AppDynamics Reviews

Application Flow Map, Operational Dashboards, Transaction Scorecards, Exception details (stacktrace, sql queries, etc), it provides all the information required to engage the issue, Metric browser, Information Points, Correlation Analysis.

We can evaluate the performance of an application by doing a few clicks and find bottlenecks very easily. Automatic alerts on resource exhaustion for DB connection pools, HTTP app thread pools, discovering unexpected performance difference between identical applications instances. We have become more proactive rather than reactive.

Charting is cumbersome; inability to do decimal fraction arithmetic in expressions (for alerts), so everything has to be done in % rather than as natural fractions. Can’t get response time by host for an given host group without laboriously setting it up in the chart widget.

For seven months. We started with the controller hosted at AppDynamics servers, then we put the controller in an in-house virtualized environment and finally in a physical server in-house.

I didn't encounter any issues with deployment, stability or scalability.

Customer Service:

It’s good, they have really fast response times.

Technical Support:

Excellent in terms of commitment, response times and technical knowledge.

We haven't used any other solutions in past, this is the first APM solution we use for our Java based applications.

It was pretty much straightforward, we didn’t face any big problems when setting up AppDynamics.

We implemented through an In-house team.

Yes, I evaluated OPNET as well.

Scale the product properly within your system’s architecture to get better results in order to analyze your app's performance properly.

We've used AppDynamics to easily identify application slowdowns and rectify them on several occasions. It has also helped in our QA environment to analyze new releases and ensure they are not harming performance.

Stack trace of PHP calls through the application and timings of those calls.

One to three years.

None.

Just that we've run out of agents in our license :P :(

Customer Service: 10 out of 10, all our questions and issues have been addressed and resolved quickly.Technical Support: 10 out of 10, as above, all questions and issues have been addressed and resolved quickly.

No, AppDynamics was our first.

Very simple- install controller, install agents, configure agents, done.

In-house

Quicker turnaround on finding/resolving issues or improving performance, which leads to improved client experiences.

We investigated several other APM solutions prior to going with AppDynamics, specifically New Relic and dynaTrace.

Read up on documentation, and play around with the config settings, there is a vast wealth of information that can be retrieved if you know how to look for it.

Our main use of this AppDynamics is to monitor customer applications, such as web applications. For example, to monitor the availability of online stores, and to figure out whether we have any problems.

AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics.

The end-user experience is not really good because we can't catch all of the transactions. We only can catch the full stack of flow transactions, but I think that this is caused by the technology they use. If they will catch every transaction, it will cause a very big load on the performance of applications. The monitoring of all transactions needs improvement.

I have been using AppDynamics for approximately eight years.

The solution has been stable in my experience. 

The solution is scalable. AppDynamics has been flexible enough for what I use it for.

I have not contacted support. We have only used our local distributors, and they have been good.

I have used an older version of Dynatrace previously.

The solution is easy to deploy if you know what you are doing. It was simple for me.

The price of AppDynamics could be reduced in my region.

My advice to others that want to implement this solution is to have a test environment, and then go to production. Sometimes it requires tuning of the software and restarting services a couple of times,  it's better to make all of these changes on a test environment, and then to move to production.

I have been using AppDynamics for approximately eight out of ten.

We use this solution for application monitoring and the alerting mechanism.

We have a complex platform infrastructure, deployed in multiple JBoss Fuse, ActiveMQ, and Data Grid servers.

It improves our organization by providing the right alerts, and there are so many parameters to choose from that it allows us to set the right level of alerting mechanism for approximately one hundred and twenty services.

The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server. It is amazing.

It helps to monitor our complex infrastructure very effectively.

Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times.

One year.

AppDynamics shows different tiers of our application from front-end to back-end, so it's really easy for us to toggle down to each tier and find the bottleneck.

Last year, I worked on the load and performance test for our service. AppDynamics allows us to know how long requests to our service take. From that, we can know whether there is a database delay or some other reason. It really helps us to find underlying problems, some of which are not so evident and are waiting like a bomb inside our system. This is one of the benefits AppDynamics brings us.

Actually, it still takes some time when I want to find some requests in time ranges. It's a little slow. I think maybe they could improve there.

I like to check real time requests and whenever I select a time range in APM, I feel it responds quickly. And the data looks very correct. So I think it has good stability.

APM checks a lot of our loads and we have lots of similar environments. Our system requires a lot of scalability.

I have not used technical support.

I feel AppDynamics is really unique, because I really want to check our loss. We have lots of similar products to choose from like Elastic, Kibana, and Datadog but for the server stuff, we only have AppDynamics. So I feel it does a really good job and is really unique in the industry, and I don't think other products have all the features that AppDynamics can provide.

I was not involved in the initial set up. I just use APM.

No, we didn’t have any other vendors for server monitoring solutions; only AppDynamics.

My advice is just to play with it. It has so many dashboards and it's very intuitive and easy to understand. The visualization is also very good.

Regarding choosing a vendor, I think the most important thing is that they keep updating and improving the product. They also need to have great customer support. We want to have very precise data regarding real time data on the server.

I like that I can see the stack trace when problems are detected. This points me to the area in the code that needs to be fixed.

We have AppDynamics set up to email us alerts when certain things happen. We can start working on a problem before our customer notices.

I did not find it easy to understand at first. It just looked like this sea of information, and I couldn’t see the logical breakdown of things, and the names for things didn’t immediately help me figure out what they were really for – what it could help me see and do.

About a year.

None that I am aware of.

I don’t know what we spent on it, but whatever we spent, it was a good investment. This tool is helping us get our application free of bugs and performance issues.

Learn as much as you can about it. It can do more than you think. Make use of the enthusiasm of the AppDynamics employees to help you learn.

The product is good for the enterprise SAS application performance monitoring. It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on.

The solution is scalable.

The solution is complex. 

We'd like the solution to offer more AI features.

The initial setup could be easier.

They need to improve the infrastructure and make it less complex. There are too many modules and components. 

It would be helpful if the product had local support in our area. 

We acquired the solution last year after we did a bit of research on its capabilities. We've been using it for a few months so far.

The scalability is good. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. It's a good product for large-scale projects and enterprises. 

We don't have AppDynamics local support in my area. We only have a partner in my region, which is not really AppDynamics. In terms of the whole implementation, the experience, I wonder if the experience is good enough. I suspect a direct connection with AppDynamics might be better. If they had a product team in my region we might be better off.

The initial setup is not easy or straightforward. It's quite complex. You really need to have local support.

We are just a customer and an end-user. We don't have a business relationship with AppDynamics. 

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've been happy with its capabilities over the time we have used it. 

I would recommend the solution, even with all of the complexity that it brings. However, I would advise new users or companies considering the product to make sure they have local support.

I am using AppDynamics in order to monitor Java applications.

It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions. For example, in the case of slowness or a job being stuck at some stage.

The most valuable features are Data Flow and memory monitoring.

As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level.

It should generate a report similar to what Oracle provides.

I have been using AppDynamics for two years.

On-premises