AppDynamics Server Monitoring vs Cisco Intersight comparison

AppDynamics and Cisco are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. AppDynamics is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.3, while Cisco is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.8. AppDynamics holds a 0.6% mindshare in IM, compared to Cisco’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of AppDynamics users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Cisco users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

AppDynamics Server Monitoring and Cisco Intersight both compete in the server monitoring solutions category, offering robust capabilities for modern enterprises. Cisco Intersight seems to have the upper hand with its comprehensive features, which users believe justify the investment compared to AppDynamics.

Features: AppDynamics Server Monitoring provides real-time performance monitoring, quick issue identification with end-to-end capabilities, and user-praised dynamic learning for infrastructure. Cisco Intersight offers seamless cloud integration, diverse configuration support, and unified portal views for data center management with integrations like HashiCorp and Kubernetes.

Room for Improvement: AppDynamics Server Monitoring could improve in application integration, license management, and analytics refinement. Cisco Intersight requires enhancements in hybrid cloud management, third-party tool integration, and increased automation features. Its complexity poses challenges for user adoption.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AppDynamics Server Monitoring is slightly more complex to deploy across server environments than Cisco Intersight. Both products provide strong support, with AppDynamics offering quick technical assistance, while Cisco Intersight's service responsiveness varies depending on location.

Pricing and ROI: AppDynamics Server Monitoring is more expensive, though negotiation can improve costs, and it shows positive ROI in SAP environments. Cisco Intersight's pricing is viewed as more competitive and cost-effective, with both solutions delivering substantial ROI aligned with critical customer needs over two to three years.

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Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Server Monitoring

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

16th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Cisco Intersight

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

19th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Server Monitoring is 0.6%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco Intersight is 2.4%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Rahul -Jain

SDET ANALYST SENIOR at TSYS

User-friendly and provides good response time from the end-to-end server

We are not using the alerts as we have different mechanisms called resilience testing or kiosk testing. The DevOps team uses the alerts. During production, they will get alerts when they see the CPU utilization going beyond the 60% or 70% benchmark they have set. AppDynamics and Dynatrace are the only two tools that provide accurate or stable end-to-end response time. These two tools can show you everything that's going on from the back end. If we are doing performance testing or any testing, these two tools can provide us with every detail about what's happening in the back end from the server side that we can't see. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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David Fartouk

CTO at Trust-IT Solutions

Helps know whether a solution is deployed correctly, but the automation capabilities are difficult to use

We used the solution's automation capabilities, but it wasn’t easy. It was part of why we took some time to deploy the solution. It didn't give us much value. It wasn't that good. Intersight is a pretty complex solution. It can give you a lot of things, but nothing is simple. The usability must be better.

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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 event alerting feature or the trigger system is what I like most about AppDynamics Server Monitoring. Whenever an issue occurs, the tool automatically generates an even trigger that tells engineers in the company to take action, so it's an essential feature of AppDynamics Server Monitoring. Another valuable feature of the tool is end-to-end monitoring, which means if you need to debug, you can go transaction by transaction, where the issue lies, and how it's linked. For example, if it's a low-performance issue, you can look into it more through AppDynamics Server Monitoring in terms of which area takes too much time to execute. You can also see the SQL queries and the kind of query going on through the tool."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the response time from the end-to-end server."

"I like Business iQ the most, so far. It has great analytics configurations and I can get real-time updates. We have eCommerce releases every week. So the one use case that I use Business iQ is to compare before and after release performance using AppDynamics."

"The solution offers great visibility that allows you to track where errors originated."

"What I like most about AppDynamics Server Monitoring is that it's easy to manipulate and easy to implement. All solutions have the same features, but what sets AppDynamics Server Monitoring apart is that it's really quick to implement. AppDynamics Server Monitoring has a great interface. As a developer, it doesn't matter whether it's SolarWinds, Dynatrace, or any APM you're using, but it would matter to the customer. A product must be easy to manipulate or use, for example, AppDynamics Server Monitoring, for the customer, but for developers like my team, there's no pressure, even if a solution requires coding."

"We can view the server activities, including issues in the process, with a single click."

"The product provides a nice end-user experience."

"The alert mechanism in AppDynamics enhances server management tasks by using agents installed on each server."

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"I like Intersight because of the integration with HashiCorp, Kubernetes, and each cloud because Intersight is the IO module."

"Intersight can validate our environment."

"Intersight offers many features that provide great value to companies."

"Scalable portfolio of services for remote device management, with good cloud integration. It's also easy to set up."

"Our organization uses Cisco Intersight since it helps manage our physical infrastructure."

"We enjoy having an inside view of all the data centers and all the EdgeX nodes within a single portal rather than going into the EdgeX connections one by one."

