We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and SCOM 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."The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again."
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"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 AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while SCOM 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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