We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and ThousandEyes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions."
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"It is a stable solution."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"It could do with more than one data centre/multiple AWS accounts in a pane of glass. Also, improved scalability to large environments would be helpful."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"It's an expensive solution."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and ManageEngine Applications Manager, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Fortinet FortiSIEM.
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