We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and ThousandEyes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us... Most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We have highly scalable systems and AppDynamics will help us monitor our load on-prem. Our systems range from simple to the most complex and it gives us the visibility across transactions, in one dashboard."
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"It could do with more than one data centre/multiple AWS accounts in a pane of glass. Also, improved scalability to large environments would be helpful."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"This solution is expensive."
"When you have high stress of visits I do not know if you are more stress because of the amount of visits or because you have to wait eternal 60 seconds to find out it things are going well or you already have mess."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"It's an expensive solution."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while ThousandEyes 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and ManageEngine Applications Manager, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Fortinet FortiSIEM.
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