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 8.6, while Google is ranked #26 with an average rating of 8.5. AppDynamics holds a 0.2% mindshare in APM, compared to Google’s 1.2% 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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Review summaries and opinions

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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

26th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (31st), Cloud Monitoring Software (24th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Database Monitoring is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is 1.2%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Nuno Rosa

Principal Consultant at Infosys

Has an easy initial setup process and has valuable database performance monitoring features

In one of the scenarios, a retail company encountered transaction failure issues. The problem was not with the card or payment system but the database operations. By utilizing AppDynamics, the team traced end-to-end transactions and identified a database latency problem. Monitoring the entire end-to-end system allows us to pinpoint performance issues in the database. Tracking the user journey helped us identify the issues between the middleware and the database. The topology view feature helps in effective monitoring. However, this feature was developed six years ago and still needs to be updated. The application needs broader improvements and reshaping for this particular area. Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases. During development, it integrates seamlessly with the SDLC. It detects and resolves performance issues, ensuring database availability and minimizing downtime. I rate it an eight out of ten.

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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

"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that we can see all query times. If a particular query is taking too much time, we can alert it."

"You have a live view of what happens when something goes wrong on the production or support side. You don't have to scramble and do guesswork. We can identify the query that creates the bottleneck or slows the performance of the database system. It can give you points on how to debug and fix the system."

"The good thing with AppDynamics Databases is that it will give you a pretty good overview of the data, all the database-like tables, long-running queries, jobs running on the databases, and the queries that are taking more time. So, it's at a deeper level with all the database functionalities, and you will get that information. So, it's a pretty good tool in that sense."

"To be honest, it's a fantastic product."

"The feature that is most valuable to us is the snapshot feature. It allows us to get a snapshot of different SQL scripts that are being executed simultaneously and we can identify everything we need on them."

"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 solution is very, very stable. We haven't faced any bugs or glitches on the system."

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

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"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."

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

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

"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."

"I like the monitoring feature."

"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."

"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"

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Cons

"The tool is expensive."

"The limitations are often due to the vendors not supplying all the profiling features to AppDynamics."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring could improve the price of the solution, it is costly."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be a better product if it could support new technology, such as cloud technology. Even Dynatrace lacks support for newer technologies."

"I believe they need to increase their level of visibility in the infrastructure, particularly in the infrastructure monitoring section, which currently lacks visibility."

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

"An improvement could be if the monitoring was able to be summarized into something more clear and simple for people who don't have the technical skills on the database side."

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

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"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."

"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."

"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."

"It could be even more automated."

"The process of logging analytics can be improved"

"It could be more stable."

"The logging functionality could be better."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The licensing scheme is very complex. They need to make it easier."

"It could be a bit lower, but looking at the scalability, functionality, and other things, you can understand why AppDynamics is so expensive as compared to some of the cheaper products that don't have that full single pane of glass they've got. Dynatrace has got three different elements that you need to log into just to get a full view, which is not so good, and because of that, it is a bit cheaper."

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

"We buy the platform's yearly subscription."

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

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

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

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"The cost of using Stackdriver depends on usage."

"The cost could be lower."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

39%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

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 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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What is your primary use case for Google Stackdriver?

I use the solution for logging, defining alerts, and monitoring. Our company's Java and Python logging teams mainly use it.

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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

AppDynamics

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.

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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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