AppDynamics vs Catchpoint

• Giving a network map of our application that shows where slowdowns are occurring and where network traffic is running into a bottleneck.
• We are able to gather node-specific information that shows the number of sessions a web server or even Redis session statistics.
• We use AppDynamics to give a holistic view of our application allowing us to quickly narrow in on problems.

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• Reporting
• Customized scripts

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• Price of the AppDynamics is high. But it has many valuable features. This makes it difficult for small businesses to enter.
• Functionality is overkill for most small to midsize businesses (SMBs). When stacking up product units, it can get pricey for enterprises as well.
• With fine granular configs and customizations available, it will also mean that it is very complicated and requires a certain amount of knowledge before we can make full use of all features in the product. Much careful thought and planning is required to get the most of it. Set-up will be longer. One recommendation is for features to be better documented.

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• Would like Catchpoint to replace awful canned scheduled reports with customized ad-hoc reports built from the Performance tab.
• Pricing for Catchpoint Points is too high. Limits the number of tests we use.

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• AppDynamics isn't cheap, but it definitely helps to ensure our applications and APIs are up and running without issue. The alerting is usually good but occasionally mixed, for example sometimes flagging a single error as a critical issue since the API is usually completely error free.
• The cost saving in terms of trouble shooting and analyzing issues in production is fantastic - to know about issues before they are reported by customers enables you to be proactive in resolving them and ensuring maximum up time for our applications.

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• It's very helpful to run tests after a deployment or release, so we can quickly see at the results before investing time on testing manually or running other tools.
• It provides alerts, so we can be aware of errors even during the weekends (when our engineering team is not usually looking at the application).

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