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Pros

Strong Community Support: Users have consistently praised the strong community support offered by AppDynamics, even for non-premium members. They find it effective for resolving issues and seeking assistance. Many users have mentioned that the active community forums and resources provided valuable insights and solutions to their queries.

Quality Documentation: Reviewers have appreciated the high quality of documentation provided for each version of AppDynamics. They recommend checking the documentation for new features and bug fixes before implementation. Several users have specifically noted that the detailed documentation has helped them navigate through updates smoothly and avoid potential issues.

Convenient Trial Option: Customers have highlighted the convenience of the trial option in AppDynamics, which allows running the controller in the cloud without manual installation. This simplifies the process and eliminates the need to manage port numbers for communication. Numerous users have expressed how beneficial this trial option was in understanding the platform's capabilities before making a full commitment.

Splunk AppDynamics Reviews

77 Reviews

AppDynamics and its perks

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AppDynamics was used to perform observability in over all infrastructure and service monitoring setting. the business problem it will address includes giving over all or holistic view of systems from infra Db and application side.

Pros

  • Infra Monitoring
  • DB monitoring
  • App monitoring
  • Correlations

Cons

  • AI enablement
  • RCA support

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited for Monitoring all the resources Lacks giving correlation and Suggestion for improvement
AA
Alazar Adefris
Senior System Admin in Information Technology at Awash (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk AppDynamics
3 years of experience
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Wonderful APM Tool!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using the application performance management tool from last 2 years. It is really helpful for us to monitoring the application as well as infrastructure. It detects the issues related to the performance and immediately alert us to fix the things on time or on priority. It has AI/ML capabilities that resolves issue quickly and efficiently. It optimize the performance and efficiency of the application.

Pros

  • AI capabilities.
  • Detects the issues fastly.
  • Improves operational efficiency.
  • Boost performance of the application.

Cons

  • It is very high cost, needs to be pocket friendly.
  • Initial setup is complex for new user.
  • Less no of integrations.

Likelihood to Recommend

AppDynamics always suggest to my colleague because it is wonderful for monitoring the application across the globe. It detects the bugs using the inbuilt AI capabilities. It ensures to deliver superior customer experience. It reduce cost as well as human efforts. It optimize the micro services for better performance. I am loving this.
KS
Kanika Sharma
Technical Specialist in Information Technology at GlobalLogic (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk AppDynamics
2 years of experience
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It works!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Application Monitoring, AppDynamics covers all middleware application Monitoring and we work with our devs to onboard AppDynamics to give them what they need. It just works.

Pros

  • Flow maps
  • DB transaction monitoring
  • User Experience monitoring

Cons

  • Dark mode needed
  • Acknowledge alerts
  • Better dashboarding

Likelihood to Recommend

Wide usage
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk AppDynamics
6 years of experience

AppDynamics review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using AppDynamics as APM (Application Performance Monitoring). We are taking an event and finding the root cause of the problems.

Pros

  • APM Overall dashboard
  • Root cause

Cons

  • AI function

Likelihood to Recommend

I like AppDynamics and I recommend it
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Engineering (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk AppDynamics
2 years of experience

Finding Root Causes and restoring SLA

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We had little visibility into newly built critical government service that was really hungry for resources.

Pros

  • Observed processes
  • Could visualize the sequence
  • Help with Root Cause Analysis

Cons

  • Ebf
  • Agentless

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited for analysis of complex applications and worked very well with multi tier architectures.
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk AppDynamics
4 years of experience

AppDynamics for APP monitoring - The best

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use AppDynamics for app monitoring. It addresses several challenges. Centralised dashboard for all monitoring across multiple operational teams.

