We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Oracle Enterprise Manager 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."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 reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"We're a large organization, so we appreciate AppDynamics' wide coverage. It may not work in all areas, but it has broad coverage. We can use the same dataset for different use case aspects. That is the beauty of AppDynamics. You can coordinate APM, EUM, and infrastructure through one dataset."
"We have been able to monitor our applications more accurately."
"It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager triggers critical alerts."
"We use it extensively for performance tuning testing, monitoring, and configuration."
"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager for a lot of services like ERP and PLM."
"We can manage everything in our environment."
"The best part is the efficient database performance monitoring and the ability to take actions directly from there."
"It is a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for managing database consolidation, something that has been missing and difficult to do."
"It is a scalable solution. So far, my company has not faced any issues with the scalability part of the solution."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager is a scalable solution."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"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."
"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"At this time, we don't have much visibility on the virtual environment, monitoring, and all other things. We have visibility only for database monitoring, and we have noticed performance impact when deploying database agents on the database server. We got to know this from AppDynamics support also that we should not deploy database agents from the database server. When agents are deployed on the same server and the database is monitored from there, we are not getting database server metrics. Therefore, we don't have those insights, and sometimes, we struggle because of that. They can improve this functionality so that we do not have a performance impact, and we can deploy anywhere. This would help us a lot. In terms of end-user monitoring, currently, it is not working for us because there are some complexities. It is a little complicated, and it takes a little bit of time to understand where you need to make changes. It would be very helpful if they can provide some template designs for end-user monitoring. When our servers are running on VMs, we don't get many insights from the VM side. I don't know whether it is possible to have visibility beyond the database, server, and application and whether there are some features where we can deploy AppDynamics on VMs as well. Such functionality would give us more control over storage, VM, OS, and database. It will also provide complete visibility of our hardware and software."
"This solution is expensive."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The deployment is not straightforward."
"The fact that Oracle Enterprise Manager is an expensive solution is a matter of concern and needs to be considered for improvement."
"The tool is expensive."
"It is complicated to run it on Google Chrome."
"I would say mostly backup and recovery, through the Enterprise Manager. Or any corruptions, to be able to fix them through Enterprise Manager."
"The product is pretty comprehensive, but quite resource hungry. This might be due to the majority of the application seemingly being written in Java."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve the monitoring types and the graphics."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 122 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4. 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 Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and SCOM, whereas Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, Quest Foglight for Databases and Nutanix Database Service.
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