AppDynamics Valuable Features

Venus Yaker Dalton - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist at 3M

The most valuable features of AppDynamics are its real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, transaction mapping, reporting and analysis, and real-time alerts. These features allow us to proactively detect and fix performance issues, optimize our infrastructure, and make informed decisions to improve the user experience. 

Real-time monitoring helps us stay aware of any anomalies and respond quickly, avoiding costly downtime. 

Deep diagnostics allow us to quickly identify the root causes of problems, accelerating resolution time. 

The transaction map gives us complete visibility into the flow of our applications, helping us identify bottlenecks and prioritize improvements.

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PM
Senior consultant specialist-ITID at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement while configuring it with any server. The product also offers a role-based login, providing role-based access, including operator- or admin-level access. It is very easy to assign roles in AppDynamics.

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AJ
Officer IT data processing at Stanbic Bank Ghana, Ltd.

I like that AppDynamics allows every organization to have what they want to see, like for my organization, we're able to customize the dashboard to show us details of what we want to see in our transactions. So, it shows us the transactions that are coming in, outgoing transactions, and field transactions. So, we had the freedom to customize, and I think that was priceless.

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Siva Jp - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Architecture at LTIMINDTREE

The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities. There are no limitations to any specific application, and their support extends to all levels, including mainframe and custom applications. AppDynamics can also be used as a SaaS model, which is a key advantage.

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Mahesh Deshpande - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technology Architect at Infosys

Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good. 

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OA
Operation Manager at Totalplay

This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us.

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Yacin  HATTAB - PeerSpot reviewer
Responsable Commercial at Zen Networks

You can use one module for each server, for each application, and for each API.

It can monitor the income and the outcome. For example, when you have a website that has online payments, if there are bugs in the online payment for the provider, it will check it, see the problem, and send you an alert.

If the development team makes a mistake with this tool, it points really the mistake and sends it to the manager and it provides also a solution too, as it monitors the code. It provides solutions to make the code more effective.

The initial setup is simple. 

With the solution you can put add-ons on it and it's very customizable. You can customize it easily. If you want something that the tool doesn't have, you can add it easily.

It is stable.

The solution can scale. 

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Sylvain Germe - PeerSpot reviewer
Application and Network Performance Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET.

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CB
Engineer at United Airlines
  • Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic
  • Baselining of every single metric that you throw at it.
  • Easy to use API
  • Customizable extensions
  • Facilitates business, dev and ops communication
  • Agents have low CPU overhead compared to other agent-based products we have tried.
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JP
Sr. Production Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

The monitoring feature is very useful. If you have multiple applications and systems with high CPU utilization or other issues, you don't need to monitor them individually. With AppDynamics, you can get all the information from the dashboard. It's very convenient.

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

The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring.

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CK
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The tracing is the most important aspect of the solution. The way it traces the information within the particular application or within the particular infrastructure is great. That actually helps. Apart from that, all of the data that's in the production APM is good.  

Technical support is helpful.

The solution scales well.

The stability is good. 

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Muhammad Zeeshan Siddiqui - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Technology and Services at Arwen Technologies

I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions. 

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SK
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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. 

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DG
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure.

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it_user858033 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manger Sr, IT Program Mgmt. at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
  • Looking at every tier in the application's path. 
  • Being able to correlate performance between tiers. 
  • Being able to drill down within the individual tiers for metrics.
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SK
IT Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The transaction snapshots are probably by far the most used feature because it gives a lot of details. It adds a lot of value. You can really get to the details really, really quick. You can drill down very, very quick. When you show it to somebody who's a stakeholder, they typically get it right away. You don't have to explain. You don't have to “translate.” That really helps with the communication. That really gets people focused on the task at hand, rather than trying to pass the buck around. That really helps quite a bit.

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Paolo Sala - PeerSpot reviewer
Application performance and System monitoring at Agos

The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications.

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Kachi Nnamdi - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Converge G. C. T.

The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting.

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SR
Consultant at a financial services firm with self employed

We're a large organization, so we appreciate AppDynamics' wide coverage. It may not work great in all areas, but it has broad coverage. We use the same dataset for different use case aspects. That is the beauty of AppDynamics. You can coordinate APM, EUM, and infrastructure through one dataset. 

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JG
Senior Director : Database Infrastructure and Site Reliability at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

This solution is great at alerting us to issues and letting us know if anything is correlated.

The release management capabilities are great. If you do a new release, you have to ask: how's will it perform? Is it going to have problems? Before it was hard to actually measure. Now we're able to precisely measure the performance and also the error rate. That's very helpful.

It's also helpful with building dashboards. You can build dashboards for different parts of the company, for the operations, for the application, for the infrastructure, all the above.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

The stability has been good.

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KV
Systems Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable.

