AppDynamics Server Monitoring vs Nutanix Prism comparison

The compared AppDynamics and Nutanix solutions aren't in the same category. AppDynamics is ranked #15 in IM , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 0.6% mindshare in the category. Nutanix is ranked #2 in VM , with an average rating of 9.1, and holds a 24.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of AppDynamics users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

AppDynamics Server Monitoring

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98% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Server Monitoring and Nutanix Prism based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Server Monitoring

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (15th)

Nutanix Prism

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Virtualization Management Tools (2nd), Data Center Infrastructure Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

AppDynamics Server Monitoring and Nutanix Prism aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. AppDynamics Server Monitoring is designed for IT Infrastructure Monitoring and holds a mindshare of 0.6%, down 0.7% compared to last year.
Nutanix Prism, on the other hand, focuses on Virtualization Management Tools, holds 24.7% mindshare, up 17.5% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

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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Arpan Rakshit

IT System Administrator at Bandhan Bank

Reduced our administration and rack space significantly, with everything in one box

Nutanix is a great product, but I won't say it is a data center product. If it could leverage or work with non-Nutanix infrastructure, it would be a total data center solution. Right now, with Prism Central, we can only manage Nutanix clusters. If we were able to manage the whole data center from the single pane of glass, it would be more helpful. I think that would help all customers. Also, Nutanix Flow for microsegmentation is limited right now to AHV clusters, meaning only Nutanix clusters. If it could integrate with all my infrastructure, I would have a pane of glass where I could manage my whole data center, including microsegmentation. They really need to extend its features beyond the Nutanix infrastructure. That is the one thing I would really like to see improvement on.

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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 auto-discovery of the logs is the most valuable feature. It requires minimal configuration, we just need to set up on once and it automatically detects through the code."

"Setting up the monitoring agents was straightforward."

"The solution's most valuable features are its end-user monitoring and AI functionalities."

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

"The platform is reliable in identifying the core system issues."

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

"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."

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"For me, the speed of cloning virtual machines and the hyper-convergence feature are the most valuable aspects of the solution."

"Simplicity, automation, and efficiency are some good areas associated with the tool."

"What I like the most are the self-healing and the ability to see everything at a glance, from metrics to the resiliency status of the hardware. As soon as you log in, that's what you see."

"I don't know how to explain how much time and effort switching to Nutanix HCI has saved us. It's 80 percent more time-efficient and convenient than having to use multiple interfaces to deal with storage and compute in our hypervisor."

"The solution is a high-performance platform that effectively handles three-layered issues like SA and network fiber cables."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Prism is the single location management. You can manage everything from one location HTML5 web interface which is highly intuitive. The solution is easy to use, you do not need to be an expert in storage."

"We were impressed with Nutanix, overall. Some of the other main drivers for our switch to it were the simplicity of setting up our Nutanix clusters, ease of management, and that their support is very respected. There is an overall ease of use, compared to VMware. I'm sold on their product."

"Nutanix has one of the greatest support organizations that I've ever had to use. They're polite, you get someone on the phone fast, and they always find a solution for you."

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Cons

"The configuration is tricky and requires a lot of tools."

"There are certain limitations with the agents in the solution"

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring lacks investment in new technologies like Kubernetes and cloud solutions."

"The product’s dashboard could be more easy to implement."

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

"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’s setup is a bit complex."

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

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"The main area where an improvement could be made would be the pricing."

"I would like to see the integration of native, one-click "open support ticket" functionality for errors generated by the system within Prism. Currently, we have to manually open a support ticket in a separate web browser and manually input the error information."

"The solution does not support creating hybrid disc clusters."

"The stability has room for improvement."

"One problem I faced when creating a VM and adding a hard disk to is that Nutanix Prism did not allow me to reduce that VM's hard disk."

"The replication we have does not have any backup systems built-in. We have to separate license records for backup, like onboard. We would like to have this in a future release."

"There are a few areas related to visibility on the dashboard that can be improved. It's good, but the visibility can be improved in terms of single locations."

"I wish the main landing page, the dashboard, could be organized in a way where, when there is an alert because something is wrong, I would not have to click three or four times to get to what actually happened. I wish it were quicker to get to the bottom of the problem."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is expensive."

"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 an expensive solution."

"The solution has a high cost."

"The licensing cost is fairly high"

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

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

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an expensive solution."

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"The pricing is reasonable, approximately $400 to $500 per core."

"Nutanix have bundles for pricing. On a single bundle, we get everything including vSAN or VMware and there are no additional costs. It is just a single license that is needed."

"The licensing aspect is painful. We are told, "This is when you have to renew. This is the serial number and the part number," et cetera. But it's difficult to know where something belongs unless you dive into the portal and search in multiple areas for a particular serial number."

"Compared to VMware, the price of this solution is great."

"The pricing was decent, average. It wasn't a Black Friday sale, but it was good."

"The license for Prism is costlier than other VMs."

"The cost for the licenses was a bit expensive."

"A lot of my customers complain about the price of renewals, so I think that this can be improved."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

32%

Computer Software Company

22%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

26%

Government

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Comms Service Provider

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Small Business

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 Nutanix Prism?

Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Prism?

The pricing is reasonable, approximately $400 to $500 per core.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Prism?

There is a need for more migration tools, especially for migrating a solution from non-Nutanix environments to a Nutanix environment, particularly for systems with shared disks.

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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.

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

Sample Customers

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

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen

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