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What is AppDynamics?

AppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.

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  • Application monitoring (59)
    9.3
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  • Threshold alerts (58)
    9.0
    90%
  • Predictive capabilities (57)
    7.7
    77%
  • Database monitoring (58)
    7.7
    77%

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What is AppDynamics?

AppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.

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Application Performance Management

Application performance management software monitors software to ensure performance and availability

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Product Details

What is AppDynamics?

AppDynamics delivers real-time access to every aspect of an organization's business and operational performance, so they can anticipate problems, resolve them automatically, and make smarter, more certain business decisions. Application intelligence provides the user with business and operational insights into application performance, user experience and business impact of their software applications.

AppDynamics Features

Application Performance Management Features

  • Supported: Application monitoring
  • Supported: Database monitoring
  • Supported: Threshold alerts
  • Supported: Predictive capabilities
  • Supported: Application performance management console
  • Supported: Collaboration tools
  • Supported: Server availability and performance monitoring
  • Supported: Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting

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AppDynamics Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry

Frequently Asked Questions

AppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.

New Relic and Datadog are common alternatives for AppDynamics.

Reviewers rate Application monitoring highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of AppDynamics are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
AppDynamics helps us conduct root cause analysis when performance problems arise by combining data from several application infrastructure components. We can identify the precise source of errors or bottlenecks, regardless of whether they come from database queries, external dependencies, or application code, thanks to features like transaction tracing and code-level visibility. We can quickly identify and diagnose problems because AppDynamics gives us real-time visibility into the performance of our applications. We track important metrics like throughput, error rates, response times, and resource usage in every tier of our application stack.
  • I was able to track a user request as it moved through the different parts of your application stack with the assistance of AppDynamics' end-to-end transaction tracing feature. This feature aids in pinpointing the precise locations of latency or failure in a transaction, be it in database queries, backend services, or frontend code.
  • AppDynamics provides in-depth analysis of my application code's performance. The architecture of the application, including method calls and database interactions, can be automatically found and mapped.
  • AppDynamics allows for continuous monitoring and automation throughout the software development lifecycle by integrating seamlessly with well-known DevOps tools like Jenkins, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
  • New users' learning curves may be lowered by streamlining the configuration procedure and offering more user-friendly interfaces.
  • AppDynamics could be more widely available to users if more affordable options or tiered licensing schemes were offered.
  • AppDynamics could automate performance prediction, root cause analysis, and anomaly detection by utilizing AI and machine learning.
Platforms for software as a service (SaaS) frequently cater to a large number of users with a variety of needs and usage patterns. Because AppDynamics offers multi-tenant monitoring capabilities to track performance across various customer environments, it is a good choice for SaaS platform monitoring. SaaS providers can maximize resource utilization, proactively detect and resolve performance issues, and provide a dependable and consistent user experience for their clients with AppDynamics.
Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
AppDynamics is one of the best application performance monitoring tools out in the market which gives you end to end visibility about application stack, infrastructure. Since it is been used by different teams for troubleshooting different issues like performance tester for identifying bugs like memory leakage, performance enhancement. For developers code optimization before realising it in the production environment and for production support folks it's quite handy tool for resolving critical production issue hence reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR). AppDynamics is a single platform with different modules to discover the stack of application or infrastructure.