"What I like most about Cisco Intersight is its manageability."

"Cisco Intersight has valuable features for workflow automation and inventory administration."

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Cons

"I would like the ability to choose from some pre-defined dashboards and reports because as it is now, you have to define them separately for each implementation."

"The solution could be more mobile friendly."

"An area for improvement in AppDynamics Server Monitoring is integration; in particular, it needs a better way to integrate with custom applications such as Siebel CRM. Right now, it's challenging to integrate AppDynamics Server Monitoring with Siebel CRM because it sometimes gives an error and cannot integrate properly."

"The solution has performance issues after we deploy the agent."

"I could not find a user-friendly interface for querying, and analytics sometimes gives the wrong results...I feel that analytics could have been better in searching and running the analytical queries."

"If we consider the implementation of alternative solutions, such as Dynatrace, there is a notable difference in the approach to agent-based service monitoring. For instance, Dynatrace employs a single-agent solution, which can pose security concerns. When installing Dynatrace, granting the agent ld pro payload rights is a requirement. In contrast, our solution ensures a more secure approach by not requiring root and administration access. While we currently utilize an agent-based solution, there may be a shift in the next one or two years, possibly with the adoption of Open Telemetry. It's anticipated that many APM vendors, including Dynatrace, may alter their structure or strategy for implementation. However, as of now, the trend is towards an increasing number of implementations daily."

"The tool should provide information like the number of connections and processes utilized in real time."

"The solution’s setup is a bit complex."

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"Technical support from Cisco has been mixed. For complex issues, it's challenging to get the right engineer quickly unless you have a specific contract like CX."

"The usability must be better."

"In the future, the solution needs to plan on an extension to cover a broader range of objects since, at present, there are some Cisco devices within the range of Intersight UCS that it can't manage."

"An area for improvement in Cisco Intersight is automation. It needs more automation capabilities. Apart from enhanced automation, I want Cisco Intersight to integrate with third-party monitoring tools in its next release."

"It's a very complex solution."

"The unique problem with Cisco Intersight is that it's not supporting some players."

"The product's setup should be easier."

"The solution needs some enhancement in order to build the cluster in two nodes."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an expensive solution."

"The solution has a high cost."

"The pricing for AppDynamics is expensive, but it is possible to negotiate special pricing through bids."

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an expensive solution."

"The pricing for AppDynamics Server Monitoring in Africa and the Middle East is too expensive, so it's very hard to sell it to customers. If there could be different pricing or package for the region, that would be great. My company pays for the license of AppDynamics Server Monitoring on a per-agent, per-server basis. It's $700 to $1000 per server, and it's paid annually. My company is on a subscription model for the solution. On a scale of one to five, where one is expensive and five is cheap, my rating for the price of AppDynamics Server Monitoring is a two."

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring is a very expensive product, but if you negotiate well, you get value for money...My company used to make early payments toward the licensing costs of the solution, but now my company has opted for a different licensing model."

"My understanding is that the price of this solution is quite high, compared to other products."

"The licensing cost is fairly high"

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"Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either."

"The product is cost-effective."

"Cisco Intersight has competitive pricing. On a scale of one to five, my rating for its pricing is four."

"It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees."

"You can get a free license for monitoring but need to purchase a license if you need extra control."

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

21%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AppDynamics Server Monitoring?

The platform is reliable in identifying the core system issues.

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

AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an expensive solution. The solution costs 5,000 per user.

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What needs improvement with AppDynamics Server Monitoring?

The solution's pricing could be improved and made more competitive.

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What do you like most about Cisco Intersight?

Intersight can validate our environment.

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What needs improvement with Cisco Intersight?

More products should be made compatible with iWORK, including more software and hardware. There is also a need to increase the number of partners.

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What is your primary use case for Cisco Intersight?

The most common use case was the HyperFlex deployment in the past. However, with HyperFlex being discontinued, I now focus my efforts on selling Intersight with iWORK Waterlog Optimizer. This is va...

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Overview

Application-centric server monitoring in context of your business transactions to proactively isolate and resolve application performance issues faster with actionable, correlated application-server metrics.

Cisco Intersight is Cisco’s systems management platform that delivers intuitive computing through cloud-powered intelligence. This platform offers a more intelligent level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments in ways that were not possible with prior generations of tools. This capability empowers organizations to achieve significant savings in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and to deliver applications faster, so they can support new business initiates. The advantages of the model-based management of the Cisco UCS platform plus Cisco Intersight are extended to Cisco UCS servers and Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco HyperFlex Edge systems. Cisco HyperFlex Edge is optimized for remote sites, branch offices, and edge environments.

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