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AppDynamics pros and cons

Vendor: AppDynamics

4.1 out of 5

156 reviews
89% willing to recommend

6,348 followers

Pros & Cons summary

AppDynamics enables quick identification and resolution of issues across multiple applications and business processes. It offers comprehensive insights, monitoring capabilities, and enhances operational efficiency, ensuring continuous monitoring and reducing costs. Users appreciate its stability and reliability but note the need for better integration with applications like Oracle Enterprise Server and improvements in end-user monitoring templates. The platform faces performance impacts with database agents and has scalability issues beyond 3,000 agents.

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PROS

AppDynamics helps in quickly finding solutions for specific business transactions and has comprehensive monitoring capabilities that go beyond just servers to business processes.

It provides essential features like the Business Journey dashboard, end-user monitoring, and transaction tracing that are geared towards enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.

Strong support for multiple technologies and third-party applications like NoSQL, Kafka, and Couchbase, which facilitates extensive performance and health monitoring of various systems.

AppDynamics is praised for its ease of implementation, good documentation, and stability, making it a reliable choice for future long-term use and scaling in large organizations.

Offers valuable insights into application code, database insights, and transaction performance, proving highly useful in capacity planning and overall enterprise monitoring across different platforms.

CONS

AppDynamics needs more integration with application suites like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy.

There could be improvement in the performance monitoring and impacts when deploying database agents on the database server.

AppDynamics lacks cloud technology integration and may not fit emerging enterprises moving to the cloud.

The end-user monitoring complexities and lack of template designs make it challenging to understand and implement changes quickly.

AppDynamics requires extra setup and extensions for various hardware, making installation and configuration more challenging.

AppDynamics Pros review quotes

Senior Solutions Architect at CloudOps

Jan 13, 2019

In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work.

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reviewer1555236

IT Operations Executive at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 19, 2021

The SAP monitoring element is very helpful.

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Operations Project Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Dec 24, 2016

It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly.

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Application Support Lead at ASRC Federal Data Solutions

Jan 2, 2017

The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application

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Enterprise Platform Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 7, 2016

The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked.

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Sr. App Analytics DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 14, 2016

That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace.

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Director for the End-User Performance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 13, 2023

Technical support is helpful.

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Systems Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 1, 2016

The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve.

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Responsable Commercial at Zen Networks

Jun 22, 2022

The initial setup is simple.

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reviewer1112805

Head Of Information Technology at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees

Apr 17, 2021

The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks.

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Senior Solutions Architect at CloudOps

Jan 13, 2019

I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need.

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IT Operations Executive at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 19, 2021

The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound.

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Application Support Lead at ASRC Federal Data Solutions

Jan 2, 2017

I think I would like to see a better way to deploy and upgrade the machine agents that we use. Currently, we have to use SCCM, and that might just be our environment with the customer.

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Enterprise Platform Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 7, 2016

I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area.

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Director for the End-User Performance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 13, 2023

If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful.

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Systems Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 1, 2016

We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world.

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Responsable Commercial at Zen Networks

Jun 22, 2022

If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool.

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Head Of Information Technology at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees

Apr 17, 2021

The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey.

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Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

May 19, 2021

There are too many installers available for this solution.

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Sr. Enterprise Network Planner at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 9, 2016

It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end.

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