  • AppDynamics community support is really strong so even if you are not premium member of its product. You can reach out to community regarding your issue and the resolution is quite strong.
  • Documentation maintained with each version support is quite good. So make sure if you looking for any kind of implementation do check the version as every new version they release new feature and fix the bugs of previous version.
  • Trial product is really good as they provide this option of running controller in the cloud without you getting your hands dirty with installation parts and checking the ports numbers that need to be opened for communication purpose.
  • In terms of dashboard I believe there is plenty of room for improvement as it's lacking many advance like searching data within the dashboard is not possible.
  • Synthetic monitoring part is still complex and need[s] to be addressed as hosting agents for synthetic monitoring is still [a] challenging task.
  • The on premise controller setup requires huge resources and since it's the important component of AppDynamics ignoring it will cause loss of metrics and slowness while capturing metrics.
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.
Ayesha Tabassum | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AppDynamics enables me to rapidly determine the underlying cause of performance problems by tracking transactions through the application's multiple tiers. With AppDynamics, I can dig deep into particular source code and transactions to find performance hotspots and maximize their effectiveness. This assists me in identifying places where I can optimize database queries or debug code. Like a hawk, AppDynamics monitors and records exceptions and errors. We are able to recognize trends, identify reoccurring problems, and stop them before they disrupt our users.
  • AppDynamics delves deeply into traceability and profiling at the code level. By identifying and refactoring any hidden performance hogs in our code, we can directly observe the performance improvements.
  • AppDynamics provides real-time dashboards and in-depth insights into each layer of the application stack, lifting the curtain on performance.
  • AppDynamics gives us the ability to proactively detect and resolve performance issues. We are able to keep things running smoothly for our users and stop outages.
  • We can monitor stability and performance prior to, during, and following releases with AppDynamics, which helps to minimize regression risks and facilitate smooth rollouts.
  • AppDynamics may enhance its capacity to track transactions through complex distributed systems and microservices, offering a more comprehensive understanding of application behavior.
  • Better search and filtering capabilities would enable engineers to quickly obtain deeper context by drilling down into individual data points.
  • AppDynamics might be more widely available to engineers and organizations if it offered subscription plans or tiered pricing options.
The AI-powered suggestions from AppDynamics were crucial in helping us maximize our use of resources. In order to handle peak traffic, we had to continuously scale up our infrastructure, which resulted in needless expenses. AppDynamics recommended streamlining database queries and caching strategies, which led to a 20% decrease in resource usage without compromising performance. We were able to invest in other areas of our application while saving a substantial amount of money thanks to this.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
One of our primary use case with AppDynamics is to understand the journey of our users by analyzing and observing their clicking frequency and pattern. Through AppDynamics, we are easily able to deliver better and improved user experiences. Additionally, we get an improved visibility into our application performance which is enabling us to improve our overall revenue.
  • The dashboards reports are very much actionable and insightful
  • AppDynamics has a simple one click performance monitoring feature which I like
  • Catalog updating for ecommerce is very much simplified and time saving.
  • The application flow map is not very user friendly
  • The actualization is not very straightforward and affects the effectiveness of integrations.
  • More integrations are needed with third party applications
One of the best things that we are able to achieve with AppDynamics is the effective performance monitoring of our application. Also, troubleshooting our application whenever there is an issue is pretty much very simple and much needed for us. Being a cloud based solution, AppDynamics also provides us with great overall stability and security.
Michelle Ritson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At the strategic level, AppDynamics provides invaluable insights into the correlation between application performance and business outcomes. This data aids decision-makers in making informed choices for future planning and resource allocation, contributing to the organization's strategic goals.
  • When an issue arises, AppDynamics shines in root cause analysis. For example, it provides a comprehensive breakdown of the factors contributing to a performance problem. This detailed analysis accelerates the troubleshooting process, allowing our teams to address the root cause swiftly and effectively.
  • For larger teams, improved collaboration features within the tool could streamline communication and cooperation. This could include features like shared dashboards, collaborative troubleshooting, or integrated communication channels, fostering better teamwork.
Organizations seeking a unified platform for monitoring applications, user experiences, infrastructure, and business metrics find AppDynamics suitable. Its centralized approach simplifies monitoring across the entire IT environment.AppDynamics has given us with a competitive edge in the industry. Our technological edge is in our capacity to proactively monitor and improve applications, which allows us to attract clients that place a premium on service dependability and performance.
Libby Schee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
AppDynamics isn't just about applications; it offers a unified platform for monitoring the entire IT environment. This includes infrastructure, user experiences, and business metrics. The scope is broad, providing a centralized view that simplifies monitoring and troubleshooting across the organization.
  • AppDynamics excels in creating dynamic baselines for application performance. For instance, during periods of varying workloads, it automatically adjusts performance baselines. This adaptive baseline creation helps in accurately detecting anomalies and deviations, ensuring that abnormal behavior is quickly identified and addressed.
  • The scalability of an organization's apps can be evaluated with the assistance of AppDynamics. It gives insights into how effectively programs can handle increased workloads, helping to proactively address scalability concerns before they impair performance.
  • Improving the clarity and comprehensiveness of the documentation could benefit users. Clearer documentation ensures that users can make the most of all the functionalities
  • Leverages AI and machine learning for intelligent insights, aiding in issue identification and prediction.
  • Competitive, with AI-driven features becoming increasingly common in APM solutions.
