We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prometheus is praised for its flexibility, integration capabilities, and affordability as an open-source solution. AppDynamics, on the other hand, is considered expensive, has a high learning curve, and poor end-user experience. Although it offers valuable features, its complex infrastructure is a drawback. Prometheus, however, is reliable, has a fast data storage system, and is highly valued for its flexibility and integration capabilities, making it thew preferred solution.
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"The solution saves time and cost."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"It lets me proactively identify and resolve system issues. This, in terms of, most of the time, really reduces downtime. Because when there are notifications on time when we engage it quickly on time, our downtime is highly reduced. So basically, Prometheus is for monitoring and alerting."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"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."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Prometheus 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Apache SkyWalking. See our AppDynamics vs. Prometheus report.
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