We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and AppDynamics Database Monitoring based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ability to discover and track transactions."
"AppDynamics is a good tool that offers excellent out-of-the-box dashboards and application topology."
"The ability to identify the top running queries has been extremely valuable for us."
"The solution is very, very stable. We haven't faced any bugs or glitches on the system."
"The features related to the application performance in AppDynamics Database Monitoring are the most valuable."
"In my experience, it's easy to use. There's nothing complex to learn or fear. You can quickly adapt to it without the need for extensive training."
"AppDynamics is scalable. They can monitor billions of transactions because they're not monitoring all transactions. They're monitoring samples. So, they can offer good monitoring for the huge sites."
"The feature that is most valuable to us is the snapshot feature. It allows us to get a snapshot of different SQL scripts that are being executed simultaneously and we can identify everything we need on them."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"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."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"The application end of AppDynamics Database Monitoring needs to improve by checking which applications consume licenses."
"Stability-wise, we experienced some performance issues when upgrading from 4.4 to 4.5."
"The solution should add some monitoring similar to Oracle monitoring tools for databases. It has a lot of features to monitor SQL queries, and make some recommendation to resolve it. AppDynamics is just monitoring for delays and doesn't provide any recommendations for that. It's a deficiency."
"They could align the product strategy to evolve as a complete solution."
"This product has an issue with initial lag upon opening that we would like to see improved."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The product's drawback is the licensing pricing. It could be better."
"The solution needs to support IBM products."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while AppDynamics Database Monitoring is ranked 19th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while AppDynamics Database Monitoring is rated 7.8. 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 AppDynamics Database Monitoring writes "Good application performance features along with a very simple and tool navigation". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas AppDynamics Database Monitoring is most compared with Dynatrace and AWS X-Ray. See our AppDynamics vs. AppDynamics Database Monitoring report.
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