We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"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."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Gives us the ability to know how our application is performing in real-time."
"Measurement of response time"
"Our development cycle has definitely improved as far as the turnaround time on fixes and improvements."
"JVM memory monitoring and connection pool monitoring are valuable features."
"Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."
"This application pulls data in 15 seconds. You can imagine the enormous amount of data which streams through."
"For the most part, we run constantly without any issue at this point because of APM."
"Attribute decoration is a unique and very powerful feature. We can add meaningful meta information based on our internal demand."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"This solution is expensive."
"It could do with more than one data centre/multiple AWS accounts in a pane of glass. Also, improved scalability to large environments would be helpful."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"The end-user experience is not really good because we can't catch all of the transactions. We only can catch the full stack of flow transactions, but I think that this is caused by the technology they use. If they will catch every transaction, it will cause a very big load on the performance of applications. The monitoring of all transactions needs improvement."
"The product displays some graphics and sometimes we want to have some different metrics in the same graphic but it doesn't display in the same scale, so it's quite complicated to see the metrics. If the product would be able to manage a double scale, it would be perfect."
"With respect to SQL monitoring, it would be nice to have a little more information because it doesn't provide the full statement all of the time."
"You can sell licenses and install the full tool on service, you can show customers how to install, but how to use it and solve issues cannot be done without the experience."
"System incident analysis and performance monitoring need improvement."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"They need to add support for new frameworks, or at least provide a broader guide/perspectives to add them to monitoring specific agents to retrieve metrics with thresholds as a reference to guide the customer as to where they must go to achieve this."
"The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings."
"The solution still needs the administrator of APM to know a lot more to configure and control everything. So it's a headache for the administrator to do the daily jobs."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
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