In scenarios where proactively preventing performance issues is a priority, AppDynamics shines. Its machine learning capabilities and automatic baselining help predict and address potential problems before they impact users. If an organization has relatively simple monitoring needs and doesn't require the advanced features provided by AppDynamics, simpler and more cost-effective monitoring tools may be a better fit.
Mary Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In ourdevelopment team, AppDynamics is the go-to tool for code-level visibility. It helps us identify performance bottlenecks, optimize code, and ensure our applications run smoothly. The scope extends to continuous improvement, with a focus on enhancing the overall user experience.
  • AppDynamics provides real-time insights into application performance. For instance, during high-traffic events, it accurately tracks response times, transaction rates, and error rates. This real-time monitoring ensures that any performance issues are identified and addressed promptly, maintaining a seamless user experience.
  • AppDynamics is noted for its scalability and versatility. It's flexible enough to meet the requirements of both large and small companies. Its flexibility and scalability make it a good fit for anything from simple web apps to large-scale enterprise networks.
  • AppDynamics AppDynamics helps enterprises to monitor and trace specific business transactions. This is very helpful for learning how various transactions influence the overall performance of an application. Transaction timings, mistake rates, and successful/failed transaction outcomes are areas where it shines.
  • The initial setup process of AppDynamics could be more user-friendly. Some users find the configuration and onboarding to be a bit complex. Improving the onboarding experience could make it more accessible, especially for smaller teams or those with limited resources.
  • It can be difficult for some users to get AppDynamics up and running for the first time. For new users, the platform's usability might be improved by streamlining the onboarding process or providing more user-friendly setup wizards.
With its sophisticated tools and all-encompassing strategy, AppDynamics provides reliable application performance monitoring. While there is a learning curve and some expense associated with this approach, the benefits it provides to enhancing application speed make it worthwhile.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
AppDynamics is very useful in our company for monitoring and visualization of our database server and it has allowed efficient troubleshooting of errors or speed performance related issues with our database tool <br>It has allowed to have a full control of the database tool and get insight on the performance of it.
  • Monitoring and managing the performance of our database Infrastructure.
  • Insight provision through reports about performance of this application
  • I really can't state any con so far, this tool has been wonderful beyond my imagination.
On my own view, overall IT staff find Appdynamics to be an essential tool for monitoring their apps performance hence improving loading speed of these apps. It helps them with insight and it is much suitable in IT department.
Tony Kiema | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As an Engineer, without a doubt, I know AppDynamics is one of the best application monitoring tools that we use to monitor our apps, datasets, and servers. I like how this tool shows the metrics of server health, disk usage, CPU utilization, memory utilization, network, and Disk I/O. It also continuously posts the server and database status by sending alerts, which helps us to make data-driven decisions. Overall, my user experience has been great regarding this tool, providing all the metrics to monitor efficiently. The price is relatively cost-effective.
  • Provides all the metrics to monitor our datasets, servers and apps.
  • Simple and straightforward UI, which makes it easy to use this tool for non-technical staff.
  • Detecting situations that may cause problems in advance. Helps us to proactively solve problems before they affect us.
  • Enables us to monitor our apps instantly by creating end-user monitoring analytics and dashboards.
  • Great customer support.
  • I don't like that there is no log checking.
  • Delay in alerting especially when server crashes.
AppDynamics is very powerful, easy to use, and understandable even for the non-technical staff. I like the alert feature which helps to get notifications with any issues in the performance of our applications, datasets, or servers. The ability to monitor all kinds of systems in my organization in real time is great. The support has been one of the Best in recent years.
Apeksha Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In our hospital, we deal with multiple numbers of patients; the count even reaches more than 1.2K, and maintaining every data and smooth performance in our hospital Appdynamics plays a crucial role in it. Appdynamics provides real-time entry into CMS and other operational performance software, allowing us to identify or address the issues that can impact the patient or administration. We can monitor everything from the beginning, like the flow of patients in the hospital by registration, billings, or diagnostics. It has been an all-way solution to our complex hospital operation.
  • Issue finder Proactive.
  • Resource Optimization.
  • Income and Transaction Monitoring.
  • Integration with Other hospital System.
  • User Interface.
  • Cost
If a colleague asks me about Appdynamics, I would recommend him to use this tool for his business. But there are a few things that need to be kept in concern. Appdynamics is a vast Central management system that can track every data, transaction, and operation material and integrates itself with the different software and tools to record every possible analysis. It reduces every person's burden and gives all the information in one place, but if the business is not so vast or so many multiple channels don't operate in a company, then it can be spared, and some other options can considered. Appdynamics is the best tool for heavy transactional business, and it can help those businesses to grow overall.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mainly it's used for application monitoring, as all APM tools. The scope in our case to track performance issues, whenever our app has any issues or downtimes.Moreover we setup alerts for the downtime prevention. And personally I use it for user experience monitoring by looking on the insights of customer journeys.
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Monitoring
  • Impact Analysis
  • Not enough documentation
  • Cost
  • Could be complex for beginners
It goes without saying that it's not appropriate for low traffic apps. It is certainly not appropriate for beginners or users, who never faced any APM tool before. Also it's not suitable for small start ups, simply because of the costs (afaik) and there are many more cheaper alternatives.
From my experience, high traffic apps/websites will benefit a lot, e.g., e-commerce platforms, financial platforms or travel aggregators. In our particular case - we have quite extensive traffic and this system was just there.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • AppDynamics gives me a complete picture of my applications performance, complete with real-time metrics in depth traces and applications topology maps. I can quickly locate and fix performance bottlenecks in my applications with the help of this information.
