We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: With a wider range of features including alerting for issues, release management capabilities, and business insights, AppDynamics is scalable, stable, and easy to use. It offers the ability to monitor applications of different technologies and manage log files, whereas SolarWinds lacks code-level monitoring of applications and software-defined network monitoring capability. AppDynamics also has better customer support and an optimized dashboard, although it is more expensive.
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"The ability to check parameters for microservice applications is most valuable. It is important for me. I can manually create new business transactions for applications and individually monitor business transactions. I can also use a lot of extensions. It has a lot of extensions to monitor other third-party applications, such as NoSQL applications, memory cache applications, Kafka applications, and Couchbase applications. It is very useful. We are also using the end-user monitoring site to follow all end-user activities. It is important for us to check the errors on the customer site."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"It's made it easier to collaborate across teams; be able to have the same data immediately in front of you just by sharing a URL."
"Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"We have been able to monitor our applications more accurately."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"SolarWinds is a very stable platform compared to others on the market."
"The application dependency feature identifies issues between applications and servers or within the network where the application is hosted. It highlights related problems, whether related to packet processing or other issues, enabling the creation of alerts and reports accordingly."
"The solution can be deployed quickly."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"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 AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve by having a cloud version. They have an observability platform but it still needs to be maintained by us."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Nagios XI and ServiceNow Discovery. See our AppDynamics vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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