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it_user560460 - PeerSpot reviewer
Capability Development Manager - Monitoring at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Part of it is the ease of adoption. We were a big CA house beforehand. We had a massive implementation of CA APM, but nobody uses it. We ditched CA in favor of AppDynamics. We compared New Relic and AppDynamics. AppDynamics is, in my opinion, far superior.

The ease of adoption has already picked up in my company. Bear in mind, we're probably about nine months into the project; it's probably more widely used than CA was after three years. So, that is, for me, the prime benefit. We are actually getting people to use the tool and get value out of it; it's not just shelf ware.

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it_user118995 - PeerSpot reviewer
User Experience Solution Director at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think the ability to quickly correlate and introspect into what's going on inside a Java container is the most valuable feature for us. We haven't fully leveraged it yet for monitoring and altering which was one of the main reason we wanted AppDynamics. These features are hooked up but we haven't seen a lot of action in production yet. We currently use it more for the pre-production performance troubleshooting and debugging. So far its been the majority of our usage. View full review »
CD
Software Engineer at Apmosys Technology Pvt. Ltd.

This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve. In essence, it helps us address problems at an early stage. Moreover, it is especially useful in production servers where real users encounter numerous issues.

There are numerous issues that arise during peak times, and AppDynamics makes it easy for us to identify the problem areas and determine the appropriate resolutions. This is how it helps us find solutions effectively.

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SS
Monitoring Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers.

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

The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application. For example, if there are any failures, AppDynamics will give us the number of failures and the reason for those failures. 

The solution also allows us to deep-dive into the code by taking us to the line of code where it feels there is an issue.

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WS
IT Operations Executive at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Everything that AppDynamics yields we use in some way. 

We are a rather big user of AppDynamics. We use synthetic monitoring. 

From an application perspective, all the elements that come stock standard with the product, we are heavily invested in. We built a long list of dashboards and auto-alerts that goes through our call center to resolution groups, to fix issues, as and when they occur. 

The SAP monitoring element is very helpful. Historically, three or four years ago, AppDynamics couldn't tool an SAP instance. Now, there's a specific agent that you can deploy to SAP. We've invested in that element. There seems to be a market requirement for that element. Fairly recently, however, Dynatrace also added that to the inherent product capabilities, in order to monitor SAP ecosystems.

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SR
Vice President - Operations & Client Support at Scicom Infrastructure Services
  1. 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 done a great job of ensuring that the deployment process is straightforward and usually up and running in minutes. Even the upgrade process has been made a very low touch and the simple process makes it easy to keep your deployment up to date with the latest releases.
  2. Low infrastructure overhead and footprint, which go hand in hand. Low invasive processes for care and feeding of the solution in extremely large scale environments.. Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality.
  3. Features- in terms of diagnostics it's very good and very extensible. AD has clearly contemplated the multitude of monitoring workflows and features needed to sustain enterprise application performance across all major tech platforms and architectures.
  4. Extremely reliable and resilient agent based technology.
  5. Extensibility - the solution has been designed to account for rapidly changing application architectures. A strong example is the mobile and browser related capabilities AppDynamics has brought to market. With near out of the box functionality for iOS and Android- AppD also provides support for single page applications and additional advanced JS type deployments models
  6. Integrated view of database system performance and execution- AppD has crafted a powerful single pane of glass view
  7. Breadth and depth of portfolio with ever expanding capabilities including synthetics, log management and analytics capabilities
  8. The analytics engine, now called BusinessIQ is very, very powerful. The ability to capture business parameter information and operational information and merge it together for integrated dashboarding is one of the pillars of the IT-Business paradigm. I was able to create powerful analytics queries using GUI, or if you want to go deeper- the solution allows for complex SQL statement execution to really perform deep IT level business intelligence
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CM
Senior Computer Performance Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The business transaction tier of management is the most valuable feature; the fact that we can go into multiple tiers and monitor the transactions from the end-user point of view. That's very important to what we're doing.

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it_user420528 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We like the ability to drill down into the method level to identify where the real issue is, as other tools just show the slowness at the transaction level only. We also like its database monitoring which gives almost everything to us for identifying any performance issues with the database. It is certainly not a legacy monitoring tool to monitor the database, it should be looked at as a database performance monitoring tool.

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SM
Performance Test Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable features of the solution are diagnostic sessions and alerts. The diagnostic features and ability to create custom dashboards are the key features of the tool.

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Wathek Belhaj Amor - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Perform IT

AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics.

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Subhajit Nag - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Process Associate at Tata Consultancy Services

I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find. 

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it_user560529 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. App Analytics DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

AppDynamics is very easy to use, and easy to deploy in our environment, especially because we're a central organization that helps other application teams with their APM solution. For me, that flow map makes all the difference for the customers. You show them the flow map. You tell them, “OK, green is good, yellow is a problem, and red is warning. Where do you see your problem?” They're like, “Right there.” That makes life a lot easier, compared to all the other tools that I've used in the past.

That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace. Those are two of the things that makes AppDynamics different.

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it_user560427 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems & Network Administration Manager at Jack Henry & Associates

The dynamic baselining is a big plus; being able to get rolling baselines for different times of the day, different days of the week, days of the month. Alerting is a big feature; being able to receive alerts when we have things that kind of go out of bounds. Dashboarding is also a pretty big one that we use a lot, along with the API; being able to put in our own data and add that to dashboards related to what AppDynamics itself is finding.

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

This solution makes it fast and easy to diagnose performance issues and exceptions/errors in application coding.

After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again.

The Web Dashboards are also very useful and sometimes can really prevent incidents before they happen.

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AS
Associate Director, Application Performance Management Solution Design & Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market.

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AJ
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Application monitoring is the most valuable feature.

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it_user501966 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • End-to-end business transaction breakdown: clear picture of where the application is taking time
  • Easy user interface to work on
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it_user560499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Support Lead at ASRC Federal Data Solutions

The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application: Are all of our transactions going smoothly? Are we having a bottleneck somewhere? Identifying problems before they impact the users. The live reporting and dashboard(s) allow us, at a quick glance, to see the overall health of our nationwide (US) application. We can see the health of our individual office locations (cities) and the individual users (PCs). At any given time we can tell which specific city and\or user is experiencing poor application performance. It even helps us determine if the issue is application, network, or user specific. Before we had AppDynamics APM, we were reactive. We’d wait for a phone call or email to tell us there was a problem and then go looking for it, find it, and resolve it. Now, after installing AppDynamics APM, we’re proactive. We can see the problems developing in real time. We can identify a problem and be half way to resolving it before we’ve even received a phone call or email. We’ve even discovered and resolved problems without the end users or management even realizing there was a problem.

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it_user277401 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the ease of just putting it in right out of the box and its being able to traverse our environment and bring those problem areas to light. That's basically it.

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it_user560487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Enterprise Network Planner at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

One of the most valuable features has been the ease of use that really fuels adoption in our organization. Other solutions that we have used for APM were not as user friendly, and frankly it was just really difficult to get people to use the tools.

The dashboards have been straightforward; easy to set up, really, for the most part.

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it_user560484 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager at Arbonne international

Auto-integration with applications and how easy it is to identify errors/issues are the most valuable features for this product.

Along with APM, we use End User Monitoring; I personally use it. We have a unique business model where at the end of the month there is a peak in usage. This product helps us to monitor that usage and makes sure that we target issues even before they occur.

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it_user420570 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Integrated and aggregated performance analytics traces transactions across multiple tiers in which web services deployed in separate data centers call each other. It tracks the time spent from the beginning to the end across multiple layers (web, servlet, JMS, EJB) and forked threads. It tells the full story about a transaction in addition to resource utilization. It tells you if one of many servers ran a major GC (garbage collection) in the last five minutes, or if one of the transactions took more than 10 seconds. It also drills down to its components.

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Mehmet Arpa - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Destel Bilişim Çözümleri A.Ş.

AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments.

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MN
Manager, Enterprise Service at Hang Seng Bank

Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful.

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UA
Head Of Information Technology at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees

The dashboards of the solution are excellent. They can be customized very easily.

The stability is good.

The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks.

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TS
CEO at Rufusforyou

What I found is that there is a lot of room to develop things in it and to connect to other tools like IBM.

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it_user72771 - PeerSpot reviewer
Info Sec Consultant at Size 41 Digital

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. This is invaluable for executive meetings, where it can sometimes be hard to link an event to an outcome, a month down the line. The bottom line is that it helps protect your bottom line.

The extensions can be edited in a simple config file so you can sculpt what you are getting.

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NS
Global Lead Architect at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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 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.

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it_user560505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are transaction correlation, application flow map, business transactions, and the key metrics that are displayed on the dashboard.

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it_user560478 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead Gestion des évènements at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The features we find most valuable are real-time monitoring, seeing transactions, being proactive and easy to focus on the real problem.

I remember a case that would have taken maybe four or five days to find the cause. Now, we find it in two or three hours. APM has really made it more efficient. It really helps.

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it_user560391 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Performance Test Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The performance issue identifying feature with the transaction snapshots is the best feature I see.

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it_user560442 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the ability to pinpoint problems in our applications. We can find the problem quickly and fix it.

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it_user560373 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is giving end-to-end, about the business transactions, specifically, which is an area everybody struggles with. What they are looking for, basically, is how customers are viewing the transaction, from the end-user perspective, which is useful for the business people. They can streamline where they want improvement, but it also gives you the details down to the nitty-gritty that the developer teams are responsible for. Along the way, it's also showing you the overall performance for the infrastructure that you have for the application.

