AppDynamics Database Monitoring Other Advice

Joao Guerra - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Management & Automation Manager at Jeronimo Martins

We have integrated AppDynamics Database Monitoring with ServiceNow and Grafana. We have been trying to integrate it with other ecosystems as it is mandatory nowadays.

I rate it an eight out of ten.

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Gyanesh Rahatekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

AppDynamics Database Monitoring does not require any maintenance. I highly recommend others to use AppDynamics Database Monitoring.

AppDynamics Database Monitoring's end-user experience is very good. The solution's tool navigation is very simple and clear-cut. Also, the error and exception detail AppDynamics Database Monitoring shared are crystal clear.

Overall, I rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring a ten out of ten.

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Vishal Jethnani - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, SRE at Loblaw Companies Limited

I rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring a nine out of ten. 

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KS
Domain Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We’re planning to replace the solution. It is a good tool. Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

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Nuno Rosa - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Infosys

In one of the scenarios, a retail company encountered transaction failure issues. The problem was not with the card or payment system but the database operations. By utilizing AppDynamics, the team traced end-to-end transactions and identified a database latency problem.

Monitoring the entire end-to-end system allows us to pinpoint performance issues in the database. Tracking the user journey helped us identify the issues between the middleware and the database.

The topology view feature helps in effective monitoring. However, this feature was developed six years ago and still needs to be updated. The application needs broader improvements and reshaping for this particular area.

Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases. During development, it integrates seamlessly with the SDLC. It detects and resolves performance issues, ensuring database availability and minimizing downtime.

I rate it an eight out of ten.

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Swapan Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant at Tata Consultancy

If you are talking only from the database perspective, I would recommend AppDyanmics Database. It is very helpful because it gives you more insight. 

Overall, I would rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring a seven out of 10.

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MA
Senior Presales/Business Developement at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The application layer in AppDynamics performs fairly well. However, network monitoring is not at an advanced level. It is mediocre.

People wanting to use the solution must not use it only for database monitoring. It should be used for end-to-end application performance monitoring. If someone has requirements involving applications, observability, and AIOps, they must consider the product. If they need only database monitoring, several other tools are available in the market that are lower in cost and offer a lot of capabilities.

When it comes to end-to-end monitoring, network monitoring also plays a crucial role. It is an area of improvement for AppDynamics. Network monitoring could be better. AppDynamics has acquired a product called ThousandEyes. How well the product grows in the network monitoring space is yet to be seen.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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Nuno Rosa - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Infosys

AppDynamics is a good tool that offers excellent out-of-the-box dashboards and application topology. Even for their competitors, their current technology is unrivaled in these two areas. 

I would rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring an eight out of ten.

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Suresh Gupta - PeerSpot reviewer
VP - Business Excellence at Tata Consultancy

I give AppDynamics Database Monitoring a ten out of ten.

We require five people to maintain the solution.

AppDynamics Database Monitoring only requires users to have a basic understanding of databases.

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JD
Consultant at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

I'm working in an APM implementation company delivering APM solutions from Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, etc.

I'm mainly working with AppDynamics and Dynatrace tools, and my company has an APM tool still under development. I'm working with AppDynamics Database Monitoring.

My company has a mix of customers on AppDynamics Database Monitoring, small, medium, and large enterprises.

Compared to AppDynamics Database Monitoring, I'd go for Dynatrace because it has out-of-the-box features that don't require a separate license. Dynatrace also has a better interface and dashboard than AppDynamics Database Monitoring.

I'd advise anyone who wants to implement AppDynamics Database Monitoring to follow the documentation. It's a straightforward product to use.

My rating for AppDynamics Database Monitoring is seven out of ten.

My company is a partner of AppDynamics Database Monitoring.

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VN
Tester at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In my experience, it's easy to use. There's nothing complex to learn or fear. You can quickly adapt to it without the need for extensive training. That's my advice.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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MP
Head of IT Operations at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We collect user experience feedback from many countries, all over the world.

We have already recommended this product to some of our partners, and they have implemented it based on our advice.

This is a good product, but we still have issues with the cloud and stability.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten, due to stability issues and no feedback from EMEA AppDynamics.

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LM
Technical Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring an eight out of ten.

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RV
Infrastructure Architect -Application Dynamics at Kyndryl

I would tell potential users that AppDynamics Database Monitoring is not just for database monitoring. If you need to monitor your entire application stack, for example, you need to monitor how that website is performing at the backend or how applications are performing. Infrastructure monitoring means everything has to be monitored and is offered in the bundles. 

That's what AppDynamics does. It's like an application performance monitoring solution. If you need to monitor all this and use all these capabilities, then AppDynamics is a very good solution.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give AppDynamics Database Monitoring an eight.

