We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and SolarWinds AppOptics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is simple."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"The release management capabilities are great."
"I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"We have been able to monitor our applications more accurately."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"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 integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"More native support for other hardware is needed because having to install various extensions and perform extra setup for different devices is really challenging, and not as easy or straightforward as it is in other products."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"Its resiliency can be improved. We're told that the best we can do with an on-prem solution is to have a hot standby that requires a manual switchover. So, it is a do-it-yourself Ikea model of maintaining data consistency between two servers, without having low balance or failover considerations for an on-prem solution."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 43rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds AppOptics 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 SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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