We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Honeycomb.io 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."The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"The training on the dashboards that is provided could be a little bit better, as could the use cases. They should have some good examples out there. As it is right now, I had to scour YouTube to find some stuff."
"At this time, we don't have much visibility on the virtual environment, monitoring, and all other things. We have visibility only for database monitoring, and we have noticed performance impact when deploying database agents on the database server. We got to know this from AppDynamics support also that we should not deploy database agents from the database server. When agents are deployed on the same server and the database is monitored from there, we are not getting database server metrics. Therefore, we don't have those insights, and sometimes, we struggle because of that. They can improve this functionality so that we do not have a performance impact, and we can deploy anywhere. This would help us a lot. In terms of end-user monitoring, currently, it is not working for us because there are some complexities. It is a little complicated, and it takes a little bit of time to understand where you need to make changes. It would be very helpful if they can provide some template designs for end-user monitoring. When our servers are running on VMs, we don't get many insights from the VM side. I don't know whether it is possible to have visibility beyond the database, server, and application and whether there are some features where we can deploy AppDynamics on VMs as well. Such functionality would give us more control over storage, VM, OS, and database. It will also provide complete visibility of our hardware and software."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Honeycomb.io 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 Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Chronosphere, Azure Monitor and Sematext Synthetics.
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