Top 3 Tech Leaders in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability 2023
Discover the leading technology solutions in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with PeerSpot's annual Tech Leaders awards. The awards are based on comprehensive user reviews and other criteria as outlined below, offering you a window into the top products in this category and a way to explore and compare outstanding products. Join us as we unveil the Peerspot 2023 Tech Leader award winners, helping you stay informed about the best-in-class solutions available.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability provide insights into the performance, availability, and user experience of software applications and IT infrastructures. They enable real-time monitoring, data collection, and analysis of various metrics, including application performance, infrastructure health, and user interactions. This information helps organizations proactively identify and resolve issues, optimize application performance, and enhance the end-user experience. They can play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and efficiency of digital services, ultimately contributing to better business outcomes and customer satisfaction.
The Award Winners
Datadog
Datadog provides real-time visibility into application code, server performance, and user experiences, allowing for rapid issue detection and resolution. It also supports automatic tracing for popular programming languages, simplifying the monitoring of complex, microservices-based applications. Additionally, it offers machine learning-based anomaly detection to proactively identify performance issues before they impact end-users. With its user-friendly interface and extensive integrations, Datadog enables efficient collaboration between development and operations teams, ensuring the reliability and scalability of modern applications.
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system. That includes the GKE cluster, nodes, and pods. It's helped with our cloud-run instances, databases, and data storage." - LuWang, DevOps Engineer, Screencastify
"Datadog has allowed us to create comprehensive dashboards and proactively send out alerts… The operative word here is visibility, and we've seen a huge improvement in that." - reviewer2003355, DevOps Engineer, Printing Company
"It has drastically reduced the amount of time we spend on debugging issues and tracking down the root causes of incidents. What might have taken days or hours with separate vendors in the past (or even single vendors with terrible UI) is now quick and easy." - Ian Schell, Senior Site Reliability Architect, Tech Vendor
Dynatrace
Dynatrace offers AI-driven capabilities, providing automatic root cause analysis and quick issue resolution. It also uses AI to predict performance problems before they occur to help teams take preventive action. Its unique approach to observability combines distributed tracing, code-level visibility, and precise user session analysis, making it effective in performance optimization of complex, cloud-native applications. Dynatrace also provides automatic discovery and monitoring of containerized environments, simplifying the management of dynamic, microservices-based architectures.
"The product helps us identify issues in the application and get to the root cause immediately. We can understand why a client experiences slowness, whether it is due to DB or some issue at the front end… We can also use the tool to understand the impact of the technical issue and the loss to business." - Kapil K, Senior Manager, Technical Architect Performance, Duck Creek Technologies
"We monitor critical internal applications including some public-facing applications. Internal transactions are being tracked and we get immediate feedback from the solution's monitoring which makes a big difference to us." - Prashanth Shetty, Project Manager, QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
"I like its ability to dive deep down into each service and application at the code level. You can see Dynatrace interacting with other applications, so it gives you a good understanding of where things go wrong. I think it is just that Dynatrace gives you great observability on your platform." - reviewer770460, Monitoring Observability Specialist, Financial Services Firm
AppDynamics
AppDynamics provides real-time visibility into application performance, end-user experience, and business impact. It offers AI-powered root cause analysis, helping identify the precise source of performance problems and saving time. One of the features that sets AppDynamics apart is its ability to automatically discover and map application dependencies, making it easier to identify and resolve issues. Additionally, it offers Business Transaction Correlation, which links application performance to business outcomes, enabling users to prioritize and address issues that impact revenue and customer satisfaction.
"It gives us complete visibility into the performance of our applications, allowing us to proactively detect and fix issues before they impact users. This has significantly reduced downtime and improved user experience." - Venus Yaker Dalton, Information Technology Specialist, 3M
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve. In essence, it helps us address problems at an early stage. Moreover, it is especially useful in production servers where real users encounter numerous issues." - Chirag Dash, Software Engineer, Apmosys Technology Pvt. Ltd.
"We're able to customize the dashboard to show us details of what we want to see in our transactions. So, it shows us the transactions that are coming in, outgoing transactions, and field transactions. So, we had the freedom to customize, and I think that was priceless." - Amos Babatunde Jayesimi, Officer IT Data Processing, Stanbic Bank Ghana, Ltd.
How Award Winners Are Determined
PeerSpot Tech Leaders Awards recognize the top products in a category based on real users' in-depth reviews, which are verified for authenticity. The ranking criteria include the number of reviews, views, and comparisons of each product, as well as the overall reviewer rating and the word count per review. The winning products are acknowledged as top performers within their category.
Summary
The Tech Leaders award is PeerSpot's most prestigious. Recipients have earned the esteem of industry professionals who use and review the products and compare them with their competition. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions provide insights into the health and performance of complex systems, and the award winners, Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics have merited peer recognition as Tech Leaders in this category.
