What is AppDynamics?
AppDynamics APM automatically discovers, maps, and visualizes your critical customer journeys through each application service and infrastructure dependency. Teams have a single source of truth to focus on end-to-end performance in the context of the customer experience, instead of monitoring individual services.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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98 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love AppDynamics?
Pros
- Respectful
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment
Transaction Request Performance
Code Performance Monitoring
Automated Diagnostics
Application Metric Reporting
Application Request Tracing
Enterprise Cloud Platform Support
Server Monitoring
Error Reporting
Scalability
Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Data Integration
Quality of Features
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Implementation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
Ease of Customization
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AppDynamics Reviews
Muhammet A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2022
Very useful product but pricey .
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?
AppDynamics is more up-to-date product than others.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
There are lots of plugins in AppDynamics marketplace.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's pricey so buying thousands of APM agents needs big budget.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I like using AppDynamics it's very useful product for me but I recommend to demo other products, find which one really suit your expectations after that decide to purchase.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Security Protects
Stephanie B.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2022
Great for monitoring and troubleshooting.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?
We keep an eye on the server's and the application's health using our health graph. As a result of the graphical representation of your obvious concerns, we have network warnings set up as well. Monitoring the performance of production servers and debugging the performance of applications Our program is complex, requiring teams to manage the full application stack and many integration layers, Appdynamics provides us with a comprehensive image that eliminates several obstacles to solving important issues. With the help of Hazelcast Distributed Cache, we created a caching solution, and several nodes are now active for various microservices.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
AppDynamics is a fantastic tool for keeping track of business operations as well as infrastructure like servers, databases, and API endpoints. Installing an AppDynamics client on the infrastructure we want to monitor is all that is required for it to connect to the application, such as Spring Boot, by just supplying the tier. The notifications are incredibly simple to personalize, and everything is displayed graphically. Before a customer is impacted by server or network problems, we constantly watch for them. Using AppDynamics, we were also able to find problems on our web server that were previously thought to be application problems.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Despite being a client operating on the nodes we want to monitor, it has no control over the infrastructure. We can only log in to the server or use Splunk to inspect the log; there are no other choices. If you can also offer such service, it would be great. We have occasionally encountered blank charts as a result of internal problems. It merely serves as a monitoring tool, emphasizing all the positive aspects like memory use, disk utilization, etc. Whether the instances it runs on start or cease is unaffected by it. A self-healing mechanism is necessary so that these duties can be accomplished without the assistance of outside forces.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Appdynamics is an excellent option for swiftly troubleshooting application performance and monitoring issues that might otherwise need a significant amount of time and effort.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Trace'McF J.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2022
An ideal platform to monitor and alert systems
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?
It is quite easy to locate specific data and is not buried under a dozen other options. The bulk of the desired metric points is calculated and shown in the app right away. It's simple to configure, show, and notify on finer details. SaaS is superior to on-premise alternatives for large implementations. The on-premises version works well for smaller footprints.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The alerting system is robust and has various criteria that can be defined for health rules. The support offers excellent service and is relatively quick to respond. The learning tools provided through their academy cover everything you might need to know with the device. Out-of-the-box data collection is easy and very comprehensive, with minimal configuration required.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The effort-to-value ratio is far higher than anticipated. Since each application is unique, it is challenging to develop patterns and cookies. - It's expensive and difficult to find skilled personnel who can utilize a product's full potential. Sometimes information in the documentation is inaccurate, especially regarding extensions that are not timely updated.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Logging, unique metrics, tracing, and metadata With all of that, you can see the big picture, track the inner call stack traces, and identify the primary issue. Additionally, you may monitor your application by creating dashboards based on custom metrics. We suggested it because the program is excellent.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity