We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics and others in Mobile APM."Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"From the performance management side, I like everything from business transaction work to tracking. On the database side, we can get a lot of insights from the database. On the server monitoring side, it helped us a lot to find out some of the issues on the VM side because VMs were creating a little trouble for us."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"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."
"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 dashboard allows us to monitor and proactively act upon any breaches in the threshold for our infrastructure."
"The ability to real-time monitor servers and databases without any major drain on application resources is invaluable."
"It eases the investigation process (faster feedback loop with clients), better pro-activity on possible outages (in order to avoid outages), and eases the process of fine tuning allocation of resources to processes."
"Dynatrace gives us and our clients information about all layers and components of their platform, including the most important starting point for us: real-time and historical end user experience."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of application performance."
"This tool helps us gather information from all hosts and services, then cross reference the information."
"It collects and analyses information with AI, which is useful."
"Its AI can tell us when something is wrong, including the impacts and the root cause."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"The ability to track performance of an application or application suite over time is extremely valuable to our business partners and for our application development team with near real time results."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"Needs more integration with applications suites, like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"The UX/UI needs improvement. It is not easy to learn."
"The container platform could include more value-added features."
"The mobile app provided by Dynatrace could be improved, especially the DCR mobile app because it does not have some of the basic functions, like push notifications or even customized reports."
"One of the new features is "impacted users." I would like to see a rate of impacted users. For example, how long has the problem been going on: 100 users in five minutes. Does that mean that in 3 hours if we don't get this solved, we're impacting x number of people? Understanding the rate at which the problem is impacting people would be a cool feature."
"I would like to have the ability to share live data with selected third parties so that they can see how their product is performing for our company."
"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."
"For the manage services, they work on CloudWatch logs and are given CloudWatch logs only. I would like more collaboration with AWS and insight into CloudWatch services. This would be valuable, especially when detecting the fault of the root cause analysis. It would make the process go faster."
"The dashboard tool needs to be improved. We need more options, because the look and feel is too old-fashioned."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"The version compatibility needs work."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace."
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