AppDynamics

It handles auto-monitoring / configuring a dynamic performance set point that doesn't require manual configuration and the perspective is more end to end which from one perspective is good because you get a view of the whole application end to end but there is less focus than on actual response time to the end-user and detailed breakdown which is in some sense the ultimate purpose of performance monitoring.

No doubt AppDynamics is high tech APM solution that offers easy to configure application space monitoring, tracing, mapping also some sort of event collection and monitoring, however, it lacks certain things which I believe are pretty important as the new standards are being evolved for business means one such example is Observability i.e. visibility of not just application but underlying infra, users, platform and correlation among them is what still required in AppDynamics.

If application breakdown is impacting your business operations and you are unable to identify the root cause of the problem such as whether the issue is because of the hardware, database, network or application, or something else then AppDynamics fits in and provides easy to detect root cause with simple steps of configuration

Recommend for large corporations with a high volume of business and transactions. I don't recommend it for small and medium businesses.

The database monitoring piece of the application is not something I would recommend to people mainly because there are far better database monitoring agents available in the market.

I would like to recommend two features that make Appdynamics look strong. For business people and users, it has nice built-in dashboards for mobile and web application monitoring like visitors location details, top requested pages/transactions, error details, etc. For tech ops teams, especially teams in charge of application or infrastructure management; automatic topology discovery is the most important part and helps them to identify issues at first look. It shows you the real-time error rate and application health in a single figure.

Excellent tool for Application monitoring. Can be combined with Performance tests to understand pain points in the application and improve Setting up alarms/notification on an excellent UI is awesome. If you want to fine-tune performance issues looking at various layers of architecture like middle layer, DB layer, etc.., this tool is a perfect fit. Areas that are not best fit - In my opinion, If you want to do infrastructure monitoring AppDynamics is not yet there. Eventually, it will catch up is what I think.

Very useful if you want to monitor multi-server complex architectures involving different technologies and IT teams. Very useful to proactively detect or prevent slowness on load increase. I think AppDynamics would be far less appropriate for small companies or "simple" software, or when you have to deal with it alone (without support for setup, learning, features activation, and troubleshooting).

Since AppDynamics is not open source monitoring tool like Nagios, it has many advanced features likes drilling the issues at code level and identifying the potential class and method responsible for the issue save the time of developer instead of going through the entire code, now he has the code line number to fix.
Flow graph of application helps understanding how the services are performing across different tier and which service need improvement.
Setting up health rules is quite dynamic so now you don't have to depend on static number for threshold for triggering alert. Alert can be triggered on the basis of standard deviations and mathematical formula.

AppDynamics monitoring solution is quite expensive so if a medium enterprise who have budget constraints for performance engineering department can check for other open source tools and setting up AppDynamics requires huge infrastructure so procurement of those resources is overhead.

Very well suited for Internet monitoring and for understanding the issues, 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. Very flexible.

When you don't have any idea about how your environment is really working, this application will help you, for sure. When you already know your environment, but don't have more ideas of what's happening, this application is also for you. When you know your environment, already monitor, and want to have a better opinion of how your application is working, what [t] really does, how [it's] impacted by other applications, AppDynamics [is] again, your application. I didn't know any scenario, except price, that this application shouldn't work.

This product is great if you need to have a dashboard that will give you information in real-time about the health of your databases. This product is well suited for applications that involve very large data volumes, where performance management is essential when you are constantly rolling out new updates.

Drilling to the root level of the issue is possible with this tool. Project functions are awesome. It integrates well with load runner, [thus] making performance testing a bliss.
It helps finding the bottlenecks from the code as we can extract exact method and class names from the code.
Web applications monitored [is] a breeze. Great analytical dashboards. Monitoring infrastructure is also great using this tool.

This product is great for very big organizations with complicated products that are business critical. For example, for managing and monitoring millions of transactions. It is not a great product if you are trying to monitor small software apps and don't have that much complexity. You can look at other options. Also, it does not make sense if Budget [is] a key factor.

Monitoring it is good but for memory monitoring they have room for improvement. Also need to enhance the OS level dump support. Infra level AWS extension are good but still need to improve some things. Web server monitoring is good and best for all the scenarios. Dell level microservices monitoring is good in this application.

Well suited for managing and reviewing data points across thousands of metrics and being able to zoom into the most granular details for performance investigations. It could be overwhelming for a non-technical user to work with but the visual outputs help share data with them in a way that trends can be understood.

We have successfully deployed AppDynamics to Solaris, Linux, and Windows servers - both physical and virtual. After we overcame our learning curve we were able to deploy to our entire suite of applications which span about 32 technologies.

The support team was thrown some challenges by us and they solved them all.

We execute various types of performance testing such as load testing, stress testing, endurance testing, and spike testing on the daily basis in various environments. It was tough to detect and monitor the performance issues for each type of performance testing, but using AppDynamics, it is possible to create a trend in bottleneck detection. When the performance testing projects integrated with CI/CD pipeline, then the AppDynamics plugin helps a lot. for example, if there is a performance degradation, it allows the job to be failed.

For us, on a business scale it compiles all of our data into one dashboard to monitor the connectivity of the servers.

I have not come across any problems with support.

AppDynamics has been really helpful to assure uptime with our environment. The best future is the graphic interface.

I think that our reseller was new with AppDynamics, but at the end of the implementation we managed to solve everything.

I like AppDynamics very much because it helps me to control in a more efficient way the apps that I am [deploying] in the cloud. It offers detailed data, it has a light load on the server, it helps to find errors easily and it constantly monitors the stability and the performance of the apps. it allows me to follow the interactions on our website and APIs and improve with this data the processes of sales, production and marketing.

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's useful if you find it difficult to find the origin of the problem or if you have those problems that seem to come and go constantly.

They have given us excellent service, always being present to support us.

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.

We did purchase paid support but it also included help with the initial setup. Our experience with their technical team has been positive, they are knowledgeable and are on top of any questions/issues we have raised.

AppDynamics supports all the major technology stacks (end to end) which is a great advantage and also, the alerts, health rules, email/SMS integration is simple to use and it requires less expertise to manage.

Using AppDynamics to gain insights into our application through the view of the endpoint which can be a web server, SQL Database or our storage systems, has provided our support teams the ability to narrow in on problems very quickly by looking at our application from a holistic view. We have been able to isolate a specific error and determine where in the application stack that occurs to determine if there is a coding problem or an issue with how the server communicates with other subsystems.