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Likelihood to Recommend
AppDynamics
As it pertains to monitoring database transactions, as our application relies heavily on SQL, AppDynamic's monitoring tool made an immediate impact on sorting which ones are slow. The business transactions that we can capture are limited in the sense that our application works where it can't be limited to 200, so we ended having to setup service endpoints to account for it.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesFoglight
It really depends on why my colleague is evaluating Foglight. If it is for Database monitoring and management, I highly recommend it. If it is for anything else, I would encourage them to look at others in this space.
Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer
EsriComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Application Performance Management
AppDynamics
8.6
Foglight
—
Application monitoring
AppDynamics
8.8
Foglight
—
Database monitoring
AppDynamics
8.7
Foglight
—
Threshold alerts
AppDynamics
9.2
Foglight
—
Predictive capabilities
AppDynamics
7.8
Foglight
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Application performance management console
AppDynamics
8.6
Foglight
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Collaboration tools
AppDynamics
8.4
Foglight
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Pros
AppDynamics
- 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.
Senior System Engineer
NetDocumentsComputer Software, 201-500 employees
Foglight
- Foglight NMS is very light on resources given the amount of monitoring connectivity options it provides. It is one of the few that I've trialed in the past that offers SNMP v3 connections.
- The dashboard is concise with the main areas of interest. It can be customized as well if you have a particular use case.
- Setting up alerts is straightforward with the ability to set custom thresholds. Alert emails get sent by configuring a primary mail server with the option to add a backup mail server in the event of a primary mail server outage or connectivity issues.
Sole Proprietor
Zombie ComputersInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Cons
AppDynamics
- 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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesFoglight
- There are not many problems with this product
- Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies
Associate Attorney
Harris Beach PLLCLaw Practice, 201-500 employees
Likelihood to Renew
AppDynamics
We are a reseller of appdynamics

Verified User
Account Manager in Sales
Computer Networking Company, 11-50 employeesFoglight
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
AppDynamics
AppDynamics 8.1
Based on 8 answers
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.
IT Architecture Manager
Edenred MéxicoComputer Software, 501-1000 employees
Foglight
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
AppDynamics
New Relic is only SaaS and keys off of AppDex scoring (i.e. industry baselines) and not on my application's baselines. Where most of our stuff is custom apps, going off of industry wasn't valuable to us. It was also cost prohibitive

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 501-1000 employeesFoglight
Middleware Administrator
Gordon Food ServiceFood Production, 10,001+ employees
Return on Investment
AppDynamics
- 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.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 5001-10,000 employeesFoglight
- For the past 5 years, we heavily leveraged their application synthetic capabilities which caught several outages to our online presence before our users did or as they did, saving us valuable time and money to get back up and running.
- Their ability to deep dive into databases has helped the rollout of our new software, speeding up the time to market. We have been able to identify problems with our code in the staging and development tiers, ensuring we release better, more stable software to our customers.
Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer
EsriComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Pricing Details
AppDynamics
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
AppDynamics Editions & Modules
Edition
APM Pro | $3,3301 |
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APM Advanced | Contact sales team |
APM Peak | Contact sales team |
- per year
Additional Pricing Details
—Foglight
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Foglight Editions & Modules
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