We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE 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."We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to take a report, and in particular, a visual, and link it to actual application performance and then the consequences. This means you can show how an incident or action has an effect on the business."
"Packet decode and bandwidth analysis reports are the two most valuable features."
"The stability of this product is ok."
"The most valuable feature is visibility."
"The most valuable feature of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is it helps customer to understand what risks are in their network. For example, if a customer has some wrong configurations. It could cost them some critical services to slow down."
"For me, the most valuable features are the dashboards which we use to highlight the overall impact to the customers, and being able to drill down into the nitty-gritty of the customer experience."
"The support is good."
"It is the ability to collect data and analyze it, especially key performance indicators. This is before a customer would call to the service center to complain that they have had bad coverage or a dropped call."
"The installation process is straightforward."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"The UI could use a little help."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"The initial setup could be easier."
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"There could log management features included in the product."
"The product was lacking for awhile when they did the Arbor acquisition. I was waiting to see more security stuff, which they did eventually add, and is now impressive."
"There is currently less visibility or GUI to analyse the packet for troubleshooting purposes."
"We would like more encryption of customer data, because we have a very security conscious company. We have a lot of regulation coming in which requires us to make customer data private."
"In previous versions, we used to have an icon on the dashboard when the situation analysis would present an alert. It would be nice if that would be made available on the dashboard again. Something that could be customizable to only illuminate on certain applications."
"Some help screens would be nice, especially if we bring on new operators. It would be great to see if they have more helpful tips available."
"The technical support could improve a bit with quicker responses for early on questions. What I think are simple questions are taking a long time to get answers to."
"A lot of tools highlight what's going on but they don't actually pinpoint the user experience. It would be good if there were a small message or something highlighting what the user experience is like and any degradation that's actually occurring."
"Trying to set up dashboards is hard to figure out at times, if you don't do it every day. It's not really intuitive to set them all up... If there were a wizard to take us through, step-by-step, creating dashboards and the like, that would be really helpful."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is ranked 26th in Network Monitoring Software with 47 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is rated 8.2. 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 NETSCOUT nGeniusONE writes "We use it every day for the triaging of events, saving us a lot of time". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, SolarWinds NPM and Pico Corvil Analytics.
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