AppDynamics Database Monitoring vs Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) comparison

AppDynamics and Google are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. AppDynamics is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.5, while Google is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.8. AppDynamics holds a 0.3% mindshare in APM, compared to Google’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of AppDynamics users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Google users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

AppDynamics Database Monitoring and Google Cloud's operations suite are competitors in the database performance management market. Google Cloud’s operations suite has an upper hand due to its feature-rich offerings and advanced predictive analytics.

Features: AppDynamics Database Monitoring provides comprehensive database performance metrics, detailed analytics, and robust monitoring tools. Google Cloud’s operations suite offers extensive logging, advanced monitoring capabilities, and predictive analytics, providing a more well-rounded feature set.

Room for Improvement: AppDynamics needs better integration with other tools, a more streamlined alerting system, and improved user interface. Google Cloud's operations suite requires enhanced documentation, a more intuitive setup process, and better guidance during initial implementations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AppDynamics Database Monitoring is reported as easy to deploy with good customer support. Google Cloud’s operations suite is seen as complex to deploy but backed by effective customer service, which helps resolve issues promptly.

Pricing and ROI: AppDynamics Database Monitoring is considered cost-effective with a quicker ROI. Despite its higher price, Google Cloud’s operations suite is deemed to offer a strong ROI due to its comprehensive features and scalability, justifying the higher initial investment.

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Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Database Monito...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (24th), Cloud Monitoring Software (21st)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Database Monitoring is 0.3%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is 1.5%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Siva Jp

Chief Architect - Cloud Xperienz Platform - CIS Technology Office at LTIMindtree

Helps the application team improve the user experience and reduce the impact of any problems

We used Dynatrace, which comes with full-stack observability. Full-stack observability has evolved to the point where, competitively, you can ask how AppDynamics and Dynatrace compare. Dynatrace takes a slight lead here. It can do dynamic baselining and anomaly detection. It gives a little more transactional insights and is more comprehensive. There's a slight difference, but not a major impact, in terms of database monitoring on both tools. They are both competitive products. One way they try to compete is in terms of APIs, but the only difference I see is that AppDynamics has a slight advantage in one area. We don't have multiple agents, we go with the concept of one agent. Second, Dynatrace leads in observability, integrating with other on-premises and cloud systems. They are both competitive enough in the same pricing range. They are not so different, they are both in the same range. If you go and negotiate, they are the same.

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Anand_Patel

Senior Technical Architect at T-Systems International GmbH

Offers reliable Ops Agent and logging transport feature with easy third-party integrations

As part of our company, we implemented several changes in our log analytics pattern, including the storage and procurement process. Earlier, before implementing the solution, our company was able to procure only one year of data, but later, we came to the three-year mark. Around 15-20% reduction has been witnessed in the total analytic consumption of our company. The aforementioned result was possible because the solution allowed the creation of a dashboard where factors like storage costs, proportion of logs, and logs presence in a storage bucket or BigQuery can all be checked. Earlier all logs were stored in a raw storage, but currently our company is able to move logs in table bucket that contributes towards cost savings.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Data monitoring is the most valuable feature."

"AppDynamics is scalable. They can monitor billions of transactions because they're not monitoring all transactions. They're monitoring samples. So, they can offer good monitoring for the huge sites."

"The most valuable feature in this solution, for our business, is the clear way of projecting the connections between the database and the traffic inflow. This is very helpful when troubleshooting issues."

"I have found some of the valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring to be once the installation is complete, you are able to quickly start receiving metrics, which is great. The user interface is also very user-friendly."

"The solution is great for database monitoring. You don't have to install an agent on the database. You just install the server to a database agent. It's a good product for some database administration if you don't want to install an agent on the database for security."

"The ability to identify the top running queries has been extremely valuable for us."

"In my experience, it's easy to use. There's nothing complex to learn or fear. You can quickly adapt to it without the need for extensive training."

"What I found valuable in AppDynamics Database Monitoring is good technical support. I also like that it's scalable and stable."

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"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."

"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."

"Google's technical support is very good."

"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"

"I like the monitoring feature."

"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."

"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."

"We find the solution to be stable."

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Cons

"This product has an issue with initial lag upon opening that we would like to see improved."

"The user access management could be a bit better."

"The product lost its place as an industry leader."

"The synthetic scripting for end-user monitoring could be a little bit broader. Instead of using just Python, they can include a few other languages so that not everyone has to jump on the bandwagon for Python and do Selenium scripting. They can open up that a bit to make it simpler for people to do the scripting."

"The application end of AppDynamics Database Monitoring needs to improve by checking which applications consume licenses."

"They could align the product strategy to evolve as a complete solution."

"The setup, implementation and use are clumsy and need to be refined."

"The networking monitor function could be better, we are not getting many details from it."

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"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."

"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."

"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."

"The process of logging analytics can be improved"

"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."

"It could be more stable."

"The logging functionality could be better."

"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I give the price a five out of ten."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring is expensive. I rate it a seven to eight out of ten."

"The license for AppDynamics is procured by our customers."

"We buy the platform's yearly subscription."

"We have purchased a few licenses for AppDynamics Database Monitoring and the price is high."

"Pricing is based on the size of the deployment."

"If one is expensive and ten is low price, I rate the product price as seven out of ten."

"There is an annual cost for the use of this solution."

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"The cost could be lower."

"The cost of using Stackdriver depends on usage."

"We have a basic standard license without any additional costs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

37%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

The price is not cheap, however, considering the benefits and the price ratio, I would rate it nine out of ten.

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What needs improvement with AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Based on my experience, some databases like Couchbase, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB require a little bit of enhancement as they are newer and not as widely used as other databases. The limitations are o...

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What do you like most about Google Stackdriver?

It's easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Stackdriver?

This is a very cheap product.

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What needs improvement with Google Stackdriver?

If the errors are caught early in the interface, it would be easier for users to manage. The process of logging analytics can be improved.

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Overview

More than half of application performance bottlenecks originate in the database, but most application teams have little or no visibility into database performance. With AppDynamics' database performance management product, you get 100% visibility into application performance, from the browser to the database.

Key Benefits

Visualize end-to-end application performance, from the browser to the database
Get alerts when database thresholds are violated
Monitor key performance metrics like top users, programs, SQL, objects and more.
See execution plans for slow SQL to isolate performance bottlenecks

Real-time log management and analysis

Cloud Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale and can ingest application and platform log data, as well as custom log data from GKE environments, VMs, and other services inside and outside of Google Cloud. Get advanced performance, troubleshooting, security, and business insights with Log Analytics, integrating the power of BigQuery into Cloud Logging.

Built-in metrics observability at scale

Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications. Collect metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud services, hosted uptime probes, application instrumentation, and a variety of common application components. Visualize this data on charts and dashboards and create alerts so you are notified when metrics are outside of expected ranges.

Stand-alone managed service for running and scaling Prometheus

Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution, built on top of the same globally scalable data store as Cloud Monitoring. Keep your existing visualization, analysis, and alerting services, as this data can be queried with PromQL or Cloud Monitoring.

Monitor and improve your application's performance

Application Performance Management (APM) combines the monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities of Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring with Cloud Trace and Cloud Profiler to help you reduce latency and cost so you can run more efficient applications.

Sample Customers

Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia

Uber, Batterii, Q42, Dovetail Games

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