AppDynamics vs Foglight

• AppDynamics provides an excellent overview of all the interactions between all of your various applications, providing a high-level view of the overall health of the whole application and any interactions or elements that are unhealthy can be seen from here.
• AppDynamics focusses on Business Transactions, rather than overall application or server performance, meaning you can quickly see if one part of the system is not working as it should, meaning production issues are shown clearly as isolated problems (if they are) rather than overall application health problems.
• AppDynamics provides excellent functionality with regards to tracing coding exceptions - errors can easily be drilled down to the method or line of code that is problematic.
• AppDynamics is hugely flexible allowing very fine grained configuration and customisation.

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• Integration with platforms
• Uniformity
• Pinpointing of issues

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• It's just so complicated - it takes a while to get to grips with and needs careful thought and planning to get the most out of it. AppDynamics do provide excellent support for this though and will guide you.
• It doesn't list out enough Database Transactions in the APM licencing model.

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• GUI interface is difficult to navigate
• No APM capabilities. They left this space about a year ago
• We have had issues with the GUI response times. On a regular basis, the interface can take several minutes to refresh

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• Automate and remediate app issues
• Clients visibility of business transactions
• Visibility of server health

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• 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.

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