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BMC TrueSight App Visibility Manager [EOL] vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

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BMC TrueSight App Visibilit...
Average Rating
5.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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Splunk AppDynamics
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
278
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (4th), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

SR
Vice President - Operations & Client Support at Scicom Infrastructure Services
It has the ability to provide run-time production problem resolution, but while the instrumentation is powerful, it can overwhelm the system and cause instability.
Extremely powerful drill down capability across .Net/Windows and Java based applications Ability to record application execution from user, system and code levels Full video and client level capture and recording of user sessions Extremely flexible deployment including connected mode (agent connects to controller) or standalone agent recording. The solution also provides the ability to allow clients to navigate to a url and execute the recording workflow using a "light agent approach" Ability to provide diagnostics with the same agent for JVM/IIS tier in addition to deep granularity and visibility at OS level
Shamim Alsharif - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Engineer at TANIM CONSULTING, LLC
Real-time monitoring has improved our banking API performance and supports detailed business transaction analysis
The real-time monitoring is what we can see for anything that is needed in terms of CPU, memory, or the connections or the sessions related. It's real-time monitoring of performance of each of the components, which is what we need and use all the time. It's highly effective, I would say. Infrastructure visibility, transaction monitoring, to check the actual user experience in terms of the response time, MRT and all those things. We do the component monitoring like the API performance and the connections and all those things, but we also do the business process monitoring and business transaction monitoring.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Provided rapid ability to triage and diagnose customer production environments- exercises that normally would take weeks could be accomplished in hours with AppSight"
"Because of AppDynamics, we came to know where the bottlenecks are in the infrastructure by using the system agent, as well as the JVM agent."
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"The real user monitoring and digital experience monitoring effectively track actual user experience with the applications, including page loading, interaction time for both desktop and mobile applications."
"The proactive monitoring from AppDynamics definitely helps."
"You have a live view of what happens when something goes wrong on the production or support side. You don't have to scramble and do guesswork. We can identify the query that creates the bottleneck or slows the performance of the database system. It can give you points on how to debug and fix the system."
"Application Analytics reduces the average time it takes to repair performance problems and improves cooperation between different IT departments."
"The transaction snapshots help me find the root cause of the problem."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
 

Cons

"Customer Service: Currently, the service levels offered by BMC for this solution are very poor."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"AppDynamics should add more features to identify in case if there is some thread waiting for something."
"The application end of AppDynamics Database Monitoring needs to improve by checking which applications consume licenses."
"Every upgrade is a challenge. A big enterprise cannot handle that many releases like that."
"If you design a very big business application, visibility will suffer due to a large number of tiers and transactions."
"The granularity of historic data could be improved."
"I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"If one is expensive and ten is low price, I rate the product price as seven out of ten."
"AppDynamics does not usually do monthly payments. They do it on an annual basis, at the very least."
"AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring does have licensing cost associated with it."
"There is a license needed to use the solution and it is expensive. The licensing model needs to improve."
"You are required to purchase licenses whether you use it or not. It is not pay-as-you-use."
"The license fee for Application Analytics is in the range of 2.5 million over three years, with extra fees for service contingencies."
"The solution has a high cost."
"I rate AppDynamics Mobile Real-User Monitoring's pricing as seven out of ten. Mobile monitoring is paid based on the number of instances utilizing the mobile monitoring service, which increases as the scale grows. Consequently, your mobile user count can proportionally surpass all other applications."
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Financial Services Firm
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Outsourcing Company
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Construction Company
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Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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