We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, and Dynatrace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic and others in Container Monitoring."It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"Crash analytics goes down to the level of code you need to check."
"It is very useful and helpful with the analysis of historical performance data."
"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."
"With the new feature CA Team Center is much easier to view the information of my user experience, with this unified vision, it was even practical for lay users to use the tool"
"It's a very stable product."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"The way these tools show the information is very useful. this is a tool that records information from Java and .NET applications, and obtain information about how many times an method has been call in a period of time (usually 30 sec), how many times respond in this span of time or is delayed or stall."
"Dynatrace has great training available. It is easy for everybody to use. Anybody can go out to YouTube, watch a video, and figure out how to use the piece that they need."
"Some of the troubleshooting features for development, the PurePath technology in AppMon, are valuable. The dashboarding gives us some good insight into some fluctuations in some of the application areas."
"Since we moved to OneAgent, we are much quicker to address live incidents and problems that occur in our systems."
"The server monitoring is very accurate in this tool. We are able to prevent many critical Incidents."
"For me, the most valuable feature of this solution is that deep dive that we get out of the AppMon product with the PurePath technology, and the way that the PurePath stack works."
"Dynatrace is a single platform. It has all these different tools but they are actually all baked into the OneAgent technology. Within that OneAgent... you have the different tool sets. You have threat analysis, memory dumps, Java analysis, the database statements, and so on. It's all included in this OneAgent. So the management is actually quite easy."
"This tool has been essential for monitoring our systems, gathering all performance data, and helping to quickly resolve difficult problems affecting our customers ability to process their work through our systems."
"Dynatrace has an auto-baseline and uses AI to monitor the performance of each API. The response time is related to the baseline."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"The training on the dashboards that is provided could be a little bit better, as could the use cases. They should have some good examples out there. As it is right now, I had to scour YouTube to find some stuff."
"AppDynamics is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"Its resiliency can be improved. We're told that the best we can do with an on-prem solution is to have a hot standby that requires a manual switchover. So, it is a do-it-yourself Ikea model of maintaining data consistency between two servers, without having low balance or failover considerations for an on-prem solution."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"The APM upgrade procedure is a bit complicated with compatibility issues which can emerge like between agents and EM/Collectors."
"The front-end representation should match other competitors such as AppDynamics."
"Java Console uses too much memory."
"The stability could be more reliable."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"The reason it's not a ten is because they don't focus enough on improving over time like other competitors do who have a more modern and complete tool."
"Upgradability to it is a project instead of a patch. If it was actually an automated process to where it just fed updates to our product that would be great. Now, we have to spin up an effort to actually upgrade the solution."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive and address support tickets more quickly."
"The scalability is there, but it is a headache when you do a lot of stuff and when you need to compare a lot of servers and do a lot of things. The scalability is very difficult to maintain."
"Needs more compatibility of platforms out-of-the-box."
"I would say that this solution's reports are lacking a little bit, and because of this, you have to rely on API to fetch and pull data. I think they could have done a bit of a better job by providing a more user-friendly search from a reporting perspective."
"Improvements are needed in the navigation and timeframe selection when browsing problems."
"Either use less system resources and be faster or use more resources to pre-compute the PurePath on recent X minutes of data"
"Enterprise application monitoring for synthetic, as is, only captures http/https transactions."
"The Web UI can be slow and hard to understand."
"AppMon is lacking the AI that can be found in Dynatrace Managed."
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