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Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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We like the ability to drill down into the method level to identify where the real issue is, as other tools just show the slowness at the transaction level only.

What is most valuable?

We like the ability to drill down into the method level to identify where the real issue is, as other tools just show the slowness at the transaction level only. We also like its database monitoring which gives almost everything to us for identifying any performance issues with the database. It is certainly not a legacy monitoring tool to monitor the database, it should be looked at as a database performance monitoring tool.

How has it helped my organization?

We are still in the POC phase and are trying to implement it by adopting some of the best practices. I am sure if and when it is fully implemented, developers will love this tool as their life will be easier.

What needs improvement?

AppDynamics should add more features to identify in case if there is some thread waiting for something. We are keenly looking for this feature. We would like to see the traffic on F5 load balancers in the flow map which make the entry points in an application, Currently only custom exit points can be created for non-instrumented nodes. Also if AppDynamics are trying to be only a monitoring tool, then they really need to add lot of stuff to the infrastructure monitoring and heavy correlation features are required to identify the real issues within and outside of business app. We can't blame the code for slowness of the overall application every time, as the network and servers are all equally important. Other tools like HP BSM provide great features to map everything in a service map.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

This tool is very easy to implement and setup when compared to other tools. Agent installations and instrumentation are also extremely easy.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's very easy to scale when compared to other tools.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We have compared this product to Bluestripe APM. We like its mapping of the business application mapping which shows how each tier of the application talk to another ones and also to the backend-like database, MQ, external interfaces, etc. It’s a very easy to understand tool which could be easily understood by a newbie also.

What other advice do I have?

One piece of advice I would like to give others is that you need to first identify how you want to map your business application in the AppDynamics flow map. If there are multiple pieces in an application talking to each other, then best practice is to put everything together in one business application to see how those pieces talk to each other. Secondly, you need to identify the most important business transactions that you would like to monitor. Just include those and exclude everything else, as this way you can reduce the traffic and the amount of noise. Troubleshooting is easy when only key transactions are being monitored and not everything.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partners

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    it_user324879Technical Architect-Product Development with 5,001-10,000 employees
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    Adding to the "Room for Improvement" section here. I think Appdynamics is primarily Application Instruementation and Enginnering tool with some basic features evolving which supports some infrastructure monitoring. Also, as the reviwer mentioned very difificult to monitor delayed threads and async calls.

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    Application performance and System monitoring at Agos
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    Top 5
    A highly scalable solution that can be used to monitor the application performance
    Pros and Cons
    • "The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
    • "AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."

    What is our primary use case?

    We use AppDynamics mainly to monitor the application performance.

    What is most valuable?

    The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications.

    What needs improvement?

    AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    We have been using AppDynamics for approximately three years.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    AppDynamics is a stable product. We rarely had any issues with the solution.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    I rate AppDynamics ten out of ten for scalability.

    How are customer service and support?

    Getting a response from the solution's technical support team is harder and takes longer. Since the solution has a structural support model, it requires some layers of escalation to get the correct response.

    How would you rate customer service and support?

    Neutral

    How was the initial setup?

    The solution's initial setup is easy. However, it is harder than Checkmk because it needs to install the agent.

    What about the implementation team?

    The solution's initial deployment takes about three to four months. However, it's a work in progress because new applications are added every time.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    AppDynamics is an expensive solution.

    What other advice do I have?

    AppDynamics is deployed on-cloud in our organization.

    Overall, I rate AppDynamics a nine out of ten.

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      Sr. Production Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
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      Monitors CPU health and application health status
      Pros and Cons
      • "We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
      • "The resolution time takes longer than expected."

      What is our primary use case?

      We use AppDynamics for monitoring purposes to check up on CPU health and application health status.

      AppDynamics is used to monitor the health of our applications. If any application is down and linked up with AppDynamics, we can see it on the AppDynamics console. We can identify when a specific process went slow and the exact issue. Additionally, if there is any high CPU utilization or other issues, we can figure it out using AppDynamics.

      It is very helpful as we can also make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime. We can even customize the alerts to be sent to a particular email domain for automatic notification, so there's no need to monitor it 24/7.

      What is most valuable?

      The monitoring feature is very useful. If you have multiple applications and systems with high CPU utilization or other issues, you don't need to monitor them individually. With AppDynamics, you can get all the information from the dashboard. It's very convenient.

      What needs improvement?

      There is room for improvement in the customer support team because finding a solution consumes a lot of time. When there's any issue, we need to reach out to the AppDynamic support team to get some idea of what the issue is. If anything is out of scope, we need to escalate the availability. It can be more dynamic because we need to go to the support portal to raise an incident, and it's time-consuming. Also, the resolution time takes longer than expected. If there were live support from AppDynamic's point of view, it would be really helpful.

      For how long have I used the solution?

      I have been using this solution for the last three months. I am using the latest version.

      What do I think about the stability of the solution?

      AppDynamics is a stable solution.

      What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

      It is a scalable solution. We have some support guys, admin guys, and other people using AppDynamics. In our organization, we have around 15 members using it.

      How was the initial setup?

      The initial setup is not that complex. It is easy. I would give it a four out of ten. The deployment took two to three days.

      What about the implementation team?

      An in-house team did the deployment.

      Which other solutions did I evaluate?

      I used some other tools, like Sterling Integrator, for EDI solutions.

      What other advice do I have?

      Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

      Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

      Private Cloud
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        Sr. App Analytics DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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        The flow map and technical support are valuable.
        Pros and Cons
        • "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."

          How has it helped my organization?

          It helps us find the root cause quicker, so it's helped us with MTTI and MTTR. In fact, just last week, we had an issue. They used our other tools to try to find the solution, and they said, “This is the root cause.” Then, we were analyzing it in AppDynamics, and we said, “You know what? We're seeing something different.” They doubled back and realized that what AppDynamics had shown was actually the root cause, not what they were initially thinking was the root cause.

          What is most valuable?

          AppDynamics is very easy to use, and easy to deploy in our environment, especially because we're a central organization that helps other application teams with their APM solution. For me, that flow map makes all the difference for the customers. You show them the flow map. You tell them, “OK, green is good, yellow is a problem, and red is warning. Where do you see your problem?” They're like, “Right there.” That makes life a lot easier, compared to all the other tools that I've used in the past.

          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. Those are two of the things that makes AppDynamics different.

          What needs improvement?

          Get me Blitz; basically, their next generation architecture, which they're actually running in their SaaS environment. Instead of having just one, big controller with a gigantic database behind it, they're moving towards a more distributed storage, which would be horizontally scalable. We've been looking for it for almost a year now.

          I would be willing to pilot it in my non-prod environment, just to see how it works, because ultimately that's going to give us the same visibility that we're getting right now, but we can just keep scaling; just keep pumping more and more applications. As the controller gets bogged down, we just add more hardware. That's going to be key for us.

          What do I think about the stability of the solution?

          We've had some growing pains with AppDynamics but overall, the products been very stable. Their support’s awesome, so whenever we have issues, we open a support ticket. They jump on and they come up with a solution to help us. Even with the few minor hiccups that we've had, I would say overall, it’s very stable.

          What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

          Scalability is excellent. In the last year, we've gone from a few hundred metrics to close to 10,000 metrics per minute injestion.

          How are customer service and technical support?

          I haven't seen any other vendor even come close to AppDynamics’ support. I've been raving about them. I have told the guy that runs their support organization, how great he's doing the job.

          The thing that sets them apart is, if I have an issue, I open a ticket with them. Within 2-4 hours, I have the solution. I don't get an email saying, "We're looking into it.", and then not hear from them for two days or for a week, which I've had with other APM providers.

          With AppDynamics, they're on it. If they can't find a solution, they're going to get on a GoToMeeting to duplicate the problem. They'll get their engineers involved. We've had multiple times when they got the developers involved on the GoToMeeting because the support guy couldn't get beyond that. He just got the developer for that product involved to come up with a solution.

          Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

          It’s a funny story. The PoV was done before I joined the company. I was a Dynatrace user, Intrascope, New Relic. I've done pretty much all the major APM providers in my career. At my previous job, I was using Dynatrace and my entire interview was, “Why are you guys using AppDynamics instead of Dynatrace?” I'd done a PoC of AppDynamics about five years ago. At that time, the product was in its infancy and it didn't really provide what we were looking for. There were a lot of issues; they were at version 2 or something like that at that time. When I joined the company, it had already been decided that AppDynamics was what we were going to use, so I didn't have a say in that.

          Very quickly, my impression of the product changed. As I used it, I was like, "Whoa!" Between version whatever that I PoV'd with in the past compared to version 4, there was a night-and-day difference. Very quickly, I became a proponent of AppDynamics.

          How was the initial setup?

          Our setup was quite complex. Our leadership decided that we were going to use one controller for everything, and we've got thousands of applications. Now, they're reaching the point where they’re realizing that it's not feasible to have just one controller for our huge infrastructure.

