We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prometheus is praised for its flexibility, integration capabilities, and affordability as an open-source solution. AppDynamics, on the other hand, is considered expensive, has a high learning curve, and poor end-user experience. Although it offers valuable features, its complex infrastructure is a drawback. Prometheus, however, is reliable, has a fast data storage system, and is highly valued for its flexibility and integration capabilities, making it thew preferred solution.
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."
"From the performance management side, I like everything from business transaction work to tracking. On the database side, we can get a lot of insights from the database. On the server monitoring side, it helped us a lot to find out some of the issues on the VM side because VMs were creating a little trouble for us."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"They need to improve the consolidation of agents for the agent's installation process."
"More native support for other hardware is needed because having to install various extensions and perform extra setup for different devices is really challenging, and not as easy or straightforward as it is in other products."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"This solution is expensive."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"Its stability could be even better."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Apache SkyWalking. See our AppDynamics vs. Prometheus report.
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