We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and BMC Compuware Strobe based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."From the performance management side, I like everything from business transaction work to tracking. On the database side, we can get a lot of insights from the database. On the server monitoring side, it helped us a lot to find out some of the issues on the VM side because VMs were creating a little trouble for us."
"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."
"It's made it easier to collaborate across teams; be able to have the same data immediately in front of you just by sharing a URL."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"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 most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"The initial setup was fairly easy."
"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."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"When you have high stress of visits I do not know if you are more stress because of the amount of visits or because you have to wait eternal 60 seconds to find out it things are going well or you already have mess."
"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."
"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."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"There are certain aspects of the configuration that could be simplified a bit."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while BMC Compuware Strobe is ranked 59th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while BMC Compuware Strobe 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 BMC Compuware Strobe writes "Stable with a good database and a good interface". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas BMC Compuware Strobe is most compared with IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS, IBM Application Performance Management and Mainframe Application Tuner.
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