          The initial setup was fairly straightforward, until we started pushing some really heavy applications, and then we started seeing problems. We got involved with some of their tuning experts. They're basically getting every ounce of power out of the machine that they can. It's been an excellent journey.

          Which other solutions did I evaluate?

          Dynatrace was on the short list. My predecessor did a comparison between the two tools. One of the issues that we saw with Dynatrace was scalability. Dynatrace itself pushes so much information. It's capturing every single transaction, compared to AppDynamics, which captures a subset of the transactions. For Dynatrace, you just need massive hardware and you have to have multiple servers because you run out of space very quickly. That was one of the issues with Dynatrace.

          The other issue was it didn't play nicely with some of our applications. We actually saw problems with one of our critical business applications that we were doing a PoV with. When we put AppDynamics on that same application, we didn't see any issues. Dynatrace was creating quite a large memory overhead; AppDynamics, under 1%.

          When I'm looking for a vendor, before, the most important criteria used to be, what does the tool provide, but after working with AppDynamics, it's support. It doesn't matter how great the tool is; if the support isn't that good, you can't get the most out of the tool.

          What other advice do I have?

          Do a PoV of AppDynamics on a critical application. Get that initial win, and use that win to drive adoption throughout the organization.

          I haven’t rated it higher because of the comparison between AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Dynatrace does give you more, richer information, but it's not scalable. There are certain things that I kind of miss with AppDynamics but it's not something that I'm going to cry about because of the other overall value that it provides, and the ease of use of it.

          In addition to AppDynamics APM, we're also using RUM and Mobile UM.

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            Systems & Network Administration Manager at Jack Henry & Associates
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            Dynamic baselining is a big plus. For example, for different times of the day or different days of the week.

            What is most valuable?

            The dynamic baselining is a big plus; being able to get rolling baselines for different times of the day, different days of the week, days of the month. Alerting is a big feature; being able to receive alerts when we have things that kind of go out of bounds. Dashboarding is also a pretty big one that we use a lot, along with the API; being able to put in our own data and add that to dashboards related to what AppDynamics itself is finding.

            How has it helped my organization?

            It's led to a very big decrease in MTTR when issues are encountered, as well as helped us to be a lot more proactive to be able to identify issues and customer degradation before customers start complaining about it.

            What needs improvement?

            The biggest complaint that we have at this point is the ability to exclude certain time frames from the dynamic baselining. If we have an event or something like that that we know performance goes significantly outside of the baseline, that ends up being part of the dynamic baseline, so you don't have the ability to alert and stuff on that going forward.

            What do I think about the stability of the solution?

            Overall, stability is very good.

            What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

            I haven't had any issues with availability or scalability.

            Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

            I did not previously use a different solution; no APM kind of tools.

            We realized we needed an APM solution mostly because of the growing complexity of the application. It's a lot easier to monitor an application, per se, if you have good control and you know what all the application is doing. I think most people would agree that as applications are growing, and becoming more and more complex, you have less and less people that actually understand what's going on. You need something like AppDynamics that will help bridge that gap between the people's understanding and what the application is actually doing.

            How was the initial setup?

            The overall setup of the application is extremely straight forward. We had a little added complexity, due to the size of our deployment, but really, it is far more straightforward than all the competitors’ products that we looked at.

            Which other solutions did I evaluate?

            We also primarily looked at CA Wily Introscope and Dynatrace.

            The biggest reason we chose AppDynamics was their ROI. AppDynamics was by far the quickest and easiest to get good results out of. The other two products required a lot more investment both as far as capital for purchasing systems to handle the load, as well as time to get the systems to really have useful data in them.

            What other advice do I have?

            The best advice would probably be to make sure that you know what your requirements are and that you're analyzing the tools to your requirements. Look at things such as capital and time to roll out. That makes a big difference in the ROI for a product.

            Overall, it's a very strong product. It has most of the features that I think we need. There are a few things that could be improved, like the ability to exclude stuff from the baseline. It's not quite perfect, but other than some usability improvements, I think it's a very great product.

            We use AppDynamics APM, as well AppDynamics EUM.

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              Top 5Leaderboard
              We've had experience using Dynatrace, CA & Gomez but AppDynamics excels in terms of implementation, footprint & overhead
              Pros and Cons
              • "Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
              • "Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"

              What is our primary use case?

              Extensive use cases, dozens of primary and secondary use cases ranging from core application monitoring at the global level to micro level performance analysis at the transaction level. AppD provides the ability to also manage total interactions at the web/mobile browser level, the database and core infrastructure including server level and L4 network.

              How has it helped my organization?

              We are a services organization, so we use AppDynamics with our customers. It has allowed us to expand our footprint in the application management business with virtually all of our major accounts. We were able to expand and go into other applications that we weren't in or offering previously. We have a new value proposition for our customers- enhanced visibility, enhanced stability, and we can reduce our costs to them because our cost structure is reduced by using AppDynamics. We have other examples like this as well where AppDynamics has improved the way we function and operate. As of date of this article, our company has in excess of 30,000 AppDynamics agents deployed globally and we are monitoring billions of annual page views for major customers.

              Furthermore, AppDynamics is a key toolset and drives tremendous value and efficiency in our remote performance management center which supports over 10,000 retail locations on behalf of our retail customers.

              For how long have I used the solution?

              I have been using this solution for more than five years.

              What do I think about the stability of the solution?

              We didn't have any issues with stability. Highly stable with extremely light impact- negligible.

              What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

              We didn't have any issues with scalability. Unbelievably scalable - we selected this solution for its ability to aggregate thousands and thousand of end point monitoring.

              How are customer service and support?

              Customer Service:

              AppDynamics redefines customer services, especially in post sales support- maybe one of the most responsive service desk teams in the industry.

              Technical Support:

              They have done a superb job of getting some obscenely bright software people with a passion for customer services and unleashed them in the market. Some of the finest technical support in the industry.

              How was the initial setup?

              The initial setup was extremely straightforward- we can have an enterprise deployment with several dozen end points being monitored in less than 3 hours.

              What about the implementation team?

              Our first few implementations we did ourselves and then for our first major customer implementation we got AppDynamics to assist. We currently support all of our internal and external deployments.

              Which other solutions did I evaluate?

              We're regularly looking at various options. Even before we made the decision to standardize on AppDynamics, we already had experience with BMC Appsight. We also had experience using Dynatrace, CA and Gomez at some of our customer's environments. We also heard our customers talking about their experiences with these other products.

              What other advice do I have?

              You can't over-speak importance of deployment, configuration and infrastructure footprint because what happens is that people get excited when they see the output of various products (such as Dynatrace or CA Wiley). They say, "wow, it's very powerful, we've never had visibility, we're going to implement at all costs." Then they buy the solution and they realize they need 5X the amount of servers, a lot of storage, experts to manage it, etc.

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                From a con perspective there are coverage gaps in terms of monitoring critical if not legacy architectures like mainframe type systems. Despite the slow erosion of the mainframe base- it seems that many major, major organizations are still leveraging MF technology in their stack typically due to the costs of converting - but most likely due to the fact that those machines never stop working and rarely have errors like open systems. When a customer leverages for instance Infor software in their architecture - this will be a gap from an AppDynamics monitoring perspective. I have also mentioned the lack of coverage in SAP worlds which in essence removes a big part of the critical application market. However, I have been recently informed that the lack of monitoring coverage is less about technical fit and more about SAP restrictive licensing and support policies :-0

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                Senior Performance Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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                Top 5
                Useful monitoring, scales well, and straightforward implementation
                Pros and Cons
                • "The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
                • "AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."

                What is our primary use case?

                AppDynamics is an APM tool. We use it for application performance monitoring for a financial company. It is an end-to-end monitoring solution for any application and works with different technologies, such as Java and .NET.

                The company was able to monitor their transactions with the financial institution to determine where the problems were in a particular brand. The company was satisfied with the performance of the solution.

                How has it helped my organization?

                This solution has reduced our customer's time to resolve issues.

                What is most valuable?

                The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring.

                What needs improvement?

                AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach.

                It's an agent-based software that must be deployed multiple times whereas competitors have one agent that can deploy everywhere.

                For how long have I used the solution?

                I have been using AppDynamics for approximately six years.

                What do I think about the stability of the solution?

                AppDynamics is a stable solution, but sometimes the analytics goes down and does not work or customers' addresses do not get collected. However, overall it is stable.

                What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

                All of the IT and business staff are using the solution.

                The scalability of the solution is good.

                How are customer service and support?

                The support could improve.

                Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

                I used Dynatrace prior to AppDynamics. The switch was a business decision.

                How was the initial setup?

                The process of implementing AppDynamics is straightforward, but it ultimately depends on your specific use case. You can easily implement an agent if you have a simple use case.