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it_user129477 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Tester/QA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It provides great tools for monitoring and managing all the different environments of Dev, QA, and Prod with different needs but from a common interface.

It's very light and monitoring overhead is minimal.

And because it's also a SaaS-based application, it can be accessed by all team members from anywhere at any time.

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OM
Sr. Devops Engineer at a media company with 201-500 employees

The ability to check parameters for microservice applications is most valuable. It is important for me. I can manually create new business transactions for applications and individually monitor business transactions. 

I can also use a lot of extensions. It has a lot of extensions to monitor other third-party applications, such as NoSQL applications, memory cache applications, Kafka applications, and Couchbase applications. It is very useful. We are also using the end-user monitoring site to follow all end-user activities. It is important for us to check the errors on the customer site.

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DD
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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 reporting. It's great to have that alerting: Tell me when something deviates from my normal conditions. All the analytic functionality is good for telling me what code to look at. But ultimately, I can't live without that code-level trace. I have to know where things are hot so that I can help the developer with what they actually need to fix. I can't just tell them the app is slow. That's always been the most important thing. In AppDynamics, they make that easier.

There are other products I won't name where you go in and you're looking at 50,000 traces. There's no way to sort and organize those particular traces. In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work; for example, sorting by the ones that took more than a second. I don't have to do that in AppDynamics. Sometimes I do so, in the course of troubleshooting, but for the most part, it tells me. I click on a trace. It's usually a trace that matters, that I can take action on, and that I can have a real impact on.

All those millions and, in some cases billions, of traces, over the course of a couple months, get aggregated into one view that's manageable. The other APMs are good if we don't have millions of requests. As soon as I get into that threshold, I can't look at that many traces anymore, they don't have great ways of looking at the traces in aggregate.

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it_user560520 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Project Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

What I like about the APM is that it allows us to quickly identify where there are issues. It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly. It's very configurable, but also has a lot of functionality right out of the box.

It has become a very integrated tool in our company, to share with developers, as well, some of the information that AppDynamics APM is showing us. It's becoming a bit of a cultural change for us to really look at AppDynamics and to leverage its full capabilities.

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it_user560412 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Application Operations at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is primarily the ability to do business transaction analysis in real time; for us to be able to use it for multiple areas. We use it for our cloud services, as well as our in-house application stack. Pretty soon, we're going to go into the analytics side; that's one of the next big ones for me.

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it_user560361 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the ability to understand what's going on inside our application, not just what's going on in the hardware, in the network environment, and those sorts of things. We first started working with AppDynamics because of an operational incident we had with one of our systems, where the system had become unresponsive. Our other monitoring tools that were monitoring the network and so on, indicated that everything was fine – memory's fine, CPU's fine, disk is fine, everything's great – and our customers were complaining. It wasn't until we got a tool like AppDynamics that we could find out what was going on inside our applications.

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BS
Engineer at Sirius XM Radio Inc.

The drill down feature is the most useful.

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it_user584115 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability/Dev Ops Strategist Digital Transformation at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The ability to alert, respond and monitor standard deviation: If it’s not broken, don’t go fix it!

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it_user560508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think the most important thing is the end-to-end view that you get of all of your servers when you set it up. You can see where problems are without having to actually experience them or tell they're experiencing the problems. You can be preemptive.

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it_user560385 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst Production Application Support at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees

From a reporting and dashboarding perspective, their API, which is what I deal with the most, is unmatched by any company that I've come across.

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SK
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the flow map.

It's easy to use, and the instrumentation is also good.

The alerting mechanism is very good.

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AM
Vice President at Works Applications Co., Ltd.

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 agents specific for each middleware, helping us check this application.

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it_user201555 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager in web analysis and performace at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are:

  • Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point.
  • Autodiscovery of transactions.
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SP
Consultant at Sepas Holding | هلدینگ سپاس

AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically.

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

The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use.

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it_user560430 - PeerSpot reviewer
Production Engineer at PHE inc

We've been able to chase down some big problems with our website. When the problems are more obscure in nature, it's allowed us to drill down into our code and find things we wouldn't normally be able to find as easily.

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it_user560493 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Systems at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Being able to monitor transactions end-to-end, throughout all the layers, basically, is very valuable; the ability to pin-point issues irrespective of the layer in which they happened. That's really helpful and very valuable.

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it_user560538 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Configuration Manager at IHG

The most valuable features are monitoring the application, using the metrics of the different applications and looking into various business transactions we do with different customers. That's what we look into more often, the business transactions; where the calls are coming in, whether they are inbound or outbound calls.

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it_user560358 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Health Operations Analyst at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

Right now, we use a lot of the metric browsers, we use the APIs to then ingest that into Splunk, and then create nice visual graphs that upper management can then digest very easily. We use AppDynamics not only from a troubleshooting point of view, but also for trending, analysis, and capacity.

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it_user560382 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer/Analyst at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is being able to trace and follow transactions through a complex environment.

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it_user509844 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My favorite part of the application is that it auto-baselines the application that you instrument with it. I work with other monitoring tools such as SCOM and Splunk. These tools are great, but the automatic baselining offered by AppDynamics is like an easy button.

Products like SCOM and Splunk require you to have to know exactly what you want to alert on. From a Splunk perspective, that is generally a very specific log entry such as an error. SCOM deals with hard thresholds and there is work to tune those to be meaningful for an organization. What make sense for organization A might be completely different for organization B. For example, when to alert on a drive filling up. Does 80% make sense and give enough proactive warning to get the issue resolved?

With AppDynamics, the product keeps track of how your application is performing and rolls that into an aggregated value that is compared against how the application is performing right now. It then lets you alert on a deviation away from what is considered normal. This creates immediate value in the alerts it provides without any real interaction from a tuning standpoint.

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Senior Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Transactional awareness. The team really enjoyed being able to track a transaction from start to finish. Not really a feature but I find the interface easy to use. View full review »
JL
IT Manager at PRIVALIA
  • Performance monitoring
  • The real user monitoring: It helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company. We can look into their detail, one by one. It is helpful because it is deterministic.  
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it_user560406 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a complex application. We do payments which are highly transactional in nature. With different kinds of workloads that you see in the production environment, how do you really track down specific issues which your lab testing environment can't really reproduce? Your production environment gives you certain workloads, which basically enable you to look at your application more closely. No lab test could really simulate that sort of a load. APM really helps us in getting down to the bottom of these sorts of workloads; how code responds to these sorts of workloads and how we can make our application deliver better latency and a better end-user experience.

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it_user560355 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

My favorite part of the solution is the ability to drill into the transaction snapshots. The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve. If there is a known error code there, it gives you some great information about what happened to the transaction. We can see what the hot spots were, not just the core error that was found. You can also see how long you're spending in the different modules, how long you're spending in your longest running database files, and so on.

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it_user528264 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Line-level tracing: This helped massively with identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks. We had a significant slowdown in our app that we were struggling to identify. Using AppDynamics to trace hosted code to bottlenecks proved invaluable. This however only got us so far. When we reached the limit with AppDynamics, we sought advice from their technical team. After all, we were using a very expensive product that didn’t get us all the way. Under NDA, AppDynamics took a working branch of our code and investigated the bottleneck internally. They did this using other tools besides AppDynamics. This was beneficial to them to identify things that could not be achieved with AppDynamics. Later, they were able to discover a way to make this easier within AppDynamics.

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it_user984684 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Operations Monitoring - Senior Software Engineer at Intuit Inc.
Insights outside of the code we write. We find some of our adopted libraries perform sub-optimally. Sub-optimal performance leads to a search for alternate libraries to help us scale. View full review »
FC
Software Engineer at a tech company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy. We can determine whether or not, at a given point in time, something is wrong. Then, we can dive deeply into the product to see what is happening by troubleshooting, debugging, and monitoring.

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it_user506304 - PeerSpot reviewer
PROJECT MANAGER, JEE AND SOA ARCHITECT, EXPERT at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

By stack trace exception I mean the automatic correlation between the exception stack trace with the request. For example, you can ignore specific know issue and In transaction snapshots, an ignored exception does not appear as an error in the Summary and Error Details sections of any transaction snapshot that was in progress when the exception occurred.

Concerning the ability to see the history of executionsI mean the ability to list of transaction snapshots, using Transaction Snapshot Flow Map displays.

You can see the history of the execution time, and timestamp of the transaction. The flow map also provides details of the overall time that is spent in a particular tier and in database and remote service calls.
The Applications dashboard and tabs, is a major point of the intuitiveness of the product, in fact It allows in a single view to have an overall impression of each application performance (for example Application Flow Map which depicts communications between different nodes and backends…).

The call Graph which is a powerful feature which allow to list the methods in a call stack and provides detailed informations about each call is another intuitiveness feature of the tool belong many other but the the better is to experiment the tool in a normal diagnostic case, my company and I can explain and assist your team more further with those features (we are based in France but also based at Montreal).

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it_user560367 - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring Lead at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Right now, we are using it for monitoring our mobile and user interfaces. We monitor the application in terms of the business transactions. We monitor end-user responses and then we track how many calls we are making from the balancer, which is impossible to track with any other applications.

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it_user560517 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Core Business Solutions at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are basically the customer experience that it provides, and the deep dive that it gives; the overall dashboards, and then the strength of the dashboards, so you get a single pane and can see across the platforms.

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it_user560496 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

One thing we like about AppDynamics is the fact that you get the end-to-end topology right out the gate. There's not a whole lot of configuration that's needed. Usually, right when you start up a new application it's automatically reporting. You can actually get some of those deeper dives right out of the gate, without having in-depth knowledge of your application or new features that are out. It just automatically makes those connections for you.

