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Anonymous User
Real User
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Jan 13 2019
What is most valuable?
In every APM tool, and this is true in AppDynamics as well, it's that waterfall view where I can see my code hotspots. In APM, it always comes back to that. It's great to have… more»How has it helped my organization?
I can't compare how it makes things better within my company. That would be like asking someone how air makes their life better. I don't say that lightly. I've been in other companies… more»What needs improvement?
What I would like to see might exist, but if it does I haven't seen it. I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions… more»What other advice do I have?
I see a lot of people migrate towards one product in particular in the market and they never really try the other APM vendors. They'll look at the page and they'll look at the price… more»
Sid Roy
Real User
Vice President - Operations & Client Support with 51-200 employees
Apr 30 2018
What is most valuable?
* Ease of deployment- it's easy to install and use. This is key for us. Even as the product portfolio has expanded to include additional- AD has… more»How has it helped my organization?
We are a services organization, so we use AppDynamics with our customers. It has allowed us to expand our footprint in the application management… more»What needs improvement?
AppDynamics should try to find some measure of support or functionality in an SAP and Peoplesoft environments- however with the introduction of C++… more»If you previously used a different solution, which one did you use and why did you switch?
We previously used AppSight by BMC software. The problems we had were problems with deployments, stability, visibility and wide support of jvms… more»What other advice do I have?
Basically, you can't over-speak importance of deployment, configuration and infrastructure footprint because what happens is that people get… more»5 comments
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Vp1165
Real User
Vice President at Works Applications Co., Ltd.
Dec 31 2018
What is most valuable?
It shows inter-service activities very easily. We were having issues with this primarily, so this was one of the most important areas for us. We have been using Cassandra. So, it has… more»How has it helped my organization?
We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly. Also… more»What needs improvement?
They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see. Their agents sometimes… more»What other advice do I have?
Depending on your use case, this is only a monitoring solution. If you don't have an in-house logging solution, or if your primary use case is to debug, you should consider choosing… more»Anonymous User
Real User
Global Lead Architect at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Aug 30 2018
What is most valuable?
Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us. We are in the process of migrating to cloud, but most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We… more»How has it helped my organization?
The key benefits it offers us are that it helps us know the infrastructure and performance issues, as well as if a customer is experiencing latency issues. It helps us know about them… more»What needs improvement?
I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard. I would also like more flexible pricing: A pay-per-use model, rather than just a… more»What other advice do I have?
In terms of advice, I would ask you to have criteria. Most of the time there will be some general aspects that are pretty common, that are covered by the various third-parties that… more»Anonymous User
User
Programmer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 20 2017
What is most valuable?
I'd say BTs, and being able to set health goals. Those probably would be the best. Second to that would be being able to monitor what's going on in… more»How has it helped my organization?
Looking at it from the standpoint of a developer, I see the biggest improvement being that it gives the developers more visibility and ownership… more»What needs improvement?
I went through the Power User training, and it was kind of like drinking from a fire hose. As a dev, I would like to see something that is more… more»If you previously used a different solution, which one did you use and why did you switch?
We were not previously using a different solution. We decided to invest in AppDynamics because we wanted to move from being reactionary to being… more»What other advice do I have?
My criteria when choosing a vendor would be the reputation behind them, the product they bring to the table, and of course the pricing. I wasn't… more»
Carl Brahms Jr
Real User
Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 13 2019
What is most valuable?
* Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic * Baselining of every single metric that you throw at it. * Easy to use API *… more»How has it helped my organization?
We have cut our MTTR by half just by deploying agents. It significantly reduced the amount of time that we spend building synthetic monitors. To… more»What needs improvement?
The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first… more»If you previously used a different solution, which one did you use and why did you switch?
The previous tool was: * Clunky * Had difficulty in configuring alerting. * Did not use baselines. * Required hard thresholds for each metric. *… more»What other advice do I have?
RUM, synthetics, mobile, network, and browser analytics make this a well-rounded tool.
Aimee White
Real User
Website and EComm at a local government with 10,001+ employees
Jan 16 2019
What is most valuable?
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… more»How has it helped my organization?
AWS was a new environment for a client and they used a series of extensions to show how the installation was performing and how changes impacted their setup, down the line. With… more»What needs improvement?
It could do with more than one data centre/multiple AWS accounts in a pane of glass. Also, improved scalability to large environments would be helpful.What other advice do I have?
We chose to procure this solution via the AWS Marketplace because you don’t need to buy physical hardware to use it. I would rate the solution at nine out of ten because you can edit… more»Anonymous User
User
Application Architect at T2 systems
Nov 20 2017
What is most valuable?
Being able to quickly diagnose customer issues and their performance problems.How has it helped my organization?
It lets us quickly diagnose customer problems that occurred in production, but also lets us look at our system and load test in the quality assurance period so we find problems before… more»If you previously used a different solution, which one did you use and why did you switch?
We had built our own login and diagnostic tools but it was hard to add features to that, while at the same time try and diagnose any problems quickly. So it is nice to have something… more»What other advice do I have?
AppDynamics does exactly what I want it to do. It diagnoses problems quickly so if one of our customers is having problems, we can tell him what's slow and maybe find a solution… more»See 12 More AppDynamics Reviews
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AppDynamics is the Application Intelligence company. With AppDynamics, enterprises have real-time insights into application performance, user performance and business performance so they can move faster in an increasingly sophisticated, software-driven world. AppDynamics’ integrated suite of applications is built on its innovative, enterprise-grade App iQ Platform that enables its customers to make faster decisions that enhance customer engagement and improve operational and business performance. AppDynamics is uniquely positioned to enable enterprises to accelerate their digital transformations by actively monitoring, analyzing and optimizing complex application environments at scale.
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