AppDynamics is a Game Changer in Application Monitoring and Management
AppDynamics helps us conduct root cause analysis when performance problems arise by combining data from several application infrastructure …
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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)9.393%
- Threshold alerts (58)9.090%
- Predictive capabilities (57)7.878%
- Database monitoring (58)7.777%
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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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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.
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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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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry |
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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.
Reviewers rate Application monitoring highest, with a score of 9.3.
The most common users of AppDynamics are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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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.
November 27, 2023
Excellent performance and monitoring tool.
Score 7 out of 10
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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.
November 27, 2023
Amazing tool for long-term application performance monitoring.
Score 7 out of 10
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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.
September 25, 2023
AppDynamics, Cisco's AIO Hybrid application monitoring tool!
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.
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
September 14, 2023
AppDynamics delivers application performance monitoring excellence
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.
September 22, 2021
AppDynamics for enterprise-level complex platform monitoring
We have an internet banking platform with a quite complex architecture that involves different dev and ops teams. Our performance and stability requirements are high. We needed to modernize the way we monitor the platform and improve our support SLA. AppDynamics gave us a brand new centralized vision of our environment. We now monitor the platform, detect slowness, and get more accurate information quicker. AppDynamics is used by all of our IT teams.
- Complete visual application monitoring--slowness, bottlenecks, crashes...
- Provides a lot of dashboards and insights on platform behavior
- Non-intrusive monitoring on existing deployments
- Gives a lot of very accurate data
- Very expensive licensing policy
- Quite confusing and complex interface (with a quite tough learning curve)
We use AppDynamics for app performance monitoring of our suite of applications. We also monitor critical business transactions. It is installed on all of our server devices. We can proactively monitor the apps to make sure we are meeting our key performance SLAs.
- Application monitoring
- Business transaction monitoring.
- It was a little hard to deploy at first for some of our older technologies that are in use.
November 05, 2019
A perfect tool that allows me to manage and monitor the performance of all the applications
The IT operations department uses AppDynamic. It provides synthetic monitoring of our applications, allows us to see in real time how the various applications installed by server communicate with others. This helps us to have control of the connections and allows us to have extract metrics of the amount of possible errors between connections. It is very valuable to monitor web services and their connections.
- It is not intrusive and agents do not consume too much resources
- It has an intuitive interface
- Excellent functionality to customize report
- The interface is somewhat complex at first, it is difficult to find important and necessary information.
- There is a bit of learning curve to get the hang of the tools' features as it has a lot of them.
- Perhaps the pricing is a bit on the high side when you have several hundreds of servers to monitor.
April 05, 2019
Easy adaptation, easy monitoring at one glance
Our application is very data intensive and straight out of the box, AppDynamics was able to pinpoint some pain points we hadn't noticed. Certain queries required optimization as they were being called several million times, essentially doing a lot of I/O on the DB server.
- A lot of information about your system is provided, performance wise.
- Clean and intuitive interface and allows users to get information with just one glance.
- The learning curve is relatively steep due to all the advanced features which my business requires
April 06, 2018
Great at finding bottlenecks and easy to use
We used AppDynamics originally for application performance monitoring of our custom websites and applications. We didn't know where the slow-downs were happening. The up/down way of monitoring wasn't enough for us, so the slowness, machine learning and baselining was really nice. Seeing successful, yet slow transactions really helped us find problems. It was nice to see the "inside-out" view of our apps.
This was an added service, so though it wasn't fully deployed, we used it across various departments for a variety of applications.
This was an added service, so though it wasn't fully deployed, we used it across various departments for a variety of applications.
Seeing user experience was also very helpful. We purchased the end-user monitoring portion of it to capture "outside-in" and marry that with the previous view from the APM portion.
- Integration with multiple frameworks (Java, NodeJS, .NET, etc). Good database monitoring tool as well as end-user and synthetic user monitoring tool.
- Works great for on-premise and is always maturing and keeping up with industry trends.
- It's been in Garter's Leader Quad for years now.
- Very intuitive web UI and IT, Mgmt, QA, Devs, and Ops could easily use it.
- SaaS is developed prior, then on-premise. We have reasons to need all of it on premise. They stay in step pretty well, and will fulfill promises to deliver. Sometimes, a new functionality is available only in SaaS until it's available for on-premise (2-8 months later depending)
- It's not a real-time monitoring solution. There's a 90 second delay. That wasn't a problem for me, but I had a few that had issue with that.
AppDynamics is used to provide application performance monitoring for our ecommerce booking website and external APIs, providing a valuable tool to ensure the application is working as it should, particularly in terms of performance - especially response time, etc. Alerting from AppDynamics is used to ensure any production issues are dealt with swiftly and it is also used for error monitoring and analysis.
- 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.
- 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.