We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] 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."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."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"Command center is a new feature that provides agent maintenance and support without involving the application team. It saves lots of time for APM team."
"Being able to pull in and merge the infrastructure and application data."
"I like that it gives you a wide range of data where you can see the application outage response from concurrent locations and the number of stalled jobs."
"Our development cycle has definitely improved as far as the turnaround time on fixes and improvements."
"Proactive snapshots of transactions and all details of a transaction are saved in case of an error."
"Crash analytics goes down to the level of code you need to check."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...there is a very easy way to deal with it by adding more servers to the application."
"We are able to easily and quickly find some of the problems with the applications and coding, and some of the performance problems."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"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 initial setup could be easier."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"We constantly need to improve our alert mechanism because we get a lot of false-positive alerts. These are not real errors. In addition, for end-user monitoring, sometimes, we are not able to catch all user activities. Because of not being able to follow the user activity from the start to the end, we are missing out on the performance issues."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"This solution is expensive."
"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."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"Our users lag how to identify the root cause with this solution. If they could come up with a more user-friendly version, that would be a good thing, since other vendors currently have better features and more user-friendly products than CA APM."
"The area of improvement is related to the areas of application onboarding and instrumentation, where the product has certain shortcomings."
"User Experience is a BIG one. Integration of all of APM components into one swift deployment."
"The integration with CA Spectrum is quite difficult to create, and it is also only one way, only being used to view alarms coming from CA APM."
"The upcoming changes for the deployment process of the agent will help a lot, in that others have gotten to that point first."
"The front-end representation should match other competitors such as AppDynamics."
"We enountered stability issues. They were mitigated by performance tuning within infrastructure."
"The technical support is very poor."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"There are some metrics I'd like to track that are difficult to find or implement into a tracking solution without a lot of manual work."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory."
"The version compatibility needs work."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
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