AppDynamics vs. Azure Monitor

AppDynamics is well suited to large IT organizations ie telcos where there is legacy combined with modern systems ie containerized environments and cloud deployments, mobile, web as well as onprem. AppDynamics can follow the transactions into all of these areas and provide a single view on the health of the systems.

We were able to get a single pane of glass for all our monitoring needs on Azure Monitor. However, we would like to see it improve to auto scale out and scale in depending on the load without human intervention. This can help us get to the No Ops model and rely on automated processes rather than manual intervention.

Incentivized

• you can easily identify where there is a problem in the code at the time of error.
• With Network Visibility, you can see how much bandwidth your applications are using between nodes.
• You can easily detect SQL statements or stored procedures that consume most of the system resources and get statistical data.

Incentivized

• It supports all the Azure PAAS services.
• Can monitor both infrastructure and application

Incentivized

• Data Privacy is the most concerning thing with AppDynamics and the SSO authentication is very limited
• During load testing the graph output is not as expected and delayed
• Sometime Server details in the portal is missing in real time, which can indeed cause issue in long term and during performance tracking

Incentivized

• Custom metrics
• Ease of use

Incentivized

its working for us, we are familiar and comfortable with the tool and its proven valuable/indispensable in helping evaluate our code.

Incentivized

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

I have not had to work with Azure Monitor support, so it is difficult to say how well the support team is. I assume that Azure has a well-versed team on the customer service side to assist with any issues customers may have. I may need them in the feature.

Incentivized

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 organization that result in overall business growth.

Incentivized

While other tools have their own unique capability, Azure Monitor helps us monitor essential PAAS services that are not supported by other tools. So even though we have one other APM tool, we still rely on Azure Monitor for some of the special PAAS services, this is a huge advantage.

Incentivized

• Platform map drilldown capabilities and code-level visibility helped us to find the root cause of problems faster
• Threshold alerts made proactive problem handling easier
• Data capture module helped us to link technical data with business data and support customers far more efficiently

Incentivized

• We are able to react quickly to the issues.
• Debugging sessions are yielding quicker results to generate RCA.

Incentivized