We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics and others in Mobile APM."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."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"There are some metrics I'd like to track that are difficult to find or implement into a tracking solution without a lot of manual work."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"We are running a Webmethods stack (Software AG) and Foglight is unable to instrument. We are in a POC with Dynatrace and it was able to instrument with little effort."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
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AppDynamics is ranked 3rd in Mobile APM with 153 reviews while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Mobile APM. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] writes "We evaluated other options including BMC, but chose Foglight for it's notifications & the ability to review the history". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint.
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