We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Elastic Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Elastic Observability offers ease of deployment, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness compared to AppDynamics' wider range of features. Despite having a steep learning curve, Elastic Observability offers machine learning and a comprehensive toolset at a lower price point. Elastic Observability is a good choice for those seeking a flexible and cost-effective observability solution.
"The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."
"AppDynamics makes it much easier for us to detect problems or issues before they become problems. We have alerting on all of our business transactions."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"The AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"It is a powerful tool that allows users to collect and transform logs as needed, enabling flexible visualization and analysis."
"The Elastic User Interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. You need to have some Javascript knowledge. We need that knowledge to develop new custom tests."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"We use AppDynamics and Elastic. The reason why we're using Elastic APM is because of the license count. It's very favorable compared to AppDynamics. It's inexpensive; it's economical."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"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."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"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."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"The training on the dashboards that is provided could be a little bit better, as could the use cases. They should have some good examples out there. As it is right now, I had to scour YouTube to find some stuff."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"Needs more integration with applications suites, like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"The interface could be improved."
"The auto-discovery isn't nearly as good. That's a big portion of it. When you drop the agent onto the JVM and you're trying to figure things out, having to go through and manually do all that is cumbersome."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Elastic Observability 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 Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Elastic Observability report.
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