AppDynamics

About AppDynamics

Monitor, automate, and analyze every business transaction with the AppDynamics Application Intelligence Platform. One Platform. One Product. 24/7 visibility and management of your entire application environment. SaaS, on-prem, or hybrid deployment options.

Monitor user, application, and infrastructure platforms and technologies including: Android, iOS, Browser, Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, SQL, NoSQL, Servers and Networks.


Key benefits of AppDynamics

AppDynamics delivers the application intelligence you need to deliver the application performance your users demand by:

Collecting data

- Instrumentation: Watch every line of code
- Distributed transaction tracing: Follow the business transaction across all tiers of the application
- Transaction auto-learning engine: Inspect execution code, payload, libraries and methods
- Real-time service discovery: Map architecture topology and service dependencies
- Smart agents: Filter and transfer data to the management server

Processing data

- Real-time stream processing: Process complex metric and event streams
- Time series clustering and analytics: Index and manage time series by auto rolling up/purging/clustering
- Behavioral learning engine. Continuously adjust dynamic baselines
- Unstructured and structured big data indexing: Get a data warehouse for different types of application data
- Event correlation: Correlate complex performance/change/business events

Acquiring knowledge

- Intuitive UI: simple and easy to use for dev, ops and business users
- Dynamic transaction flow maps: visual representation of the application topology
- Multi-dimensional drill down: cross-correlated drill down from anywhere in the UI
- Real-time business metrics (RTBM): real-time correlation of performance metrics and business metrics
- Compare release: performance regression analysis for agile releases
- Custom dashboards: drag-and-drop HTML5 dashboards
- Query language: search language to enable data discovery


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peter
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The WoW moment of AppDy

Reviewed on 12/12/2022

Appdynamics was wonderful and the wow moment in our environment

Appdynamics was wonderful and the wow moment in our environment

Pros

Appdynamics is a great 360 view tool to use for any application environment. I like the application, server and even the network flow monitoring of the application. My best part of the application feature is it drill down capability in determine root cause of an issue.

Cons

The setup is not ease and requires a lot of expertise. I also do not like the the fact that every component is billed or must purchase license to use.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

AppDynamics - why to choose it

Reviewed on 25/05/2022

I was able to keep monitoring the performance of a complex ecosystem. Thanks to the product I have...

I was able to keep monitoring the performance of a complex ecosystem. Thanks to the product I have a clear vision of the full architecture including the communication/flow between different services part of the solution.
With the alert notification, I am able to keep monitoring the performance of the system (I can immediately understand if something is going bad after a delivery for example) and the error. Moreover I can check the status of the servers running the solution.

Pros

The possibility to go into detail in case of error. You can arrive to the line of code having the issue. At the same time, in case of bad performance, you are able to know what was happening at that moment.
I would add also the alert section, it helps you to trigger alarm when it is needed. That may be fantastic for the team managing the operation / support h24. This team may be also helped by the dashboard that the users of AppDyn can create.

Cons

Setup of the Agent - there are other products doing better this part (the concept of OneAgent available for example in Dynatrace).
Setup complex in case of SAP ecosystem.
Real User Monitoring - the products specialized on this topic (doing only this) are better than AppDynamics. At the same time, with AppDyn you can have the monitoring end to end (from the final users to the specific server)

Alternatives Considered

Dynatrace and New Relic

Reasons for Switching to AppDynamics

The set of features leads the decision. This was the main driver, AppDynamics is one of the best solutions in the market.
Earl
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

APM that works for a premium

Reviewed on 16/11/2023

It does what it does some things well others not so - I particularly do not like ONLY email...

It does what it does some things well others not so - I particularly do not like ONLY email notification

Pros

Product is easy to interface with - we have numerous monitors DB, Java, .Net and they work well

Cons

Setup and configuration are sometimes a pain and usually involves support

Daniel
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
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Reviewed on 08/06/2016

Satish
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

One of the best Application performance monitoring tools

Reviewed on 05/05/2020

Awesome product to analyse transactions

Awesome product to analyse transactions

Pros

Easy to drill down to ground zero, helps in faster triage of transaction failures.

Cons

A little complex for novice users. Too many steps to follow

Alternatives Considered

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AppDynamics FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for AppDynamics.

AppDynamics offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$3,300.00/year
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Starting with a 15-day free trial, all AppDynamics product modules are available in AppDynamics Lite – Free Forever, and AppDynamics Pro Editions

AppDynamics has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

AppDynamics supports the following languages:

English

AppDynamics supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

We do not have any information about what integrations AppDynamics has

AppDynamics offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep)

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