AppDynamics vs Zenoss

AppDynamics, Inc. is an American privately held application performance management and IT Operations Analytics ITOA company based in San Francisco, CA. This market is known as Application Intelligence. The company focuses on managing the performance and availability of applications across cloud computing environments as well as inside the data center. Aside from the core APM functionality AppDynamics Unified Monitoring solution provides an application-centric, integrated monitoring platform that traces and monitors every user interaction from end-user client to application code to third-party services/databases and supporting infrastructure. Unlike other unified monitoring solutions AppDynamics is one integrated platform built from the ground up for application monitoring across end-user, application, DB, and infrastructure. One modern UI, consistent data model for monitoring across distributed environment, one datastore architecture, and one flexible and easy installation.

Zenoss is a free and open-source application, server, and network management platform based on the Zope application server. Released under the GNU General Public License version 2, Zenoss Core provides a web interface that allows system administrators to monitor availability, inventory/configuration, performance, and events. Zenoss maintains an active developer community. Notable project milestones include: