AppDynamics

AppDynamics

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AppDynamics	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	AppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.	N/A

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Community Pulse
	AppDynamics
Considered Both Products	AppDynamics Anuj Rai Senior Associate Technology Chose AppDynamics AppDynamics is a really stronger competitor in comparison to any other application monitoring tools like New relic, Dynatrace etc. since it's have a unified platform to see every kind of metrics reported by the agent. That's makes AppDynamics one of the best monitoring solution … Helpful? Michelle Ritson Sales And Marketing Specialist Chose AppDynamics It is distinguished from these programs because the platform provides visualizations of application processes, showing the interplay between various parts and services. Understanding the architecture of complicated apps and finding their weak spots is greatly aided by this. Helpful? Libby Schee Human Resources Administrative Assistant Chose AppDynamics It differs from these programs because it integrates seamlessly with a wide range of technologies and platforms and has strong integration capabilities, a crucial factor in adapting to different technology stacks. Helpful? Mary Smith Project Manager Chose AppDynamics AppDynamics excels at delivering extensive insights into the performance of apps at the code level. It enables developers to zero in on certain lines of code or modules that are causing performance difficulties, making it possible for more effective debugging and optimization. … Helpful? Tony Kiema Software Engineer Chose AppDynamics It's easy to customize alerts into easy notifications, view everything in a graphical manner, and it's easy to understand. AppDynamics helps us to understand and monitor our network and servers related issues before they cause an impact on our business processes or clients. … Helpful? Apeksha Jain Hopital Manager Chose AppDynamics I have used Splunk for a short period. It was difficult to connect with the server and it takes much time to connect with the central server but AppDynamics is quite fast in it. Plus the service handlers for Splunk were a little ignorant their response was usually late in … Helpful? AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Chose AppDynamics Unfortunately, I wasn't in the company when the decision was made, hence can tell just because. What I can tell from my experience, it was not a bad choice and alternatives like New Relic or Datadog provide more or less similar functionality. In most cases the main reasons are … Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose AppDynamics AppDymanics and Solarwinds was a good products at application and website monitoring. For SQL monitoring AppDymanics was the superior product is it found several queries that were slowing down the server while Solarwinds could not find any issues. The version of Nagios that we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose AppDynamics I have worked on many Cisco applications and I am very much positive about support from Cisco. The same type of support reputation has been maintained by Cisco in the case of AppDynamics, too. The AppDynamics suite itself is a very trustworthy monitoring application that I have … Incentivized Helpful? BW Brad Welsh Program Manager Chose AppDynamics Overall value...AppDynamics won out in cost, support, and data returned for applications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose AppDynamics Ease of use, the fast pace of the product growth. Analytics and BiQ is a huge bonus for adding value to Business who ultimately are the owners as they pay for AppDynamics. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose AppDynamics The bank has some legacy application infrastructures that only AppD can monitor. no other competitors can monitor it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose AppDynamics AppDynamics is more a graphical representation of data, where as other tools like Splunk shows data in a table format using Query structure. AppDynamics helps is in analyzing system performance, but other tools just help to log the data and send alerts upon manual setting. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose AppDynamics We haven't evaluate any other product. AppDynamics was what we required at that time. Incentivized Helpful? Silviya (Vasileva) Marcu Busness development manager Chose AppDynamics AppDynamics falls under Cisco's Full Stack Observability and is now deeplyintegrated with Thousand Eyes, Secure App and Intersight covering addional monitoring layes that no other solution out there does well. Helpful? Nikhil Kumar Sharma Solutions Architect and COE Lead Chose AppDynamics AppDynamics is the legacy product with the most experienced in the APM side of the business. Due to its duration in the market product has evolved and has matured to a certain level that other products have not been reached yet which gives an edge from the branding perspective. Incentivized Helpful? RS Rafael Santos Monitoring Specialist Chose AppDynamics Cisco's AppDynamics solution has been used for several years because it has a low level of complexity for registering alarms, editing dashboards, instrumenting monitoring agents, managing user credentials, and integrating with other systems, stability, and low volume of new … Incentivized Helpful? Mohammad Anas Application Development Analyst Chose AppDynamics AppDynamics is easy to use when compared with Datadog and provide rich user interface. We prefer AppDynamics as it gives more data insight. We can easily install the AppDynamics agent and integrate with application. Also AppDynamics subscription cost was in budget with our … Incentivized Helpful? William Guertin CloudOps Manager Infrastructure Chose AppDynamics We actually have different development teams using both of these tools currently. They are both very good at providing application monitoring. They in some ways have the same flaws. App Dynamics seems very focused on the end-to-end evaluation of the application and New Relic … Incentivized Helpful? Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead Chose AppDynamics AppDynamics is still a good solution as this is one the earliest tool available in the APM space and people are used to this Application usage. However other products are also doing great as Dynatrace is the biggest competitor since it adds on all the AppDynamics features plus … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose AppDynamics I didnt like any of the functionality or the layout this application provided. I saw the growth with AppDynamics and the possible potential mainly because we have visibility to the actual application code. This is one of the best options by far to ensure the vendor fixes bugs … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose AppDynamics Before having purchase decision, we went through PoC study and evalute the tools in APM market. I am listing key areas that Appdynamics provided better results. - Out of the box database performans monitoring features. - Aggressive pricing strategy Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose AppDynamics AppDynamics is almost the same as New Relic and I would say they both are at the same level. Datadog is infrastructure monitoring and AppDynamics can catch up on this impact. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose AppDynamics AppDynamics perfectly does the job and does more. We choose it after a successful POC that showed its efficiency from the trenches. Incentivized Helpful? Randi Yeaman Inside Sales & Lab Chose AppDynamics NA Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Drill down Pro Real time Pro Application monitoring
Top Cons	Minus Set up Minus Learning curve Minus Infrastructure monitoring

Features

AppDynamics

Application Performance Management

Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
	AppDynamics 8.4 59 Ratings 10% above category average
Application monitoring	9.359 Ratings
Database monitoring	7.758 Ratings
Threshold alerts	9.058 Ratings
Predictive capabilities	7.757 Ratings
Application performance management console	8.857 Ratings
Collaboration tools	7.947 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring	8.430 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting	8.729 Ratings

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User Ratings
	AppDynamics
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (59 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.1 (6 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AppDynamics
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco Platforms for software as a service (SaaS) frequently cater to a large number of users with a variety of needs and usage patterns. Because AppDynamics offers multi-tenant monitoring capabilities to track performance across various customer environments, it is a good choice for SaaS platform monitoring. SaaS providers can maximize resource utilization, proactively detect and resolve performance issues, and provide a dependable and consistent user experience for their clients with AppDynamics. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Cisco AppDynamics delves deeply into traceability and profiling at the code level. By identifying and refactoring any hidden performance hogs in our code, we can directly observe the performance improvements. AppDynamics provides real-time dashboards and in-depth insights into each layer of the application stack, lifting the curtain on performance. AppDynamics gives us the ability to proactively detect and resolve performance issues. We are able to keep things running smoothly for our users and stop outages. We can monitor stability and performance prior to, during, and following releases with AppDynamics, which helps to minimize regression risks and facilitate smooth rollouts. Incentivized Ayesha Tabassum Software Engineer Read full review
Cons	Cisco Improving the clarity and comprehensiveness of the documentation could benefit users. Clearer documentation ensures that users can make the most of all the functionalities Leverages AI and machine learning for intelligent insights, aiding in issue identification and prediction. Competitive, with AI-driven features becoming increasingly common in APM solutions. Libby Schee Human Resources Administrative Assistant Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Cisco its working for us, we are familiar and comfortable with the tool and its proven valuable/indispensable in helping evaluate our code. Incentivized William Guertin CloudOps Manager Infrastructure Read full review
Support Rating	Cisco AppDynamics has its own community site that includes forums and a knowledge base. On the forums, you can converse with other members of the community and ask technical questions as you have them. Though this forum isn’t filled with people there are active members for you to gain some valuable insights. Incentivized Eduin Zuloaga IT Architecture Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco It is distinguished from these programs because the platform provides visualizations of application processes, showing the interplay between various parts and services. Understanding the architecture of complicated apps and finding their weak spots is greatly aided by this. Michelle Ritson Sales And Marketing Specialist Read full review
Return on Investment	Cisco AppDynamics has played a pivotal role in optimizing our applications for a seamless user experience. The proactive monitoring and quick issue resolution have translated into improved user satisfaction and increased retention rates. The initial cost and effort associated with implementing AppDynamics might be considered a negative impact, particularly for organizations with budget constraints. However, the long-term benefits have justified this initial investment. Mary Smith Project Manager Read full review
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