Pros

  • Health check dashboard
  • App performance
  • Node monitoring

Cons

  • More visualisation like Graffana

Likelihood to Recommend

It is simple to use and does the exact functions as needed for operational teams.
GD
Ganesh Doddi
Infrastructure Designer in Information Technology at Bupa (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk AppDynamics
3 years of experience

your go to tool for better app monitoring

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AppDynamics plays a vital part of our strategy to ensure high application performance, reliability and positive user experience to generate revenue as much as we can. we use app dynamics primarily for APM (application performance management). it helps in business analytics to correspond application performance data with business outcomes, allow us to understand how application performance impacts our user experience and revenue. Also we are scaling our organization to grow, we think to expand use of app dynamics to include more applications and heavy integration with our monitoring tools.

Pros

  • The end-user monitoring captures real user interactions, providing insights into how users experience the application.
  • it supports mobile application performance monitoring and enables team to track app load times, crashes and user sessions on mobile devices
  • it offers robust support options including detailed documentation and professional services. it provides user experiences to highlight the responsiveness of the support team in resolving issues and enhance overall user satisfaction

Cons

  • we can improve its user interface; due to this, some user find it overwhelming for its complexity
  • Sometimes its real time data processing can lag during peak usage times.
  • Users sometimes need more comprehensive training, such as webinars and certification programs, etc.

Likelihood to Recommend

In our scenario we can utilize AppDynamics to ensure that applications comply with performance standards and regulatory requirements. it helps us in audit and compliance check. we can also track performance across multiple services and identify latency issues ensure that the application runs smoothly and meets regulatory compliance. I personally rarely find it less appropriate but the only place I want it improving is when during the high traffic events during load testing to understand how the application performs under stress and identify potential failure points before the events.
KB
Keshav Baisla
Team Lead in Information Technology at Ibridgetechsoft (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk AppDynamics
2 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

AppDynamics Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use AppDynamics primarily for application performance monitoring. It helps us Monitor application performance metrics in real time, quickly identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, track the performance of specific business transactions, plan for scalability and optimize resource allocation, and monitor user experience across different devices and platforms.

Likelihood to Recommend

AppDynamics is well-suited for monitoring
JK
Jeetu Kumar
ERP Executive in Engineering at Yuto Printing And packaging India pvt ltd (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk AppDynamics
5 years of experience
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AppDynamics Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AppDynamics flow maps are fantastic. I enjoy AppDynamics board because it displays data from the applications performance matrix,which helps me realize whether there is a technical problem. AppDynamics assists us in prioritizing the answer to the problem. AppDynamics continuously posts the server and database status by sending alerts, and prepared the reports or us. It automatically discovers .net, php, python, and node.js applications it automatically detects customer requests like checking account balances and it traces the transactions.

Pros

  • Very convenient with setting alerts on any abnormality with our servers.
  • The user can set on which resources to send alerts.
  • Its providing the all the metrics to monitor. Easily we can install it in client software.

Cons

  • Business transaction tracking is little bit slow
  • Need to add more troubleshooting options.

Likelihood to Recommend

It helped a lot to serve the most vital goal, thus I would definitely suggest it to other and colleague, AppDynamics provides us with a unified picture that removes several hurdles to resolving crucial issues. It is a fantastic solution that allow you to quickly troubleshoot application performance and monitoring issues that would otherwise need a lot of time and efforts.
DC
Deepanshi Choudhary
Dot net developer in Information Technology at MNJ Software (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Splunk AppDynamics
1 year of experience
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Drastically reduce time troubleshooting with AppDynamics

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use AppDynamics to monitor our applications and how they perform given a complex on prem infrastructure to ensure high quality delivery of business applications.

Pros

  • Get to the point within minutes
  • Reduce drastically troubleshooting
  • Return understandable data also for executives

Cons

  • Pricing
  • Closer on prem to cloud feature alignment
  • Stronger integration with/into intersight

Likelihood to Recommend

Monitor internal applications in order to reduce drastically operations, troubleshooting and to go straight to the issue. Deliver service oriented reports to executives
VU
Verified User
Account Manager in Sales (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
Splunk AppDynamics
2 years of experience