AppDynamics Server Monitoring vs PRTG Network Monitor comparison

AppDynamics and Paessler GmbH are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. AppDynamics is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.4, while Paessler GmbH is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.7. AppDynamics holds a 0.6% mindshare in IM, compared to Paessler GmbH’s 4.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of AppDynamics users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Paessler GmbH users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 5, 2024

PRTG Network Monitor and AppDynamics Server Monitoring are both robust monitoring solutions competing in the network and server monitoring category. User reviews indicate PRTG seems to have the upper hand in terms of pricing and ease of deployment, while AppDynamics stands out for its superior features that justify its higher price.

Features: PRTG Network Monitor offers comprehensive sensor options, flexibility in monitoring devices, and a user-friendly interface. AppDynamics Server Monitoring provides advanced analytics, deep application performance insights, and extensive monitoring capabilities.

Room for Improvement: PRTG Network Monitor could improve its reporting functions, modernize its interface, and enhance integration capabilities. AppDynamics users see the need for better integration, simplified licensing models, and a more intuitive user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PRTG Network Monitor is praised for its straightforward setup process and responsive customer support. AppDynamics, while eventually powerful, has a steeper learning curve and requires more initial configuration.

Pricing and ROI: PRTG Network Monitor’s pricing structure is generally more affordable and transparent, offering good ROI for small to mid-sized organizations. AppDynamics is priced higher but users believe the return on investment is justified due to its extensive features and deeper monitoring capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Server Monitoring

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

15th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

PRTG Network Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (5th), Cloud Monitoring Software (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Server Monitoring is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PRTG Network Monitor is 4.5%, down from 5.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Featured Reviews

Rahul -Jain

SDET ANALYST SENIOR at TSYS

Aug 6, 2024

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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Noman-Saleem

Network Support Officer at Habib Metropolitan Bank Ltd

Oct 29, 2024

Detects suden changes but significant pricing concerns affect the effectiveness of network traffic troubleshooting

We use PRTG Network Monitor for monitoring traffic on interfaces and the behavior of network traffic. If there are sudden changes in traffic or any configuration issues, we can sort them out using PRTG. It's very helpful for troubleshooting and monitoring traffic utilization on our interfaces…

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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 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."

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

"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."

"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I don't see any problems in the solution...The solution's technical support was good."

"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."

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"The bandwidth monitoring is a very attractive feature, it can tell you the bandwidth utilization while it is attempting to connect to the host for feedback."

"Good compilation of the system's information."

"It is great for service level agreements and can comply fully with internet monitoring or any interface."

"The sensors and remote probes are phenomenal. We use them for all of our global sites. The problem with our global sites are that they are all VPNs. If the link goes down, you can't monitor other solutions, as it just goes off the grid. Having remote probes allows them to still carry on and get the information that we need when it comes back up, sending the information to us."

"It is pretty simple to use, which is always a good thing. It's been very reliable in updating us if any issues crop up."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The technical support seems to be quick, clever, and has a comprehensive knowledge base online, which is fantastic."

"Speed of deployment is one of the most valuable features."

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Cons

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

"The solution could be more mobile friendly."

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

"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."

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

"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’s setup is a bit complex."

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

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"Once you start going above 5000 sensors, things do start to get a bit shaky. There are some best practice out there that you will need to adopt and be aware of."

"The only sort of limitation is the actual probes. So, if you don't have enough probes on there, you can over flip them and cause the WMI sensors and SNMP sensors to sort of overload. Sometimes, they might timeout for a minute, but they do come back."

"The inventory of the device should be improved."

"In a very few cases, customers want more detailed reports, which we cannot meet."

"We need something that is more predictive. We would prefer if it wasn't a solution that was corrective and instead offered predictive insights so that we can handle problems before they even occur."

"The solution could be better and faster when it comes to performance."

"Can be slow in the way it polls the different engines."

"We would like to monitor certain aspects of the user experience. We should be able to analyze the cause of end user experience, bad or good, so we can do some research and development on our own."

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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 tool is expensive."

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

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an expensive solution."

"The solution has a high cost."

"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."

"The licensing cost is fairly high"

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an expensive solution."

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"I rate the licensing for PRTG Network Monitor an eight out of ten."

"I rate the price of PRTG Network Monitor an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price."

"We bought a license for 4000 sensors."

"We have unlimited devices and sensors, and it is a bit pricey, but we do have unlimited sensors. With all things considered the price is fine, related to the solution itself. PRTG Network Monitor is good value for money."

"We are licensed for 2500 endpoints."

"It is expensive."

"One thing I like is that when you buy sensors, it's a perpetual license, so once you buy 2,000 sensors, you've got 2,000 sensors; it's not a recurring cost."

"While I am not the person who deals with pricing, I would say that we pay around 1000 pounds a year."

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it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

32%

Computer Software Company

21%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Educational Organization

52%

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Government

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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 is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

PRTG network monitor is one of the best tool i have ever used for the monitoring. It have auto discovery option. it avoid the configuring the device in PRTG. It automatically discover the device an...

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What do you like most about PRTG Network Monitor?

The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PRTG Network Monitor?

PRTG Network Monitor used to be reasonably priced, but after changing to subscription models, the costs have increased. The solution remains user-friendly, which usually convinces customers despite...

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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.

PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.

To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.

Sample Customers

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

Jameson Bank, Sidnix, RungeICT, MedicalAnimal, Truck-lite, GamingGrids, The Covell Group, Forsythn County Schools, NetMass, Musgrove Park Hospital, Lanes Health, Columbia Southern University, Vodafone, Intrust Bank

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