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Pricing and Cost Advice
"The product’s licencing policy is competitive. However, properly identify and size your needs to get the best rate."
"As a technical person, and as an application development team, they all understand that this is the right tool for us. But when it comes to budget and financial matters, it takes days and weeks to convince upper management to buy this tool. So they should do something more on licensing costs."
"It is not a cheap tool, but you also save in manpower to setup because it is easy and fast. At the end of the day, I think the revenue is much better.
BUT, they have an awful co-term mode of licensing."
"It could be cheaper. It's a little cost prohibitive. There are so many features that also show a lot of value, but it’s not always easy to justify the cost."
"Because it is priced per JVM, the price can increase pretty fast, into the millions. We have had challenges because we had to justify the price to our clients, as well, when we are putting in certain tools."
"It would be better if there were more solutions incorporated into the base price. "
"The way it is structured in terms of price could be better. You pay for individual modules and that adds on to the cost, which detracts you from implementing those modules and slows you down."
"Take into consideration what you get for specific pricing models and how much it costs to add on things you may need later."
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AppDynamics is a leader in APM (application performance monitoring) tools. The solution is designed to help you spot application issues on the spot so you can get to the root causes of problems, all in real time. In addition, AppDynamics offers seamless traceability and is fully capable of enhancing application performance and visibility in the multicloud world. It uses AI to solve application problems and prevent them from occurring in the future. AppDynamics is a great tool that can help your organization make critical, strategic decisions and is ideal for businesses of all sizes.
AppDynamics Features
AppDynamics has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:
Code level visibility
Dynamic baselining
Powerful alerting
Visibility and control
Quick installation
Mobile real-user monitoring
Browser real-user monitoring
Application performance management
Database agents
Server visibility
Trend database performance over time
Data retention
Monitors multiple platforms
Troubleshoots performance issues
Synthetic monitoring
Continuously monitors in a high-volume environment
AppDynamics Benefits
There are many benefits to implementing AppDynamics. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:
Deep insights: The AppDynamics solution can provide deep insights into your processes, including real-time insights into performance, user experience, objectives, and business outcomes.
Unified monitoring: With AppDynamics, six monitoring applications are combined into a single robust solution. In turn, you gain complete visibility and multi-channel user experience management. The solution’s unified monitoring also quickly produces previews that are more accurate.
Data-led customer experience: By using AppDynamics, you can ingest and analyze data across your entire technology stack and transform it into detailed visualizations. This allows you to easily make the right business decisions while enhancing the user experience and also driving better business results.
Advanced network visibility: AppDynamics allows you to gain insight across your entire technology stack. As a result, you have greater visibility of the external networks that your applications rely on, which enables you to quickly resolve issues with connections to Domain Name Service (DNS), Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers.
Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the AppDynamics solution.
Chandan K., Associate Director at a financial services firm, says, “The tracing is the most important aspect of the solution. The way it traces the information within the particular application or within the particular infrastructure is great. That actually helps. Apart from that, all of the data that's in the production APM is good.”
PeerSpot user, Yacin H., Responsable Commercial at Zen Networks, mentions, “You can use one module for each server, for each application, and for each API”. He also adds, “With the solution you can put add-ons on it and it's very customizable. You can customize it easily. If you want something that the tool doesn't have, you can add it easily.”
Another reviewer, a Head Of Information Technology at a mining and metals company expresses, "The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks. The dashboards of the solution are excellent. The stability is good.”
David G., Systems Engineer at a tech services company, states, “The solution has beneficial application analysis, is highly scalable, and has a great ROI.”
Sematext Experience is a real user monitoring solution that offers 100% visibility into your website or web app that affects your users’ experience.
It allows you to inspect individual sessions to get page-level specifics. This helps assess the user’s satisfaction to prevent customer loss due to poor performance. Furthermore, you can set up alerts for Apdex score, script errors, and page load time and receive real-time notifications whenever performance anomalies are detected. this, in turn, will enable you to troubleshoot issues faster.
Sematext Experience was designed so DevOps and BizOps can work together. Having easy access to all your actionable data provides your whole team with in-depth insights. With this data, effectual decisions can be made with ease to ensure your customers are always satisfied.
Sematext Cloud benefits
Easy installation Fill in the App Name, usually, the domain of your website (e.g. www.sematext.com) will work well for this purpose. Choose between SPA and the standard website, and follow the displayed instructions based on your selection to add snippets to your website.
Single-page application support With real user measurement, you can monitor page performance and resource usage of your single-page applications. We support major SPA frameworks such as React, Ember.js, Angular, and Vue.js, as well as monitor all fired HTTP requests. Dive into page-load time and get a headstart on application performance-related issues.
Individual session performance See where and why real users encountered performance issues like slow page loading and errors by tracing their user journeys. With individual visit reporting, you can identify customer satisfaction and prevent loss due to poor service. Track page load events, on-page transactions, and HTTP requests made during the session to troubleshoot issues more quickly. Get detailed crash reporting and an overview of error-free users.
Inspect Page load events Choose your favorite chart to get a complete resource view showing assets that are causing your pages to load slowly, along with a detailed load time analysis. Charts with page load events display users' online and backend activity. Analyze images, fonts, style sheets, and JavaScript files' loading times.
Monitor your Apdex score Make sure your website or web application has a fast loading time and determine whether an HTTP request succeeded or failed and how that affects your Apdex Score. Analyze what your Apdex Score is and what is affecting it.
Real-time automatic alerts Receive real-time alerts when your site's performance is adversely affected by page load time and Apdex score. Detect anomalies and get real-time alerts when your site's performance is affected by page load speed.
Just some of the things you can do with Sematext Cloud
Combine the power of metrics, logs, and end-user monitoring under one roof with Sematext Cloud
First-class support for popular frontend frameworks such as React, Ember, and Angular
URL grouping for both page-load events and HTTP requests
Powerful cost control using data sampling
Has a solution for synthetic monitoring
Error tracking
Reduce performance-related issues by having 100% visibility into what areas are affecting UX
Connect your DevOps and BizOps teams to manage and improve your customers’ experience with real-time data and metrics
Get alerts in real-time when a bug is affecting performance or user satisfaction
Track page loads, HTTP requests, resources, UI interactions, and more!
inspect individual user sessions and page-level specifics
Monitor web core vitals
Where to go from here?
Sign-up for the 14-day free trial to see what Sematext Experience can do for you. No credit card is needed. The pricing starts at $9/mo for 25K views/month and 7 day retention period. And if you want to explore the benefits of a full-stack monitoring solution, adding logs and metrics to your dashboard is as easy as a few clicks away.
Sample Customers
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Sematext Experience is ranked 13th in User Activity Monitoring. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Sematext Experience is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Sematext Experience is most compared with .
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