We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prometheus is praised for its flexibility, integration capabilities, and affordability as an open-source solution. AppDynamics, on the other hand, is considered expensive, has a high learning curve, and poor end-user experience. Although it offers valuable features, its complex infrastructure is a drawback. Prometheus, however, is reliable, has a fast data storage system, and is highly valued for its flexibility and integration capabilities, making it thew preferred solution.
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"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."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The scalability must be improved."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Prometheus 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Apache SkyWalking. See our AppDynamics vs. Prometheus report.
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