services company, explains that "The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use.”
