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AppDynamics vs ScienceLogic comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.0
AppDynamics enhances performance, reduces downtime, improves productivity, and boosts customer satisfaction with significant MTTR reduction and cost savings.
Sentiment score
7.4
ScienceLogic users see positive returns, improved incident resolution, reduced downtime, and enhanced system resiliency, although exact ROI figures vary.
The return on investment is fair but often challenged by medium-sized businesses who may question its adequacy.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.1
AppDynamics customer service is praised for responsiveness and expertise, with some improvement needed in communication and response times.
Sentiment score
7.7
ScienceLogic offers reliable, responsive customer service with expert technical support, praised for efficiency and understanding client needs.
Problems with Skylar may require longer wait times due to limited resource expertise.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
AppDynamics scales well for most, despite some challenges with licensing, configuration, and performance limitations in large deployments.
Sentiment score
6.9
ScienceLogic is praised for its scalability and automation, effectively supporting thousands of servers and significant data loads globally.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
5.6
AppDynamics is stable for most users, with minor issues and good support, effective for large-scale environment monitoring.
Sentiment score
7.1
ScienceLogic is praised for high stability and reliability, with effective support, despite minor issues during sync or upgrades.
Stability should relate to whether the platform fails, stops working, or breaks.
 

Room For Improvement

AppDynamics users desire improved UI, mobile compatibility, integration, support, and simpler management, highlighting challenges in analytics and alerts.
ScienceLogic needs improvements in UI, reporting, SNMP support, API expansion, data export, and integration with platforms like Splunk.
While some other companies have easier APIs, using this solution demands significant expertise.
Integrating observability and APM monitoring into the overall portfolio would be beneficial.
 

Setup Cost

AppDynamics' pricing is high and complex, requiring careful budget planning, especially for smaller businesses with limited resources.
ScienceLogic pricing is tiered by device count, starting at $25K, with flexible enterprise-level features despite higher costs.
 

Valuable Features

AppDynamics offers comprehensive performance monitoring with real-time alerts, intuitive dashboards, and code-level diagnostics for enhanced IT operations.
ScienceLogic's platform offers customization, integration, predictive analytics, and agentless monitoring, supporting IT infrastructures like AWS with efficiency.
The real-time feature provides me with insights into what's happening.
It offers over 500 integrations with a wide range of device types, referred to as PowerPacks, which are prebuilt integrations for hundreds, if not thousands, of integration types.
The CMDB update and the automatic CMDB update are valuable.
 

Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
157
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (5th), Mobile APM (2nd), Container Monitoring (3rd)
ScienceLogic
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (7th), Unified Communications Monitoring (1st), Network Monitoring Software (27th), Server Monitoring (12th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (24th), IT Operations Analytics (6th), Cloud Monitoring Software (19th), AIOps (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Lifecycle Management solutions, they serve different purposes. AppDynamics is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 4.6%, down 5.8% compared to last year.
ScienceLogic, on the other hand, focuses on IT Infrastructure Monitoring, holds 1.9% mindshare, up 1.6% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Mahesh Deshpande - PeerSpot reviewer
The transition tracing and user experience are good, but performance degrades past 3,000 or so agents
The Kubernetes cluster agent has not yet matured. That's one area that requires a lot of improvement. You have two options for implementing the Kubernetes agent. One is deployed in DocCloud, but you can't download those images from DocCloud for security reasons at most organizations, so this option isn't that useful. The installation for the second option isn't that user-friendly. Transition tracing for the Kubernetes application is challenging. You have to navigate to a new set of user interfaces in AppDynamics, so that's the pain point. There is an icon you need to click on to get a newer user interface.
GauravSingh4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Great integrations, power flow, and good support
They need a little more self-service. Some of the places where there's still a dependency on defense logic. If those could be eliminated, that would be ideal. They've done a fantastic job eliminating a lot of those dependencies and there's a lot of self-service. However, some of the areas where we could have it connect to, for example, Splunk or ServiceNow, in a self-care version versus having to go back to their engineers, that's an area where they could do a little more. There are still a lot of engineers who get involved versus if it's a little more API-driven and self-served dashboard connections. Doing it the other way would just make life easier for users.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
51%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about ScienceLogic?
The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ScienceLogic?
My company has an enterprise-level contract with ScienceLogic, so it is available to my organization at a good price.
What needs improvement with ScienceLogic?
The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required. The tool is more or less good. The tool needs to improve its APM capabilities.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

AppD, AppDynamics APM
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