Splunk AppDynamics Reviews

We use it to monitor the load testing environment.

It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them.

• Code profiling
• Monitoring

The cost is prohibitive.

It is an excellent product for application performance monitoring.

No visibility from application code-level failures: It used to take a lot of effort, but after we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues.

Code-level deep dive analysis and automated application flow service models: Companies maintaining strict compliance such as PCI, etc., can easily use AppDynamics without any restrictions, because it has a completely web-based interface and there is no client.

Use of BCI (Byte Code Instrumentation) is also a key feature that helps AppDynamics to fetch maximum information via Java agents without consuming a lot resources on the application servers.

In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing. Including network monitoring would provide an end-to-end correlated view of all factors in a single console view.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support is excellent.

Our Customers previously used APM solutions like DynaTrace, TMART, New Relic, etc.

Initial setup was straightforward. Just install the agent; it will discover all of the relationships and communicate with each and every component of the running application.

We evaluated almost all other similar products, as per the Gartner report. AppDynamics is the best fit as an Application Performance Management solution.

Just go for it.

AppDynamics is a complete tool for server and usability monitoring.

I've been working with AppDynamics for the past two years.

Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results.

AppDynamics is scalable.

AppDynamics technical support is good.

AppDynamics is easy to use overall, but the installation part is a battle. Installation and configuration can be very tough. An average user without specialized knowledge can't do this. You need to have DevOps and QA teams handle it. During installation, a lot of customers get stuck trying to track the database or the API part, and they have to contact customer support.

AppDynamics is a bit costly for an APM tool. The cheapest is New Relic. 
AppDynamics and Dynatrace are about the same. 

I also use Dynatrace with some of my customers' companies. It's a much better product than AppDynamics in terms of features and ease of installation. 

I rate AppDynamics five out of 10. 

We like being able to actually see how long it actually took. You can look at the back end, and you know how long the server thinks it took, but you really don't know how long to render. We've caught a lot of problems with ads, third-party content and other things, where we were serving up the page in a normal amount of time, but it wasn't rendering right and it was broken for our users. Now we have insight into that. We can raise the alarm, and try to fix it.

We've had a lot of issues with third-party ads. We were able to get them to clean up their act after we could show them the data that it was broken.

Instead of guessing, we have real data. That's really improved. Instead of saying, "Hey, everybody fire up your browser and see if we can reproduce this issue," we can just look. That's really been helpful.

Things mostly work well. I would think maybe more integration; pull things together more; integrate this analytics with this dashboard, with that analytics; and so on. Just kind of tie everything in one spot.

I have not encountered any stability or scalability issues. I'm not sure how many page views we're doing at this point, but we haven't had any issues with it, and it's a lot. It's a lot of page views. I know it is.

We use technical support from time to time; nothing serious, just some questions; things like that. They've always been really responsive; definitely quick in getting you the answer in a timely manner.

I think they also looked at Dynatrace. I guess I know how that went, because here we are, with AppDynamics.

In general, when I’m selecting a vendor to work with, the most important thing I look for is the ability to get the job done and actually perform.

We also use AppDynamics APM, and we use the database monitoring a little bit. We’re definitely happy with them.

The most valuable features are:

• Automatic flow maps to visualize application environment
• Snapshots of method-level execution timing
• Automatic baselines of all metrics
• Native mobile agent

The product has improved our understanding of system performance. It has given us more time to find and fix problems.

This product could be improved by having a cross-application flow that can split the monitored systems into smaller business applications. I would like to see more flexible custom dashboards.

We have used this solution for four years.

The earlier version of the .NET agent had some problems with stability and performance, but I found no stability issues with the current version.

If you design a very big business application, visibility will suffer due to a large number of tiers and transactions.

The technical support was one of the absolute best in the industry. Tickets are promptly processed and escalated. There was no terrible first level support to 'get through' before getting to the right level. I was able to get the level of support I needed right away.
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I had a brief experience with Dynatrace at another company.

It was very simple to install the controller and install some of the agents with default settings.

Get the full scope of the price including analytics, real-user monitoring (RUM) and anything that might be relevant from the start. You might get a worse price when adding licenses in the middle of a licensing period since you are already locked in.

We evaluated Dynatrace before we chose this product.

Take some time to train technicians and development personal who will use the tool. Make sure you design the correct Business Applications and Business Transactions.

In a few clicks, we are able to identify the root cause of performance issues, without any prior knowledge of the application structure nor its components. And this was true for both Java and .NET.

• Flowmap
• Snapshots
• End-user monitoring (web and mobile)

• Analytics
• SQL statement monitoring

I have not encountered any stability issues so far.

I have not encountered any scalability issues so far.

Technical support is excellent.

We used to use CA APM. We found AppDynamics much more user friendly, easy to spot performance issues, and great unified end-to-end monitoring capabilities.

Initial setup was easy and straightforward.

The product’s licencing policy is competitive. However, properly identify and size your needs to get the best rate.

We also evaluated CA APM, Dynatrace and New Relic.

Properly identify your needs, and allocate the required resources. Otherwise, you might face some scalability issues.

For customer journey monitoring: Stitch together complex journeys involving the entire ecosystem (internal through external IT) and multiple stakeholders.

Has helped us to increase customer acquisitions and reduce revenue leakage in the following:

• Conversion rates
• Average revenue per user
• Customer acquisition costs
• Rate of customer churn
• Recurring or incremental revenue
• Renewals and/or subscriptions.

End user experience monitoring, which includes:

• Uptime (availability)
• App response time
• Database response time
• Percentage of transaction time spent in database
• Resource utilization
• Database query times.

Areas which could be improved:

• Integrated dashboard for user
• Application
• Infrastructure
• Network layers.

There also needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings.

Deep dive monitoring: It automatically instruments slow performing code components. It facilitates deep-dive component monitoring through deep on-demand diagnostics.

Creation of dashboards and reports: It provides creation of reports by adding standard graph and widgets. It stores all metrics into a database that can be used to drive analytics.

Business transaction tracing: It is very good in usability and tool navigation. The navigation is oriented towards business transactions which makes it extreme user friendly. The end user can navigate from business transactions and quickly navigate to the performance issues in those transactions.

Simple architecture: Agents and a centralised console.

It helps client in finding the detailed errors and exactly which user is facing the same.

It does not support network monitoring, which should be included.

I have used it for six months.

It requires a huge amount of disk memory because of which I was unable to install it earlier on the machine.

Technical support is 5/10.

I have used CA Wily and Dynatrace. Both are good, but this is better in providing solutions.

I have implemented it through a vendor team.

It takes far less time to implement than any other APM tools. The ease of using the tool further reduces the overall implementation time.