  • Application errors are automatically detected and reported along with stack traces, root cause analyses and suggested corrective actions. This increases the dependability of my apps and helps me to swiftly fix application errors. I optimize using AppDynamics granular insights into the performance of my applications. It allows me to pinpoint resources-wasting code, sluggish database queries and needless resources.
  • With real-time metrics, in depth traces and application topology maps, it gives us a complete picture of the performance of their applications, so that we can identify areas for improvement and gain insight into the performance of the applications with the help of this visibility.
  • The scope of my use is quite extensive, to keep an eye on and control the performance of every application in my company, I use AppDynamics. This covers back-end systems like database and applications servers in addition to mobile and web applications.
  • AppDynamics automatically creates comprehensive maps of the topology of applications, which include all of the components and their interrelationships, I can quickly identify potential performance bottlenecks and understand how their applications operate.
  • Strong root cause analysis feature offered by AppDynamics enables to locate performance issues at their sources fast, this saves a great deal of time and effort when debugging performance issues.
  • A large number of other tools, including development monitoring and ITSM tools are integrated, through which we can get a unified view of application performance and optimize the workflow.
  • Pay-as-you-go is one more flexible option that AppDynamics could provide to lower costs for small and medium-sized enterprises.
  • By offering more instructions and documentation, it could make it simple to set up and use.
  • AppDynamics should clarify and condense the documentation to make it better like it could offer more screenshots and code examples.
  • They are highly recommended to enhance customer service by increasing team member's responsiveness to queries.
  • For our company, we can view the performance of its applications infrastructure in real time with AppDynamics. This enables the business to promptly detect and address performance issues before they have an adverse effect on clients, for example, it increases the capacity of web servers if it notices that they are operating at capacity in order to enhance performance.
  • For cloud-native applications, it offers complete APM support, this makes it a good choice for adopting native technologies.
  • It assists in adhering to rules pertaining to performance, to prove compliance with laws like HIPAA and PCI DSS, AppDynamics can be used to provide reports on the performance of applications.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It provide me a detailed insight into my code including which lines of code are taking most time or not responding to execute.
  • When there is a issue with my application, I use it to track down the root cause , it is very helpful when facing issue with complex application with multiple components.
  • It also helps me to optimise my code to identify which methods are taking the most time to execute, this helps in improving code further.
  • It helps in identifying and improving the bottlenecks in the applications, resulting in improved performance of the application, it is very helpful in increasing customer satisfaction , improved employee productivity and revenue too.
  • It shows us that which line of code are taking most of the time to execute or which line is not responding, so that we use this information to optimise code for better performance.
  • It allows us to actively respond quickly to performance issues, like it sends notification or alert when there is decrease in the response time of application.
  • It helps us in identifying the root cause of the issues like which specific query or third party library is causing performance issues, this is very helpful for complex applications with multiple components.
  • We have faced challenges while its setup, as due to its complexity, this needs to be improved as initially we have limited It resources for set up and this can be faced by others too.
  • It collects a lot of data which ultimately some time results in its low performance and also the performance of the App is decreases,
  • The user interface is little challenging , so there should be improvement by providing more step-by-step instructions.
  • For monitoring and managing complex applications, for our financial department it provide a comprehensive view of performance of their trading platform. The trading applications are complex application with multiple components, which include database and messaging queues, this allows them to quickly identify and resolve performance problems before they impact users.
  • Its is well suited for monitoring and managing micro services based applications , like is provide visibility into performance of micro services and interactions between them.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AppDynamics is the best application monitoring solution I have ever tested. Been using for over a year and very impressed with the amount of configurable dashboards and alerting options. We mainly use it for website and SQL monitoring and it has proven very useful in detecting bad code and queries that were slowing down the SQL.
  • Identifying problematic queries on databases
  • Website monitoring
  • Alert generation
  • Difficult to setup
  • Not the best at Event correlation
  • Recurring cost very high
AppDynamics is well suited for website and application monitoring. It was able to identify some code on our websites that needed to be cleaned up and we were able t configure alerts to send to the relevant server owner when a service went down. It does a very good job with real time performance on you apps. When systems are in non production or 100% uptime is not required it is hard to justify the cost and time to configure AppDymanics
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am using AppDynamics for the last 2 years to monitor and manage payment gateway server system for my client. The criticality of the project lead us to get this monitoring suite implemented for monitoring purpose. This software suite (AppDynamics) is the perfect tool for me which I am using for monitoring a tri-platform combination of AWS-Azure & On-premises. This is my 2nd project of such kind, the implementation was quite smooth, after which it was handed over to me and my client for Production.
  • Monitoring of payment gateway application and its dependencies
  • Alerts and automated pre-defined actions
  • Analytics with graphical view w.r.t. alerts timeline
  • Real time updates are slightly delayed if your resource synchronization is high
This is my first experience with CISCO AppDynamics, so my concerns might be based on the "first timer" anxiety, But compared to the other Monitoring platforms that I have worked with in the past, Cisco AppDynamics was good in terms of UI. But AppDynamics lacks customization, especially when I am trying to generate a report, it has very less scope for exporting the logs. Although I can customize it once I have downloaded it, customizing it on the platform level itself, would have been helpful.

