Knowing which tables on the database were working the most was valuable. It helped the client understand where they need to focus. They streamlined a lot of their queries and brought the resource usage down. It helped them to find long-running queries. They rewrote them completely so that they don't take as long and the application performs better.
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The feature that is most valuable to us is the snapshot feature. It allows us to get a snapshot of different SQL scripts that are being executed simultaneously and we can identify everything we need on them.
Senior IT Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 22, 2019
The solution is great for database monitoring. You don't have to install an agent on the database. You just install the server to a database agent. It's a good product for some database administration if you don't want to install an agent on the database for security.
The synthetic scripting for end-user monitoring could be a little bit broader. Instead of using just Python, they can include a few other languages so that not everyone has to jump on the bandwagon for Python and do Selenium scripting. They can open up that a bit to make it simpler for people to do the scripting.
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Consultant APM et Performance with 10,001+ employees
Feb 26, 2020
An improvement could be if the monitoring was able to be summarized into something more clear and simple for people who don't have the technical skills on the database side.
Head of IT Operations at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Jul 30, 2019
Based on the user experience feedback that we have had, I think that the most important thing to improve is the availability of the SaaS, the cloud environment.
Senior IT Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 22, 2019
The solution should add some monitoring similar to Oracle monitoring tools for databases. It has a lot of features to monitor SQL queries, and make some recommendation to resolve it. AppDynamics is just monitoring for delays and doesn't provide any recommendations for that. It's a deficiency.
AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be a better product if it could support new technology, such as cloud technology. Even Dynatrace lacks support for newer technologies.