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it_user560379 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Project Lead, Systems Architect at Bodhtree

I like the real-time alerts. Basically, whenever the server goes down due to resource limits, such as JDBC connection pool resource limits, you get to a critical warning as a real-time alert. That's really good. Whenever an absolute restart happens on JVM, it sends a real-time alert, lights, mains, SMSs, and everything.

Also, for the dashboards and reports service, we’ve configured custom transactions. Based on that, we can see which particular transactions are getting more errors and slower performance, which gives us a chance to fix them.

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it_user560451 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees

It gives us good insight into our end-to-end business transactions. In the past, we've had to rely on customers calling us and telling us things were having problems. We can now not only do real-time monitoring, but also trending analysis, which allows us to reduce those calls.

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it_user121719 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
By far the most valuable/important feature for us is the ability to correlate the performance of individual business transactions across multiple nodes and applications in our environment. View full review »
YS
IT Specialist​ at IT Specialist LLC

AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics.

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CY
Service Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The product is good for the enterprise SAS application performance monitoring. It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on.

The solution is scalable.

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AF
Test Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace.

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it_user522015 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Monitoring and mediating the risks are the most beneficial features.

Before we moved the code to AppDynamics, we had to compare the agile process and also had to make sure that they're following the standards. Thus, monitoring the actual quality of work in AppDynamics is the most valuable feature to us.

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it_user560454 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director Software Development

The most valuable feature is the immediate view into what the system looks like – how it's doing; how it's performing, and what are the connected pieces; that instantaneous, real-time view of what's going on.

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it_user560418 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Engineer II at Expedia

The most valuable feature is real-time performance monitoring of my production applications; being able to determine within just a couple of minutes, whether or not my applications are having a problem; and being able to correlate that with issues that my customers report on.

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it_user560526 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It focuses on a much better idea of the end-user experience, of what they’re doing. We're not using end-user monitoring per se, but it gives a much better idea of what it's feeling like for them. We have all these hundreds of different URLs and web pages they can end up going on; be able to track all those individually and separately, and have it all be automated. We don't need to go through and say, "Hey, track these ten pages." It just loads it up, all on its own. It picks up new transactions that come through, new pages. When they release new code, we don't need to go through and manually assign what needs to be monitored.

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it_user560421 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Systems Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the fact that it can instrument without the developers having to do anything special or significant. You can just install it on the same machine that it runs on with the application and it works.

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FP
Services Technology Manager at NCR Corporation
  • Business transaction capturing
  • Analytics
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it_user560490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Platform Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked. If the developer who designed it decided to leave the company, we would be in dead waters. We had no idea what the application looked like. To understand the architecture, we would have to literally go back to the developers and ask them if they can at least put some blocks on paper. That was like, "okay, help me out, please. Let's go for dinner, let's go for lunch. You have to do something."

After installation of APM, we realized the value within five or ten minutes. We could see what our application looked like and this created value for upper management. They better understood that our single point of failure is a database connected to 10 or 15 servers. This is the only single point of failure. AppDynamics became our risk management tool. Now the senior management comes in, has a look, and says, "If you have a single point of failure, who is looking into this? Do we have a plan to make another database, a standby?" This is the key value that I see in this tool, and for which everyone is loving the company.

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it_user560514 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Applications Sr. Software Developer/Project Leader at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The easiest thing to do is to find all the transactions that you don't necessarily know about, what they are to discovery. A lot of times it shows you things that you had no idea was going on like performance problems you didn't know existed. It ties everything together and makes it easier to relate one transaction to all the different bits and pieces.

For example, one of our guys found that another system was hitting his system every hour, which was causing a lot more traffic than it should have. It wasn't affecting any other parts of the system and wasn't impacting the users, but was just causing way too much undue load on the system. They were able to track down why it was doing that and get the problem resolved in a week.

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it_user560388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Atg Developer at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

From our side, I like that I can monitor the site performance in real-time. We have had the same issues in the past where users complained about slowness. There are many times where I go to the APM dashboard and I can see that there are some hung users or the JVM is doing garbage collection. APM helps us identify which server is getting hit the most. You look in the server logs or you see that the necessary resources are being depleted. AppDynamics is helping us identifying those issues.

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it_user121725 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Application Support Specialist - ITIL® at AsianLogic

Application Flow Map, Operational Dashboards, Transaction Scorecards, Exception details (stacktrace, sql queries, etc), it provides all the information required to engage the issue, Metric browser, Information Points, Correlation Analysis.

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

The most valuable feature is the application performance. We have details such as CPU utilization and memory utilization, which we make use of to finalize the amount of CPU power or memory that we should allocate to our ports.

AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good.