Apart from that, I was able to test, bring one server down on production and then test the response of Alerts from AppDynamics, there was a slight lag, which I observed, but still, when monitoring multiple servers and gateways, I believe a few seconds of delay might be negotiable.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have advised and supervised the implementation of Cisco AppDynamics to one of my clients in Hyderabad location in India. My client wanted a strong software suite to gain real-time visibility into the performance of their "Dynamics365" customer support applications used for handling tickets, progress tracking, real-time updates, and other customer interactions.

My client is one of the top 10 Support Service Providers in India. With AppDynamics APM features for monitoring the health and performance of critical application host, such as their customer relationship management(CRM) system, Employee Monitoring System(EMS), and some of their own Private customized applications. AppDynamics sets up performance baselines and thresholds to detect anomalies and excessive resource usage.

Apart from that AppDynamics is configured to send alerts to my clients' IT team when predefined performance thresholds are exceeded, with the help of which their IT team responds promptly to resolve the issue and meanwhile can engage in other critical tasks.
  • Real time application threshold monitoring
  • Real time performance monitoring of important applications
  • Incident reporting and alerting
  • Capacity planning based on reports and analytics
  • Perfect visualization and reporting
  • Costing compared to its alternatives in market
  • Machine learning and AI integration should be added to further ease and automate
  • Set up takes time, specially in hybrid structure
AppDynamics, which I have employed in my last client, keeps their application downtime and threshold in check, my client is one of the Top 10 Support Service Specialist in the market in India. My client now uses AppDynamics to check the performance and supportability along with stability analysis of their internal support Service portal which is hosted on a Hybrid setup.

