AppDynamics

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is great for replacing many log analytic tools as well as infrastructure tools, unifying monitoring for more technologies under one.

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