We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring and Azure Monitor 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."One noteworthy feature is user journey analysis, which enables tracking user interactions and conversion paths on a website."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the end-user monitoring."
"It is a stable solution that helps address user issues well."
"AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring provides smooth connectivity to different applications."
"The most valuable feature is that we can see how our end-users are interacting with our application across regions."
"We used AppDynamics to identify gaps and bottlenecks in the software."
"It provides a lot of data, so it helps businesses identify their user base."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"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."
"AppD is really cool and a unified solution for both APM and APM centric Analytics side. We can show almost all business data within the APM context from the end-user perspetive. But this process is a little bit manual. If they catch and map business journeys based on customer interaction on the browser automatically, it should be really fine."
"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."
"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."
"The pricing falls within the mid-range category."
"The interface and user experience could be better."
"I would like to see support for mobile testing and mobile monitoring."
"They do not have robust documentation."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"There are a lot of things that take more time to do, such as charting, alerting, and correlation of data, and things like that. Azure Monitor doesn't tell you why something happened. It just tells you that it happened. It should also have some type of AI. Environments and applications are becoming more and more complex every day with hundreds or thousands of microservices. Therefore, having to do a lot of the stuff manually takes a lot of time, and on top of that, troubleshooting issues takes a lot of time. The traditional method of troubleshooting doesn't really work for or apply to this environment we're in. So, having an AI-based system and the ability to automate deployments of your monitoring and configurations makes it much easier."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
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AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 14 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is rated 8.2, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. 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 Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is most compared with Elastic Observability, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Grafana. See our AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. Azure Monitor report.
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