Performance analytics, Threshold monitoring, Alerting of Incidents and Customization of options to carry out post Incident raised are the features which AppDynamics has chosen for our client. Being in the service sector, downtime is a major risk, so to keep up my clients' commitment of an SLA response of 10 minutes, AppDynamics is a key tool.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AppDynamics is used to monitor more than 150 applications. When problems are detected, alerts are sent to show our agents where they should act. AppDynamics is used in the headquarters of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, and I believe all the company's headquarters have the same monitoring objective with scalable metrics. Data centers are also scanned with this software, obtaining the same satisfactory results as with APPs.
  • Error detection in applications and data centers.
  • Compliance with banking transactions.
  • Management and correction of errors in APP.
  • Completely difficult to use and manage its settings.
The company uses AppDynamics in the headquarters of Canada, Mexico, the United States, Argentina, and many others; this is because it works to monitor all applications and the best of all is that it works in our data center. I like this software, Although it is very difficult to use, at least this happens to me. Of course, I recommend it!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The State of Indiana uses AppDynamics to help support 500+ business critical applications for around 90 partner agencies. AppDynamics places us in a proactive position while supporting these applications for the constituents of Indiana. AppDynamics helps to deliver the best possible support and understanding surrounding these applications and reduces the mean-time-to-resolution when problems arise.
  • Flow mapping the application.
  • Identifying where in the application there is slowness.
  • Identifying problem database queries.
  • SecureApp is critical for identifying security holes in code.
  • High learning curve
  • Not always clear where problems lie
  • Instrumentations are a heavy lift at times.
AppDynamics sweet spots are Java and .Net applications. Some COTS (.net) and Java applications can be difficult to instrument. Getting the applications reporting is most crucial to being monitoring...so time is a factor.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AppDynamics is used throughout the bank, monitoring over 100 different applications from small ( 100 nodes). There are over 100 dashboards used daily and alerting is sent out to the relevant people when a problem is detected. The application owners use AppDynamics on a daily basis to troubleshoot and diagnose when there are problems. From my point of view I am basically an advisory role to help empower the other users, be it with training and troubleshooting as well as talking to the Professional support team to get them to help out when I just do not get around to doing things to to capcity.
  • Out of the box configs for ease of use
  • Automatic flow maps and Transaction Snapshots
  • Ability to have custom metrics
  • Dashboards have limited widgets
  • No ability to deleted metrics if they are created incorrectly
  • Access control not always easy to administer when using SAML and Roles.
The only reason I have given it 9/10 is due to the costing. The tool is expensive and people are cutting budgets all over the place which makes teams reluctant to purchase.

Well suited for Java applications the APM portion works extremely well.

