AppDynamics vs. Virtana Optimize

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.

Very suited for medium to the large-sized infrastructure where you have a lot of services to monitor. It may be overkill for small infrastructures where you can use the providers' source of metrics instead.

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• 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.

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• AWS Cost analysis across multiple accounts.
• Identification of orphaned and underutilized resources.
• Easy integration to your AWS account.
• Simple and intuitive user interface.

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• 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

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• It can be tricky to set-up depending on what you want to do.
• They have their own proprietary way of visualizing metrics, which is clever but does have a slight learning curve.

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

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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.

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Anytime we've had issues they have been very responsive and professional.

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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.

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We strongly prefer Metricly for AWS Cost Analysis -- whereas other tools are easier to use on a traditional monitoring basis. To be clear, Merticly's monitoring tools are GREAT, but they require tuning and manual setup that we didn't have the time for on a small Platform Operations team. We have worked closely with Metricly to expand on their cost analysis capabilities, and plan to use them going forward.

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• 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

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• We were able to decrease AWS costs with its predictive analytics by 20% YOY.

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