AppDynamics vs Paessler GmbH

AppDynamics, Inc. is an American privately held application performance management and IT Operations Analytics ITOA company based in San Francisco, CA. This market is known as Application Intelligence. The company focuses on managing the performance and availability of applications across cloud computing environments as well as inside the data center. Aside from the core APM functionality AppDynamics Unified Monitoring solution provides an application-centric, integrated monitoring platform that traces and monitors every user interaction from end-user client to application code to third-party services/databases and supporting infrastructure. Unlike other unified monitoring solutions AppDynamics is one integrated platform built from the ground up for application monitoring across end-user, application, DB, and infrastructure. One modern UI, consistent data model for monitoring across distributed environment, one datastore architecture, and one flexible and easy installation.

Paessler AG develops and sells network management and network monitoring software. The company was founded by CEO Dirk Paessler in 1997 and offers freeware and commercial software for system administrators. In 2014 Paessler AG grew sales by 40 percent in the US and Canada, with worldwide sales growing 32 percent. The reseller rate in the US and Canada grew 116 percent due to 64 new registered partners.