                There is an agent that needs to be copied into the project and actioned to start.

                Using it can be somewhat complex as it requires manual configuration, such as when creating a dashboard. If you have a more complex use case, the manual configuration can take a considerable amount of time. Additionally, there is a learning curve associated with this tool, and it takes time to gain expertise. It is not something that anyone can easily configure without investing the necessary time and effort.

                It takes three to four months to become an expert in the tool to be able to use it effectively.

                What about the implementation team?

                To complete the implementation of the solution the staff that have access to production are involved. There are a few people that are needed.

                What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

                There is a license needed to use the solution and it is expensive. The licensing model needs to improve.

                Which other solutions did I evaluate?

                There are other solutions that are better at APM than AppDynamics.

                What other advice do I have?

                AppDynamics is primarily an APM tool, and if you're looking for end-to-end monitoring and AI ops capabilities, it may not be the best fit. For instance, if you want to analyze transitions, pinpoint failures, and view logs all in the same tool, AppDynamics may not provide a complete solution.

                I rate AppDynamics an eight out of ten.

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                  Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
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                  Beneficial application analysis, highly scalable, and great ROI
                  Pros and Cons
                  • "I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
                  • "There are too many installers available for this solution."

                  What is our primary use case?

                  We have an application that we have made which is the core of our business. In many cases, new code comes out or there is older code that gets mixed with newer code and you will see slowdowns or problems that can happen. This solution gatherings all this different pertinent information about how long a particular piece of code sits in what stack of the application. When you have a slowdown or an issue is happening, you can look through the application processes step by step. You can find out where the application was lagging behind.

                  Most recently, we had a problem with some SQL queries that were not optimized in our application. It was taking approximately 30 seconds for the code to get a return. We were able to narrow down where the problem was by using this solution to find out what was taking a long time on that particular query, it turned out to be the DVAs. The DVAs were able to be fine-tuned to make the query a little bit more efficient because we were returning much more data than what was actually needed for that part. We were able to simplify it and it went from 30 seconds down half a second.

                  What is most valuable?

                  I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure.

                  What needs improvement?

                  There are too many installers available for this solution. There is a separate installer for many things, for example, .net. There should be one installer for each operating system, such as Windows and Linux. They then can let you choose what options that you want for that particular operating system because trying to find all the different pieces separately is more complicated than it needs to be.

                  In an upcoming release, there could be better integration with the infrastructure. Currently, the solution is able to tell you where the problem is but it is not narrow enough. For example, it can show that the issue is in the data server and it took a certain time to process, but that does not necessarily narrow it down to the query where it actually was. You just know that the problem is within the database server. Sometimes it is very obvious it was the query, but other times it could be just that the server is light on resources. It would be beneficial if it could integrate more with some of the infrastructures to have the ability to correlate between the two to see whether the problem is actually with the code or it is a problem with the underlying infrastructure.

                  For how long have I used the solution?

                  I have been using the solution for approximately one year.

                  What do I think about the stability of the solution?

                  The solution is stable.

                  What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

                  The scalability of this solution is fantastic. We have approximately 50 developers and six infrastructure engineers using this solution and our parent company has over 400 employees. I have found it to be a very good enterprise solution. 

                  If we hire more staff I think there could be in increase usage of this solution.

                  How are customer service and technical support?

                  The customer support is good. We have not had many big problems, the application just works. The solution has never taken down any of our servers. Other than calling support to figure out where a particular installer is and how to configure it properly, I have not needed to call them.

                  How was the initial setup?

                  The installation was straightforward. There were initial issues with licenses and we had to move some licenses around to give more to their lower environment systems to allow us to put all our information into one place. This took a while, they did not make this part very easy.

                  What about the implementation team?

                  Our parent company set up all the backend for this solution and I did all the client configurations on the actual servers. 

                  What was our ROI?

                  You save time by using this solution allowing you to utilize that saved time towards developing new features for your customers versus trying to troubleshoot the ones that are not working properly. The return on investment is instant.

                  What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

                  There is a license required for each system that we use the solution on.

                  This solution is not the cheapest but it works well. You will end up doing more work with a cheaper solution than if you just spent the extra money on a better solution like this one. 

                  What other advice do I have?

                  I would advise others wanting to purchase this solution it is well worth the money. If you look at the quantity of time it takes you to track down a problem versus doing it the old-fashioned way, the amount of time saved by using a solution like this helps you move forward more quickly. 

                  I rate AppDynamics a ten out of ten.

                  Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

                  On-premises
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