AppDynamics Server Monitoring vs Nutanix Prism comparison

The compared AppDynamics and Nutanix solutions aren't in the same category. AppDynamics is ranked #16 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 24.9% 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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Executive Summary

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 (16th)

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 (4th)

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 24.9% mindshare, up 17.3% 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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The correlation feature available with AppDynamics Server Monitoring is absent in other competitive solutions"

"Setting up the monitoring agents was straightforward."

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

"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."

"This solution gives us quite good insights that we might otherwise overlook, or it might take a really long time to debug those issues."

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

"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."

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

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"Since we began using Nutanix the performance for virtual desktops is much better."

"Prism provides us with insights and the ability to access all the sub-components of Nutanix's hyperconverged platform."

"The GUI and the dashboard are impressive. I like that you can modify the GUI and the dashboard as per your requirements."

"The GUI is user-friendly."

"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's technical support is helpful and responsive."

"Has a user-friendly UI with a centralized console."

"Prism's best features include the single point of failure (SPOF) and ease of implementation."

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Cons

"The solution could be more mobile friendly."

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

"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."

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

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

"Things are being done differently in the industry now, and many of these problems are being solved with cloud databases."

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring has room for improvement in terms of pricing. If the price could be cheaper, it would be great for both the customer and the integrator. What I'd like to see in the next release of AppDynamics Server Monitoring is a better dashboard for the customer. The dashboard should be more interactive."

"The one thing that I find it difficult in using AppDynamics is, for any new user, it's not easy for him or her to configure the transactions in AppDynamics because the UI is pretty complex. The configuration is pretty complex for a new, fresh user. They can make the UI simpler, that'll be very helpful for anyone to configure their website in AppDynamics."

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"Perhaps the interface can be more intuitive."

"The VM backup could be better, and its licensing could be better. We have had some licensing issues with Nutanix Files. The default license should be 1 TB or more. Currently, for Nutanix Files sharing, we can only use 500 Gigabytes."

"The life cycle management or LCM feature is the most complicated. It takes really long and is unpredictable for our use cases. They should provide more detailed information about the kind of LCM to go for, various errors, and different kinds of tasks. For analytics for certain configurations, we require more details with the report. Sometimes, not all elements are present for support, management, and configuration. For troubleshooting, it would be very easy and useful if we can analyze log files directly from Prism, that is, not from the command line but directly from Prism."

"Nutanix Prism needs more flexibility commercially and more flexibility with their licensing. Currently they're very fixed on their licensing model, for example, it's based on terabyte calculation."

"The pricing could be improved."

"Nutanix does not support all of the Linux distributions, so we have to use VMware in some cases."

"No integration of commands to manage AHV."

"It doesn't integrate very well with any backup solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an expensive solution."

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

"The licensing cost is fairly high"

"The solution has a high cost."

"The tool is expensive."

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"I rate the product price as an eight out of ten."

"The license we bought for Nutanix Prism is perpetual, so once you have it, you can keep on using it. It's a three-year license that's paid one time. The license we have covers the three-node cluster."

"Nutanix Prism is quite an expensive solution compared to VMware."

"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 is fairly high in price. If someone can get over the fact that the licensing is fairly expensive, I would say Nutanix is the way to go. It is expensive, but to me, it's worth it."

"...we use it for small and medium-sized businesses. For those companies, Nutanix is too expensive, it's for bigger businesses..."

"As far as pricing goes, it's competitive for what you get. There are probably less expensive hyper-converged solutions, but I don't think they're as mature or have the feature set that we get with Nutanix."

"Microsoft Hyper-V is free, whereas Nutanix isn't. Nutanix isn't so expensive. VMware is more expensive than Nutanix, but with VMware, there aren't many licenses, whereas, in the case of Nutanix, we need to upgrade the license periodically. It could be every three years or five years. It depends on your license. There are no costs in addition to the licensing fee."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

31%

Computer Software Company

21%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

26%

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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 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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