We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and OmniPeek based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"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."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"The AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"The most valuable features are the voice bot, which checks the quality of service for voice, and the expert view that gives me insight on what and where to troubleshoot."
"It's a solid piece of software. It's stable."
"I believe the most crucial feature of OmniPeek search is the ability to sniff packets based on channel switching."
"The most valuable feature is OmniPeek is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of OmniPeek was the ability it gave us to see the connection procedure."
"The most valuable feature of OmniPeek is the ability to assign custom color codes to the different packets easily."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"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."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"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 screen you see."
"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 is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"I am not using OmniPeek for automation, we only do manual testing. Automation testing is tedious to do. The automation should be more user-friendly. I have exposed some APIs but the usage is not user-friendly."
"Making it more clear on how to configure the filters, or really automating them, would be an improvement."
"The solution's automation has room for improvement."
"I don't see a clear roadmap in the future for improving this software."
"I would like to see the saving feature improved. We have had issues if you do not save your progress then you have to start from the beginning."
"I would like to see the tool work in an open environment the same as how it does in a closed environment."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while OmniPeek is ranked 29th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while OmniPeek is rated 7.8. 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 OmniPeek writes "Easy to identify packets, beneficial color assigning, and responsive support". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas OmniPeek is most compared with LiveAction LiveNX, Colasoft Capsa, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE. See our AppDynamics vs. OmniPeek report.
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