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AY
Sr Technical Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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CC
Director at a program development consultancy with 51-200 employees

It automatically detects “slow” and “error” as transaction snapshots. The transaction snapshots help me find the root cause of the problem. Transaction snapshots collect business transaction information such as the application call stack and SQL statements.

It also captures important information about business transactions, such as method parameters and HTTP information (header, session, and cookie). The snapshots also correlate application calls among all monitoring nodes. It can identify the entry point to help us trace from the first tier to the back-end tier.

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it_user269436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance Expert at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

The fast setup of AppDynamics independent from the details of the application landscape is valuable.

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it_user560511 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Support Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'm pretty new to the product. For me, the most valuable feature is defining the health rules and seeing the metrics; defining the health rules so that I can get alerted in time. I think so far, I have only dealt with that.

I'm trying to learn new features that I have come across; use cases that I don't know if it's possible with AppDynamics, but I'm trying to find that out.

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it_user560439 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is just the sheer visibility it gives us, especially being on the performance team. It's basically our "eyes" to the application. Without it, we don't know the flow, we don't know where things are being impacted. We just love the visibility it gives us.

We have a lot of legacy systems. We have a lot of engineers, people. Not everybody knows the whole picture, where AppDynamics basically stitches all that together for us. So, you don't have to go to 10 different people, you can go to one screen and see that full view.

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it_user560394 - PeerSpot reviewer
Web Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

AppDynamics shows different tiers of our application from front-end to back-end, so it's really easy for us to toggle down to each tier and find the bottleneck.

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it_user521979 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead | Manager,Software Engineering at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think the performance and interface are the most important features.

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it_user560448 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Performance Management Intern at Choice Hotels International

The valuable features of this product are being able to monitor the network traffic and know where my calls are generated from and where they are going to. This makes it easier for me to triage and diagnose, if there have been any problems.

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it_user534495 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Unified Monitoring
  • Application Performance Management
  • End User Monitoring
  • Infrastructure Visibility
  • Application Analytics Business Insights: real-time insights into IT operations, customer experience and business outcome.
  • Business to Transform your application performance monitoring into business results.
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it_user126369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Gateway Systems Administrator with 51-200 employees
Viewing JVM performance and the business transactions for latency and SLA. View full review »
it_user112605 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer with 51-200 employees
JVM memory monitoring, hardware monitoring, response time monitoring and proactive alerting. View full review »
it_user112179 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Developer with 501-1,000 employees
I like that I can see the stack trace when problems are detected. This points me to the area in the code that needs to be fixed. View full review »
ES
Regional Director (CEER) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support. 

The solution makes it easy to find the root cause of the problems and provided the visualization of data. It is really simple, useful, and intuitive. 

It enables integration with other systems very easily. It can monitor applications of different technologies as well as manage log files. 

It has a lot of capabilities and the solution features function well overall.

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RY
DevOps Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has better dashboards and more control over everything.

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SS
Principal Engineer at Wyndham Hotel Group

It provides all the monitoring that we need in one place.

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GS
Technical Director at SoftPro

Stack information: I use this function to explain the problem to customers most of the time.

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it_user560535 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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 real-time, this is going to make a big difference.

I think that previously we were more reactionary than proactive. I hope that this is what we can really get out of AppDynamics, the switch to a more proactive stance. Before anybody else knows what is going on, we will know, and we will be able to cut down our meantime to fixes going out, and to identifying them.

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it_user560481 - PeerSpot reviewer
DB Admin at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is mainly the graphs that it puts together; the JVM, the heaps, the classes that get called, the number of calls from tiers to tiers.

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it_user17262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Development Mansger at Garmin

The most valuable feature is the ability for developers to do performance analysis functions by functions, be able to understand response time, and be able to improve code when they need to.

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RS
IT Executive at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good.

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VK
Associate QA Manager at Xcel Serv Solution

AppDynamics is a complete tool for server and usability monitoring.

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it_user560403 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect at T2 systems

Being able to quickly diagnose customer issues and their performance problems.

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it_user560502 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Features that are valuable to us are the business transaction transparency from one tier to the next and the ability to be able to drill down into the called stack. The ability to identify the stalled and error transactions in real time. And be able to investigate it, pick up the trends. That's one of the useful things. Because we use that as part of our root cause analysis and as a proactive, as well as a reactive way, to look at the incident and see what we can do to fix it.

For example, without getting in to the specifics of the issue, we've had some issues with our application where the capability in which we use tracing functionality to write the logs and stuff like that. And one of them had been enabled and it was writing it to a file instead of writing it to an HW, which was costing a lot of I/O. And unfortunately, at the time, the file share server that was taking all these logs was having an issue with the I/O. But it wasn't apparent because the experience of the customer was that the transaction was taking longer to complete. And we were trying to understand where's the bottleneck because everything looks healthy. But the requests kept stacking up.

