We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, and SCOM 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."The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"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."
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to take a report, and in particular, a visual, and link it to actual application performance and then the consequences. This means you can show how an incident or action has an effect on the business."
"Measurement of response time"
"It is very useful and helpful with the analysis of historical performance data."
"Now, we know we have a problem, because there is a primary layer of alerting or metrics monitoring put in place, that is the good part."
"Cross-platform business transaction tracing supports the ability to monitor end-to-end performance across the stack, providing granular insight into customer experience KPIs, which are a critical success factor for organizations."
"We make custom dashboards for our development areas so they can understand how busy traffic affects their application with traffic. They can see how traffic directly affects their application in positive or negative ways."
"In terms of stability, it has been stable so far."
"The APM tool allows us to monitor performance of that application, where are the pain points, where are the slowdowns, to focus on where we can fix those."
"This application pulls data in 15 seconds. You can imagine the enormous amount of data which streams through."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"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."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The stability has been great."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"It's easy to use."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"More native support for other hardware is needed because having to install various extensions and perform extra setup for different devices is really challenging, and not as easy or straightforward as it is in other products."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"This solution is expensive."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"It needs strengthening in the database tiers."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"A CA APM agent takes a lot of memory. That is one disadvantage. If you configure CA APM correctly it will still consume around 15 to 20 percent of memory."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive and address support tickets more quickly."
"I would like to see intelligence, deep intelligence or deep analytics."
"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."
"The interface is getting a little old."
"Dashboards need to be improved in order to make them self-explanatory."
"Support could be much better."
"Java Console uses too much memory."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
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