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We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring and AppDynamics Database Monitoring 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.
To learn more, read our detailed AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. AppDynamics Database Monitoring Report (Updated: March 2024).
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"AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring provides smooth connectivity to different applications.""The best feature of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is that it lets you find errors in synthetic jobs ahead of the users. The solution shows you all front-end metrics. You can also see JavaScript errors and jQuery errors through AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring. You can also do a correlation between the front end and the backend, or from the user to the navigator, to the backend through the solution.""The most valuable feature is the end-user monitoring.""The feature we find most valuable, is that the solution creates a unified platform making it really easy to pinpoint a problem, and then drill down into a transaction to resolve the issue.""It provides a lot of data, so it helps businesses identify their user base.""One noteworthy feature is user journey analysis, which enables tracking user interactions and conversion paths on a website.""It is a stable solution that helps address user issues well.""We used AppDynamics to identify gaps and bottlenecks in the software."

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"The solution is great for database monitoring. You don't have to install an agent on the database. You just install the server to a database agent. It's a good product for some database administration if you don't want to install an agent on the database for security.""AppDynamics is scalable. They can monitor billions of transactions because they're not monitoring all transactions. They're monitoring samples. So, they can offer good monitoring for the huge sites.""Visibility to the end-users is a valuable feature.""AppDynamics Database Monitoring's dashboarding is its best feature.""The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that we can see all query times. If a particular query is taking too much time, we can alert it.""The dashboards are very well-defined.""You have a live view of what happens when something goes wrong on the production or support side. You don't have to scramble and do guesswork. We can identify the query that creates the bottleneck or slows the performance of the database system. It can give you points on how to debug and fix the system.""We were able to correct problems, which led to an increase in availability, time savings, and performance for our solutions."

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"What could be improved in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for the synthetic jobs or synthetic agents, in particular, you can't do a lot of tests with just one agent. You have to install a lot of agents if you want to do more tests, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is that you're only able to see basic metrics in the absence of server or database visibility. For the SaaS version of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring, my team just downloaded then installed the extension in an application in Azure to see the application on the controller, so if this can be done in the on-premise version of the solution as well, without needing to install the agent on the machine, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring better. Currently, the .NET agent consumes the CPU or memory and clients usually raise this issue with my team, so it would be good if the on-premises version doesn't require agent installation on the machine. Another functionality I'd like to see in the next release of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for it to receive updates from the file config without needing to reset IIS because right now when you do a modification in IIS, you have to restart IIS. When you add a service to the agent config, you have to restart IIS. For the product server, it's not possible to reset IIS after you make changes to the config file, so if this could be improved, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring a better solution.""AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring needs to offer an end-to-end experience, including the internet layer and third-party elements that come into play on websites.""If you have a single URL and all the operations are coming in as part of the header, you will not be able to segregate them for different actions.""The pricing falls within the mid-range category.""While I am not expecting it in the next release, I would want more centralized management of the agent in the platform and better support.""They do not have robust documentation.""We would like to be able to easily use this solution to monitor our Java script based browsers, which are currently blocked by the security settings.""The interface and user experience could be better."

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"I would like the solution to be more customizable to meet our client's requirements.""An improvement could be if the monitoring was able to be summarized into something more clear and simple for people who don't have the technical skills on the database side.""The solution could improve the server size for AppDynamics to include middleware products, which is doesn't yet cover. If they add middleware for sophisticated sites, AppDynamics would be the global choice.""The scalability could be improved.""This product has an issue with initial lag upon opening that we would like to see improved.""The product's drawback is the licensing pricing. It could be better.""It could be more user-friendly for beginners.""The application end of AppDynamics Database Monitoring needs to improve by checking which applications consume licenses."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This price of this product is expensive."
  • "AppDynamics is more expensive than competitors."
  • "AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring does have licensing cost associated with it."
  • "AppDynamics does not usually do monthly payments. They do it on an annual basis, at the very least."
  • "We have two different licensing models for this solution. One of them is the agent based model, which requires payment per agent. The other is an infrastructure based model, where the price is based on the CPU core. For the infrastructure model wholesale level pricing applies. All of the up to date licensing prices for this product are available on the manufacturers website."
  • "The pricing needs to come down."
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  • "In terms of pricing, I feel that when you compare the benefits that we get to the price that we paid, it is reasonable."
  • "Pricing is based on the size of the deployment."
  • "There is an annual cost for the use of this solution."
  • "It could be a bit lower, but looking at the scalability, functionality, and other things, you can understand why AppDynamics is so expensive as compared to some of the cheaper products that don't have that full single pane of glass they've got. Dynatrace has got three different elements that you need to log into just to get a full view, which is not so good, and because of that, it is a bit cheaper."
  • "The licensing scheme is very complex. They need to make it easier."
  • "We have purchased a few licenses for AppDynamics Database Monitoring and the price is high."
  • "The license for AppDynamics is procured by our customers."
  • "We have a license-based solution. That means you need a license for each server you monitor."
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    Top Answer:AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring provides smooth connectivity to different applications.
    Top Answer:AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is costly. If I have to rate the pricing, I would say seven because it's really expensive, with one being low and ten being high. The pricing needs to come… more »
    Top Answer:In user monitoring, AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring should provide a better user experience. It needs to offer an end-to-end experience, including the internet layer and third-party elements… more »
    Top Answer:Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases.
    Top Answer:We buy the platform's yearly subscription. I rate its pricing a six out of ten.
    Top Answer:They could align the product strategy to evolve as a complete solution similar to Cisco Observability.
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    Overview

    How do real users experience your browser-based applications? Using browser real-user monitoring follow their journey and optimize their experience with powerful end-to-end performance management that rapidly identifies application issues and relevant business transactions, and dramatically reduces MTTR.

    More than half of application performance bottlenecks originate in the database, but most application teams have little or no visibility into database performance. With AppDynamics' database performance management product, you get 100% visibility into application performance, from the browser to the database.

    Key Benefits

    • Visualize end-to-end application performance, from the browser to the database
    • Get alerts when database thresholds are violated
    • Monitor key performance metrics like top users, programs, SQL, objects and more.
    • See execution plans for slow SQL to isolate performance bottlenecks
    Sample Customers
    Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia
    Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Retailer7%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm41%
    Retailer18%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Wholesaler/Distributor6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm33%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Insurance Company6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Large Enterprise62%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise83%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise77%
    Buyer's Guide
    AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. AppDynamics Database Monitoring
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. AppDynamics Database Monitoring and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 14 reviews while AppDynamics Database Monitoring is ranked 16th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews. AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is rated 8.2, while AppDynamics Database Monitoring is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring writes "End-to-end visibility, feature-rich, but the support could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AppDynamics Database Monitoring writes "Good application performance features along with a very simple and tool navigation". AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is most compared with Elastic Observability, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Akamai mPulse, whereas AppDynamics Database Monitoring is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Dynatrace, Splunk Enterprise Security and AppDynamics. See our AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. AppDynamics Database Monitoring report.

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