AppDynamics vs Avantra comparison

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.”

Avantra is a highly-regarded next-generation AI operations platform for SAP automation operation processes. Avantra enables enterprise organizations to become self-healing organizations, fully able to process their complex operating systems more efficiently and productively. With Avantra, SAP clients will improve performance and compliance, redirect critical resources to enhance digital transformation, and reduce operational costs, thereby improving the overall business experience.

Avantra offers robust integrated operations for on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and SaaS options for both Build and Run operations. Avantra is a recognized, trusted solution that is used worldwide for both enterprise organizations and managed service providers (MSPs). Users can expect to consistently benefit from Avantra’s valuable intuitive processes and unrivaled intelligence to ensure their organization is able to maintain its landscape health while significantly reducing overall operational costs.

Avantra Benefits

• Start/stop automation: Avantra provides unmatched comprehensive visibility of the organization's SAP processes, enabling robust KPI and performance-based cloud scaling. Avantra issues swift automated direction about when to start/stop a SAP system process and when it's best to scale out or in.
  
  
• Monitoring automation: Benefiting from more than 160 plug-and-play SAP process checks results in no additional lengthy projects or consultancy fees. Avantra is cost-effective immediately. Avantra provides intuitively customized research and auto-deploy proficiencies that allow organizations to meet their most demanding and distinctive monitoring demands. Immediately upon deployment, Avantra automatically identifies the specific SAP system components, version, and type.
  
  
• Best practice automation: Avantra consistently uses the latest industry-recognized best practice monitoring processes for Basis monitoring audits and thresholds throughout the entire full stack and all SAP systems.
  
  
• System hardening: Avantra’s intuitive notification and system hardening process allows users to specify who receives unauthorized system notifications immediately. Should the alert not be addressed in a timely manner, Avantra will re-flag the issue.
  
  
• Fast, easy installation: Avantra can be installed and deployed in one day. The setup is straightforward, and there are no long-term commitments or excessive licensing costs. This makes Avantra very cost-effective and allows organizations to experience an almost immediate ROI.

Avantra Features

• Intuitive dashboards: Avantra offers fully customizable dashboards available to all stakeholders throughout the organization. Top-level executives receive full transparency regarding the entire fitness and health of the organization. Other users, IT staff, and team members have access to all the data they need to ensure the organization is running efficiently and productively.
  
  
• Cloud integrations: Avantra provides seamless integrations with Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, all with a very easy setup process. Avantra also has the ability to automate, monitor, and manage a complete range of SAP SaaS solutions, as well as third-party non-SAP SaaS web services and applications.
  
  
• SAP ecosystem: Avantra simplifies the SAP monitoring process by monitoring, managing, and automating every process of an organization's SAP ecosystem, including SAP and non–SAP applications, third-party applications, web servers, databases, and SaaS solutions. Everything is streamlined into one easy-to-use tool.
  
  
• ServiceNow integration: Avantra provides certified immediate integration with ServiceNow. This allows for enhancement of CMDB with SAP-specific data, and the capability of quickly triggering Avantra automations for immediate resolution of issues. Avantra also provides ServiceNow unique ITSM and ITOM integrations and many seamless integrations with today’s popular ITSM solutions via RESTful APIs.