But then, when we looked into the AppDynamics it make it very easy for us to identify that it was trying to write it to a log. And that operation, out of the entire chain, was this one step where it was trying to write to a location and that's where it was reporting a huge latency. In a matter of, I'd say about 15-20 minutes, we were able to trace it and be able to basically identify what the issue was and we fixed it. In fact, it drove a chain of reactions, in retrospect. Because obviously, it meant we need to look into these things much more carefully because to avoid these kind of incidents from happening in the future.

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it_user560376 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable feature of this product is figuring out problems before the customers find out.

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it_user76911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Code-level deep dive analysis and automated application flow service models: Companies maintaining strict compliance such as PCI, etc., can easily use AppDynamics without any restrictions, because it has a completely web-based interface and there is no client.

Use of BCI (Byte Code Instrumentation) is also a key feature that helps AppDynamics to fetch maximum information via Java agents without consuming a lot resources on the application servers.

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it_user516924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Production Operations Systems Admininistrator III at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The modules that we are finding most valuable are as follows:

  • Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift.
  • Databases: This module is amazing; allows our developers the ability to view into the SQL nodes themselves to quickly rule in/out any hardware issues. It also provides them with access to download execution plans directly via AppDynamics, which in turn helps improve turnaround time for fixes and such.
  • End User Monitoring: Whereas the Application module gives us insight as to how our applications are performing within our environments, End User Monitoring provides us similar data from a browser perspective. In other words, it provides us the complete experience from the clients’ perspective; tremendously valuable indeed.
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it_user257253 - PeerSpot reviewer
Spanish Language Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Once all the metrics are collated during the analysis phase, the troubleshooting section is very important to me. It provides the entire overview of the performance bottlenecks at different layers of the application landscape.

It helps me to prioritize my activities in solving or fine-tuning the application. It helps me in my interactions with the development, infrastructure, and operations teams.

This solution helps us conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of critical performance issues. We can communicate clearly with detailed insights. This saves time and prevents ambiguities.

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it_user560364 - PeerSpot reviewer
Production Support Analyst III/ Enterprise Monitoring at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

The application interrogation and business transaction mapping are the most valuable features.

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it_user112185 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stack trace of PHP calls through the application and timings of those calls.

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it_user112596 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Support Engineer with 51-200 employees

The detailed metrics that are collected about the JVM and the transaction snapshots, those have been most valuable to us to correct complex bugs.

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PS
Associate Principal Consultant at BRavura

The most valuable features are Data Flow and memory monitoring.

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it_user305178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

AppDynamics monitors the ICT environment by just installing a Java or .NET agent and machine agent on the server. It shows how all the components in the infrastructure work together to run an application. You can pinpoint easily where the performance issues for your application are.

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GH
Solutions Architect and Community Leader at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the standard APM agent for Java and .NET. We always find bottlenecks in applications with these agents.

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it_user799947 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees

End user experience monitoring, which includes:

  • Uptime (availability)
  • App response time
  • Database response time
  • Percentage of transaction time spent in database
  • Resource utilization
  • Database query times.
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it_user532590 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Performance Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are:

  • Automatic flow maps to visualize application environment
  • Snapshots of method-level execution timing
  • Automatic baselines of all metrics
  • Native mobile agent
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GP
Sr. Integration Developer at Equifax Inc.

The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server. It is amazing.

It helps to monitor our complex infrastructure very effectively.

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it_user324879 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect-Product Development with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • Business Transaction Tracking
  • HTTP Header values
  • Introspecting slow and error transaction at different tier levels
  • Analytics helps to group business calls based on vendor by using HTTP values
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it_user823356 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test / QA Architect at Virtustream
  • Code profiling
  • Monitoring
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AK
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey.

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it_user509022 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Engineer Consultant with 501-1,000 employees
  • Flowmap
  • Snapshots
  • End-user monitoring (web and mobile)
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it_user503214 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Technical Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Deep dive monitoring: It automatically instruments slow performing code components. It facilitates deep-dive component monitoring through deep on-demand diagnostics.

Creation of dashboards and reports: It provides creation of reports by adding standard graph and widgets. It stores all metrics into a database that can be used to drive analytics.

Business transaction tracing: It is very good in usability and tool navigation. The navigation is oriented towards business transactions which makes it extreme user friendly. The end user can navigate from business transactions and quickly navigate to the performance issues in those transactions.

Simple architecture: Agents and a centralised console.

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it_user560475 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Configuration Management Specialist at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The way APM works with the different applications, as well as the various analytics and metrics that it provides.

Right now we are not using it with any other products but we will soon be integrating AppDynamics with ServiceNow.

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it_user112602 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees
The fact that we can track all steps from a transaction and find the relation with the OS. With the metrics AppDynamics provides us with, we have a complete picture to draw conclusions. View full review »
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