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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.
With AppDynamics end to end visibility is possible.
Grow your business with the help of AppDynamics.
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Excellent performance and monitoring tool.
Amazing tool for long-term application performance monitoring.
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Yes I love AppDynamics as it's the best Application, Network and Server Performance Monitoring Platform for my Organization.
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Nice APM for a mid-big size company with a high traffic
AppDynamics - The best APM tool for Monitoring and managing complex application environment.
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- It provide me a detailed insight into my code including which lines of code are taking most time or not responding to execute.
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AppDynamics fantastic tool for Application Perfomance monitoring and alerting
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Popular Features
- Application monitoring (59)9.393%
- Threshold alerts (58)9.090%
- Predictive capabilities (57)7.878%
- Database monitoring (58)7.777%
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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
- 9.3Application monitoring(59) Ratings
Application monitoring involves tracking response times and resource usage for applications, including highly-distributed applications
- 7.7Database monitoring(58) Ratings
Database monitoring means looking for database bottlenecks liable to slow response times
- 9Threshold alerts(58) Ratings
Alerts indicating when critical thresholds have been reached
- 7.8Predictive capabilities(57) Ratings
Data mining of log and other performance data to understand predictors of slowdowns or outages
- 8.8Application performance management console(57) Ratings
The management console is used to manage monitoring agents and et thresholds, etc.
- 7.9Collaboration tools(47) Ratings
Collaboration tools enable DevOps staff to collaborate by adding notes/comments and also integrating with external collaboration tools like ticketing systems
- 8.4Server availability and performance monitoring(30) Ratings
Ability to monitor server availability
- 8.7Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting(29) Ratings
Ability to assess server usage and forecast future needs
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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 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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(1-25 of 28)- 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.
With AppDynamics end to end visibility is possible.
- 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.
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.
Grow your business with the help of AppDynamics.
- 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.
Amazing tool for long-term application performance monitoring.
- 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.
AppDynamics - The best APM tool for Monitoring and managing complex application environment.
- 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.
My experience with AppDynamics
- 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.
- Identifying problematic queries on databases
- Website monitoring
- Alert generation
- Difficult to setup
- Not the best at Event correlation
- Recurring cost very high
AppDynamics, Cisco's AIO Hybrid application monitoring tool!
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
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.
AppDynamics Review
- Easy to setup
- Application Monitoring
- Predictive capabilities
- Complicated licensing
- Setting up alerts is a bit hard
- Real-time application/database performance can be monitored
- Amazing visualization graphs in the user interface
- Alerts can be set on various parameters for monitoring
- Less subscription cost
- Disk usage of servers can be implemented
- Customization can be implemented on dashboard according to user need
- execution time and percentage for process stack
- clear monitoring of memory usage and details to help troubleshoot
- application flow maps give a good picture of the inter-dependencies in the app
- Synergy with Logic Monitor which we use for our infrastructure monitoring.
- a fair amount of continual configuration to prevent false positives
- There are a lot of technologies that App Dynamics covers and documentation is a bit of a weak spot in finding clear documentation, configuring dashboards, etc.
Better business transaction monitoring with ease
- The automatic topology discovery feature helps you to drill down every integration point to other systems.
- Advanced transaction monitoring for web and mobile applications
- Root cause analysis should be presented with proposed actions and recovery.
- Needs huge storage if you keep the transaction history and most of the analytics features rely on that.
AppDynamics is an excellent tool for Application monitoring
- Ease of installing the agents is unbelievable. Supports almost all the servers and technologies.
- The UI is very clean and very intuitive. Setting up widgets, Alarms, notifications are very powerful features
- The ability to drill down to a particular layer in technology is useful to find out the performance bottlenecks efficiently.
- It's an excellent tool to start with. There are some open source monitoring tools catching up fast and the cost of AppDynamics can be a little burden.
- Integrating infrastructure monitoring along with application monitoring can be a differentiator.
- Dashboards.
- Easy to use.
- Quick to setup.
- Ready to use.
- Price.
- Licensing options.
- Pay per month in AWS.
AppDynamics is a great product
- Gives you end to end visibility into your applications.
- Lets you monitor all your databases.
- Lets you monitor your infrastructure.
