AppDynamics and Prisma Cloud are both popular among users for their valuable features, ease of use, and positive outcomes. While AppDynamics is praised for its detailed analytics and reporting capabilities, Prisma Cloud stands out for its comprehensive security capabilities and automated compliance assessment. Users have noted that the pricing and licensing options for both products are fair and transparent. However, AppDynamics users have highlighted the need for a more intuitive interface and better integration with other systems, while Prisma Cloud users have mentioned the importance of enhancing alerting and reporting functionality.
The summary above is based on 136 interviews we conducted recently with AppDynamics and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"The most valuable feature of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is the CSPM, which we use the most. Additionally, the investigation and alerts are useful, and the creation of queries."
"It scans our containers in real time. Also, as they're built, it's looking into the container repository where the images are built, telling us ahead of time, "You have vulnerabilities here, and you should update this code before you deploy." And once it's deployed, it's scanning for vulnerabilities that are in production as the container is running."
"Its ease of integration is valuable because we need to get the solution out of the door quickly, so speed and ease matter."
"The most valuable feature is the continuous cloud compliance monitoring and alerting."
"It provides good visibility and control regardless of the complexity."
"Integration is very easy. And because it supports security that spans multi- and hybrid-cloud environments, it's very easy to use."
"This solution helped us by allowing us to schedule and fix things. This is not an easy thing if you're managing 1,000 plus resources."
"What I found most valuable in Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is the VAS, such as the web application and API security. I feel that VAS adds a lot of value, mainly because it gives visibility through the application layer and threat detection features."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"This solution is expensive."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"Some of the usability within the Compute functionality needs improvement. I think when Palo Alto added on the Twistlock functionality, they added a Compute tab on the left side of the navigation. Some of the navigation is just a little dense. There is a lot of navigation where there is a tab and dropdowns. So, just improving some of the navigation where there is just a very dense amount of buttons and drop-down menus, that is probably the only thing, which comes from having a lot of features. Because there are a lot of buttons, just navigating around the platform can be a little challenging for new users."
"It's not really on par with, or catering to, what other products are looking at in terms of SAST and DAST capabilities. For those, you'd probably go to the market and look at something like Veracode or WhiteHat."
"In terms of securing cloud-native development at build time, a lot of improvement is needed. Currently, it's more a runtime solution than a build-time solution. For runtime, I would rate it at seven out of 10, but for build-time there is a lot of work to be done."
"There is room for improvement on the logging and monitoring front because it's still not as holistic as I would want it to be."
"The dashboard can be created at the user level instead of the cloud account level, which will help save time."
"When it comes to protecting the full cloud-native stack, it has the right breadth. They're covering all the topics I would care about, like container, cloud configuration, and serverless. There's one gap. There could be a better set of features around identity management—native AWS—IAM roles, and service account management. The depth in each of those areas varies a little bit. While they may have the breadth, I think there's still work to do in flushing out each of those feature sets."
"The user interface should be improved and made easier."
"More documentation with real-world use cases would be helpful."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 81 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks 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 Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security.
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