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."The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us... Most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We have highly scalable systems and AppDynamics will help us monitor our load on-prem. Our systems range from simple to the most complex and it gives us the visibility across transactions, in one dashboard."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"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."
"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."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"Needs more integration with applications suites, like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area."
"The end-user experience is not really good because we can't catch all of the transactions. We only can catch the full stack of flow transactions, but I think that this is caused by the technology they use. If they will catch every transaction, it will cause a very big load on the performance of applications. The monitoring of all transactions needs improvement."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"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."
"The version compatibility needs work."
"My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"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."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
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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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