We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager 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."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."
"In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work."
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"I like that AppDynamics allows every organization to have what they want to see, like for my organization, we're able to customize the dashboard to show us details of what we want to see in our transactions."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"The NeoLoad plugin is awesome, and it gets results from load tests correlated with test scenarios."
"Dynatrace is stable."
"Never seen anything so complex be so simple to install."
"The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management)."
"In terms of explaining to a customer how their data works, it has been a great tool. Instead of trying to draw it out, then hoping that is exactly where the data goes."
"No one else works with security gateways. I am able to configure those perfectly well within the banking and FDIC infrastructure to pass audits."
"We can go back to when a specific user had an issue and trace the entire transaction from the client to the database."
"Dynatrace covers the important tiers and allows us to quickly find trends and root causes in all our critical application lifecycle steps"
"IBM's main value lies in its integration with its own technologies, which can be seen as a benefit in environments where IBM products are extensively used."
"The solution is very stable. We never had any issues with stability."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
"This solution is expensive."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"The integration with PagerDuty is currently broken on mobile."
"One of the features that we are lacking is on the reports side. We don't have much reporting available. And the dashboards. I checked on their blog and they said that they are working on the dashboard front where you can create the dashboards. We do have dashboards available. They said they are bringing in a lot of things there, so I'm looking forward to that, on reports."
"The UX/UI needs improvement. It is not easy to learn."
"Better root cause detection and improve root cause categories. In some cases, the root cause points out only a clue of what has happened."
"It needs .NET core support to the level of Java."
"It definitely needs HA, because we have so many applications that are dependent on AppMon that it has been deemed critical. Any downtime, it just affects so many users. So that's one of our key asks for the future."
"I would love to see Dynatrace get more involved in the security realm. I get badgered by so many endpoint protection companies. It seems like a natural fit to me, that Dynatrace should be playing in that space."
"Right now, for AppMon, the maximum handling load, the transaction per minute, is around 6,500. We had an issue on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, some kind of stability issue for users who could not log in. I want to see an increase in the load, at least to 7,000 or 8,000 transactions per second"
"The installation process is difficult, requiring continuous support and specialist expertise due to our limited knowledge of managing it effectively."
"The user interface was not good."
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