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KJ
Director of Application Performance Monitoring As A Service (MAPS & MSPM) with 11-50 employees

As advice to people considering the solution, I would tell them to scope it out really well and to do a lot of research on their intended application and their business use cases. There may be another, better solution available for their needs.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as a seven. I would rate them at a seven because they definitely have a better product than several other products on the market, they have good functionality, and I think they are fairly affordable. The reason I would not rate them higher is because there are other products on the market that are obviously better solutions that exist right now.  

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DS
Senior Solutions Consultant at VNQ Systems

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

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MM
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I would recommend this solution to other companies. On a scale from one to ten, I would give AppDynamics Database Monitoring a rating of eight. To be honest, it's a fantastic product.

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it_user560532 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

If colleagues looking to implement database monitoring asked me for advice, I would definitely advise them to look at this APM tool, first of all. Then, basically just work with the engineers initially and get self-sufficient with the tool. And spend some time with the tool. If it's a training issue, get some training on the tool itself.

As long as they know their space, they know their infrastructure, they know their database ecosystem, it should be pretty easy.

We use the AppDynamics database monitoring plus the APM on the app side right now.

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Jalpesh Shelar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Analyst at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I recommend choosing Dynatrace over AppDynamics Database Monitoring as it's easier to use. I would rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring seven out of ten.

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LP
Senior Database Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

My advice to others is that AppDynamics Database Monitoring is a very good monitoring tool. It would be a good choice.

I rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring an eight out of ten.

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it_user560469 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Just implement it. I've never seen anything like this, so I would tell everyone, “You should try this.”

One thing that everyone needs to understand: If APM is for their application or not. That's the most important part. If you think that you have a lot of deadlocks, or something is happening with your application, and you're spending months figuring it out, then APM is the only way you can sort this thing out.

I've seen some presentations. They were very impressive. There was one case from healthcare. They were saying that they were investigating an issue for 18 months. They rolled out AppDynamics. In 36 hours, they got their root cause. That's impressive.

I was just doing a UAT for something. We were running some jobs and suddenly everything froze. We went to AppDynamics, and we saw that one query was taking everything on the database. It's very transparent in that way. It's one of the best database monitoring solution I've ever seen.

My company uses other AppDynamics products, but I belong to a different line of business. We are looking into it. We are going to use the machine agent and the app agent, especially the .NET and Java agents.

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VK
Senior Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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PS
Associate Principal Consultant at BRavura

The solution we are using is SaaS-based. The controller is deployed on the cloud, and we have integrated different Linux environments with it. There are a couple of Java agents as well as machine engines and a DB agent that we utilize.

I don't have too much interaction with the teams that handle the solution, so I don't know if I have any advice to give other companies in relation to implementation. I don't have too much exposure when it comes to database monitoring and am not overly familiar with the application itself.

I'd rate it at least a six out of ten based on my experience with the solution so far. I only use limited features for Oracle database monitoring. 

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MM
Senior Performance Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is easy to use and not difficult to configure. I would definitely recommend the solution, I have been working with it for the last five to six years. It's a really good product.

I rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring a seven out of ten.

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AH
Consultant APM et Performance with 10,001+ employees

For me, the first recommendation I would have to other organizations considering implementation would be to have a person or people who have good skills on database monitoring. How AppDynamics works is basically just monitoring the metrics that already exist in the databases. These metrics are really technical metrics, so a company has to have some people that are really specialized in reading them. They need to have a good database administrator or database analyst in place.

I would rate the solution seven out of ten.

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PM
QA Specialist at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

We currently use the on-premises deployment model but we are in the process of moving over to the cloud.

The solution is a good tool. I'd advise others to use the cloud deployment model so that you don't need to worry so much about having enough infrastructure if you you want to scale.

I'd rate it eight out of ten.

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LM
Technical Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We used an on-premises version of the solution.

I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. Technical support hasn't been too impressive so we ended up having to resolve our own issues. There are also a few challenges that we've had from a performance perspective when we upgraded from one version to the next.

That said, I would still recommend the solution.

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AS
Senior IT Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We use the private cloud deployment model.

I would advise new users to not install AppDynamics for their database only. Just the database portion isn't dynamic enough without other portions of the AppDynamics suite.

I would rate all database applications nine out of ten, but I would rate just the database monitoring four out of ten.

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WA
Business Transformation Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I recommend the solution strongly for those with medium-sized businesses. It's not for enterprise solutions or enterprise businesses. It's a great solution for the non-enterprise client. 

I would rate this solution eight out of ten.

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April 2024
Learn what your peers think about AppDynamics Database Monitoring. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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