- Need more tips and tricks.
- Need more tutorials on how to use the product.
- Need more insight as to how that product can be used.
A tool that not only gives you code level visibility, but also monitors your application infrastructure.
Our[s] is a management consulting firm so we work on a lot of tech platforms like dot net, node, php etc. Wherein we manage customer's microsites, Write code, maintain all these applications through AppDynamics.
- Provide details to solve performance problems.
- Has an analytics driven approach.
- Monitors and reports on performance at all levels.
- Great for monitoring web apps.
- Great analytical dashboards.
- It's has two versions - the actual and lite. The lite version only shows data from last 2 hours. It is certainly not enough to monitor.
- Some data gets lost on all functions.
- Sometimes JVM errors and application error[s] show up - not sure why.
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.
AppDynamics is great for application Monitoring!
- Zoom feature is awesome for looking at higher level or detailed level.
- App monitoring.
- The UI is easy to use and intuitive.
- Customized Reporting.
- It is a very complex product and requires training.
- User admin can be better.
- Mobile app is poorly designed.
- It will cost you and arm and a leg (maybe two).
AppDynamics Review
- What sold me was the agent-less monitoring of the databases so we could actually see in real time what days/times we needed to apply additional CPU resources.
- Provides complete visibility on the application's performance (Application Monitoring), database performance, and infrastructure performance ranging from 1 day - 1 year.
- The level of insights it provided helped us address the production issues quickly and we started using it for all new development and deployment. It helped us move from being reactive to proactive in identifying and managing issues/ bottlenecks
- Price of the AppDynamics is high. But it has many valuable features. This makes it difficult for small businesses to enter.
- Functionality is overkill for most small to midsize businesses (SMBs). When stacking up product units, it can get pricey for enterprises as well.
- With fine granular configs and customizations available, it will also mean that it is very complicated and requires a certain amount of knowledge before we can make full use of all features in the product. Much careful thought and planning is required to get the most of it. Set-up will be longer. One recommendation is for features to be better documented.
AppDynamics lets you see!!!
- Working to set the map of our cloud apps lets us see all the environment clearly.
- We set alarms that warn us when something is not working fine.
- Maybe they could provide a better training program.
- Better user role definition.
A perfect tool that allows me to manage and monitor the performance of all the applications
- 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.
- Ease of setup, with pretty extensive documentation.
- AppDynamics has several components to monitor applications, physical server resources, database servers, and networking. The fact that all of them are independent of each other makes it convenient to start/stop these services as needed in production.
- The support team is very knowledgeable in the product and provides the necessary help from the initial setup to the final setup in production.
- Generally speaking, AppDynamics serves the purpose we initially intended this product to do. However, there are certain limitations to how our application works. AppDynamics was likely built for monitoring applications that handle hundreds and thousands of transactions such as an ecommerce application, and so is limited in how a baseline can be set up as it pertains to our product. Ours does not deal with so many transactions in a given amount of time but every transaction has sub-transactions it performs. So, while using a SaaS model to setup business transactions, we are limited to what the cloud server is configured to and is not customizable.
AppDynamics - A deep dive into your application data
- Giving a network map of our application that shows where slowdowns are occurring and where network traffic is running into a bottleneck.
- We are able to gather node-specific information that shows the number of sessions a web server or even Redis session statistics.
- We use AppDynamics to give a holistic view of our application allowing us to quickly narrow in on problems.
- The user interface can be a bit challenging to use and configure for specific things.
- Some of the performance graphs, such as CPU usage across many servers, can take some considerable time to set up whereas the same graphs can be compiled very quickly with another monitoring tool like Splunk.
- I wish there was a way to show more performance graphs of trend lines, where you could mouse over one graph and show stats across all graphs in one dashboard.
Great at finding bottlenecks and easy to use
This was an added service, so though it wasn't fully deployed, we used it across various departments for a variety of applications.
- 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 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.
The Rolls Royce of APM
- The user interface is brilliant, especially the map showing the flow of network traffic between your various pieces of hardware being monitored.
- Easy to identify slow running queries.
- Quick and easy to set up.
- It is quite pricey, though does provide a lot more detail than other APM providers.
- Traversing the call stack through multiple application layers can get confusing at times.