Server visibility works however it does lack in functionality compared to other products in the market.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Public bank is implementing AppD to monitor almost all of their applications, from mobile to data center. with only few weeks of starting to monitor the applications, it has find a bunch of applications errors that would be difficult to be detected by operational team, and some of these errors were impacting the main business of the company. It is really amazed by the power of AppD and how it will help them to deliver the best customer experiences.
  • find errors on applications that would be hard to find for the operational and dev team
  • monitor the business insights of the applications
  • currently, is monitoring the bank transfer
  • AppD has some disavantages for cloud native applications, comparing to some competitors
it is well suited to monitor applications of big companies, and the most impacting point, it can monitor the business insights directly from the applications.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AppDynamics is a great product help to balance business objective and customer needs by generating interactive dashboards. Using AppDynamics we can use the date in bits and pieces and generate graphs as per business requirement. We use AppDynamics to understand the performance of real time integration call which helps us to understand the performance of our system flawlessly. AppDynamics is a fascinating product.
  • AppDynamics help to understand business performance in a graphical structure
  • AppDynamics help with Service and Connect calls performance with external system
  • Using AppDynamics we can improve system performance time to time
  • 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
Been a user of AppDynamics from last three years and as a user I really recommend this to people when it comes to performance testing and load testing. The best part about AppDynamics is the Graph structure and the easy of data pulling from server directly. Using these graphs we can understand and enhance our system in a larger scale.
May 02, 2023

AppDynamics Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We were managing 100s of micro services running on Kubernetes and to make sure our services performance remain up to mark we need implemented AppDynamics. The real-time view of the application architecture and performance metrics. Which help us narrow down to the troubleshooting process starting point.
  • Easy to setup
  • Application Monitoring
  • Predictive capabilities
  • Complicated licensing
  • Setting up alerts is a bit hard
Will recommend AppDynamics If you need a single tool for monitoring and log analytics. It helps is narrowing down the problem in hand to troubleshoot wether its a hardware, database, connectivity or application issue. Recommended for any large organisation which needed to monitor 100s of services in realtime.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
AppDynamics provides crucial insights onto revenue generating systems that allows for proactive monitoring, preventing outages and issues before they arise. Coupled with the rich data from BiQ, AppDynamics is a platform that ads value to the whole organization and provides an ROI in a very short timeframe. Without AppDynamics, monitoring the complexed IT landscapes today would be near impossible.
  • Real time business metrics
  • End to end visibility of customer journeys
  • integrates into hundreds of 3rd party tools
  • brings multiple teams together in war room situations
  • license model needs improvement ie cant ringfence EUM per department
  • SaaS cloud performance
  • Improve on dashboard generation
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.
Silviya (Vasileva) Marcu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Appdynamics is one of the best business observability solutions out there. I have witnessed incredible disgital transformations at my customers with these solution. Not only does it unify teams accross business and IT but it also coveres a wide range of technologies. It has the ability to dicsover issues in production proactively before they lead to a downtime and the fact that companies can pinpoint root cause to the exact line of code makes it an amazing time saver. Over the last 4 years I've seen IT teams troubleshoot within minutes instead of hours and transform their entire organization toward innovation, rather than troubleshooting. The unique logic of the solution that is based on every end users interaction gives deep insights to business teams and connects them to Dev teams.
  • User Journeys
  • Root cause analysis
  • Visibility
  • Automated deployment
It is great for replacing many log analytic tools as well as infrastructure tools, unifying monitoring for more technologies under one.
Nikhil Kumar Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AppDynamics is used as an APM solution in our organization and we practice Appdynamics for our customers. From the business point of view, AppDynamics plays a pivotal role as this provides insights on Business Applications that are critical to the business revenue such as File Transfer Services, Transaction services, etc.
  • Dependency View of Technical component for a business application
  • Transactions visibility
  • Predictive Intillegence
  • Transaction drill down and root cause identification
  • Advance Technologies which leverages multiple framework languages
  • Predictive Intelligence in real
  • Integration with other event sources
  • Network Infrastructure in details
  • SLI and SLO
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
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