We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and AppDynamics based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is the recommended choice over AppDynamics due to its cost-effectiveness, seamless integration with Microsoft technologies, and customizable out-of-the-box functionalities. AppDynamics, while offering various valuable features, is pricey, has a steep learning curve, and lacks a satisfactory end-user experience. Azure Monitor is praised for its application insights, troubleshooting capabilities, ease of configuration and maintenance, and proactive infrastructure information, resulting in a positive ROI.
"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."
"Before we moved the code to AppDynamics, we had to compare the agile process and also had to make sure that they're following the standards."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"You can scale the product."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"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."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"The integration part in AppDynamics with other systems is an area with a little difficulty, especially when it comes to the configuration area. The integration of AppDynamics with other products takes a lot of time."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"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."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"The UI could use a little help."
"AppDynamics lacks integration with cloud technology. It probably isn't a good fit for emerging enterprises because it's an on-premise solution, and many newer companies are moving to the cloud. AppDynamics' on-premise technology works reasonably well, but it doesn't have cloud features."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. 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 Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Instana Dynamic APM, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Sentry and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). See our AppDynamics vs. Azure Monitor report.
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