We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and AppDynamics based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is the recommended choice over AppDynamics due to its cost-effectiveness, seamless integration with Microsoft technologies, and customizable out-of-the-box functionalities. AppDynamics, while offering various valuable features, is pricey, has a steep learning curve, and lacks a satisfactory end-user experience. Azure Monitor is praised for its application insights, troubleshooting capabilities, ease of configuration and maintenance, and proactive infrastructure information, resulting in a positive ROI.
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"Technical support is helpful."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement...It is a very stable solution."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"You can scale the product."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"Needs more integration with applications suites, like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"More native support for other hardware is needed because having to install various extensions and perform extra setup for different devices is really challenging, and not as easy or straightforward as it is in other products."
"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."
"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."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Instana Dynamic APM, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). See our AppDynamics vs. Azure Monitor report.
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