AppDynamics Server Monitoring vs WhatsUp Gold comparison

AppDynamics and Progress Software are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. AppDynamics is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.3, while Progress Software is ranked #31 with an average rating of 8.7. AppDynamics holds a 0.6% mindshare in IM, compared to Progress Software’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of AppDynamics users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Progress Software users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

WhatsUp Gold and AppDynamics Server Monitoring are competing in the network and application monitoring space. AppDynamics Server Monitoring has the upper hand in comprehensive features, justifying its cost according to many.

Features: WhatsUp Gold offers customizable dashboards, robust network mapping tools, and cost-effective setup. AppDynamics Server Monitoring provides deep application performance insights, advanced analytics, and extensive monitoring capabilities.

Room for Improvement: WhatsUp Gold could improve the depth of its application insights, analytics capabilities, and feature range for advanced needs. AppDynamics Server Monitoring could enhance its installation simplicity, budget accommodation, and customization flexibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: WhatsUp Gold is known for a quick and straightforward installation process with responsive customer service. AppDynamics Server Monitoring, though complex due to its extensive capabilities, has strong customer service support.

Pricing and ROI: WhatsUp Gold is praised for affordable pricing and quick ROI realization, catering to smaller budgets. AppDynamics Server Monitoring, with a higher setup cost, provides substantial ROI in environments needing advanced monitoring features.

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Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Server Monitoring

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

15th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WhatsUp Gold

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

31st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (30th), Network Monitoring Software (32nd), Server Monitoring (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, 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 WhatsUp Gold is 1.1%, down from 1.3% 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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Tom Condo

Supervisor Information Services Operations at Seminole County Public Schools

If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue

When it comes to the intuitiveness of the topology mapping feature, our network architect created a vision diagram of our entire network and then created the links tied into the WhatsUp active monitoring to different spots on our topology map. It's one of the more critical functions we do here. We have the map displayed in different places in our room and help desk. We get alerted via emails but we can also see it visually. It does what it says it's going to do. We find this feature very helpful. The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is. All the information is provided. This feature really helps. You can see the correlation between that link and what failed. This feature is very helpful. The interface is fairly intuitive. Some of our users used SolarWinds and Nagios, and WhatsUp is easy in comparison. Once you get set up, the look, feel, and configuration are good. Our network architect had never used it before but he was able to create the Visio and map. It was very simple. He has no problems with it.

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

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

"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."

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

"The product has the ability to drill down to the errors whenever we have issues."

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

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

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

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"It handles the basics of monitoring."

"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."

"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."

"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."

"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."

"Our local support team provides excellent service."

"The tool's most valuable feature is the visibility it offers of everything in the network and infrastructure."

"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."

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Cons

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

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

"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 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."

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

"The solution could be more mobile friendly."

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

"In the next release, I would like to see the configuration of the data and more support for new applications. It should support new languages."

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"Regional product team support is not very good."

"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."

"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."

"The product is old and not updated."

"Improvements are needed in integration, especially for WhatsApp call and messages."

"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."

"Improvements are needed in integration, especially for WhatsApp call and messages. Our region heavily uses WhatsApp Messenger for communication, and integration with this platform would be beneficial."

"The interface needs some work."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution has a high cost."

"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."

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an expensive solution."

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

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

"The tool is expensive."

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"There is a license needed to use WhatsUp Gold."

"This is a well priced solution."

"The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive."

"Pricing is reasonable compared to other products."

"There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive. Aside from the initial cost for the tool, you need to pay additionally for support."

"The most valuable feature is the cost compared to other solutions."

"The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products."

"It is per device, per year. The pricing is very clear. If you have a service agreement, you get all of your major upgrades and minor upgrades. It was under $10,000 to go all-in with all of the different add-ons for it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

32%

Computer Software Company

22%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

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By reviewers

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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 WhatsUp Gold?

The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one l...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WhatsUp Gold?

Clients find the licensing calculator confusing, but we simplify this for them by collecting relevant information first. The licensing is based on devices, providing better cost-effectiveness than ...

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What needs improvement with WhatsUp Gold?

Improvements are needed in integration, especially for WhatsApp call and messages. Our region heavily uses WhatsApp Messenger for communication, and integration with this platform would be benefici...

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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.

Explore and manage your entire network infrastructure effortlessly with WhatsUp Gold's robust layer 2/3 discovery, creating a detailed interactive map from the edge to the cloud. Monitor devices, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, applications, and traffic flows across various environments. Real-time alerts ensure optimal performance, allowing you to meet or exceed SLAs. The platform offers customizable maps, dashboards, and alerts for easy network management. Quickly resolve issues with intuitive workflows, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). WhatsUp Gold's integrated log management provides easy visibility and control of device log data, allowing monitoring, filtering, searching, and alerting on syslogs or Windows logs. Archive logs to comply with regulatory requirements and preserve historical data, all through a user-friendly interface. Streamline network monitoring and issue resolution with WhatsUp Gold, making network management efficient and hassle-free.

Sample Customers

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

Artoni Trasporti, Austin Independent School District, Banca Marche, Burke County North Carolina, Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine, Clayco, Community Integrated Care, Desca, Deutsche Bergbau, Flexi-Van, Gropper, Hamleys, Hammonds Furniture, Knowledge IT, Idras S.P.A., Sibeg, Swann Engineering, Trivium Lindenhof

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