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Senior Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
A good tool for application monitoring that is easy to configure, but can have stability issues
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature in this solution, for our business, is the clear way of projecting the connections between the database and the traffic inflow. This is very helpful when troubleshooting issues."
- "This product has an issue with initial lag upon opening that we would like to see improved."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature in this solution, for our business, is the clear way of projecting the connections between the database and the traffic inflow. This is very helpful when troubleshooting issues.
We have also found that including additional features into this solution is straightforward and easy to do.
What needs improvement?
This product has an issue with initial lag upon opening that we would like to see improved.
We would also like the capability to open multiple sessions of this product in a browser at the same time.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been working with this solution for two to three years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have found the stability of this product to be an occasional issue during our time working with it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have found this to be a scalable solution.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support team are quick, and respond immediately when we have raised issues. We have found them to be very knowledgeable whenever we have contacted them.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of this solution was fairly easy.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

Associate Consultant at Tata Consultancy
Provides visibility to all query times but technical support can take too long to resolve issues
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that we can see all query times. If a particular query is taking too much time, we can alert it."
- "The day-to-day activities should be less complicated so that anyone can manage it."
What is our primary use case?
I am the coordinator of the implementation of AppDynamics in our customers' companies.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that we can see all query times. If a particular query is taking too much time, we can alert it.
For example, for a particular transaction, if it is related to the database we know that the slowness is coming from the database and can see the relevant details. In the application flow map, we are able to see that the flow is going to the database and how much time it is taking. We can understand if the database is responsible for the slowness or not. This also enables us to create a ticket.
What needs improvement?
AppDyanmics requires better technical people to support the solution. It is not as simple as just implementing and walking away. You need someone to maintain the solution. The day-to-day activities should be less complicated so that anyone can manage them. The administration should not be an overhead.
For how long have I used the solution?
Our organization has been working with AppDynamics for more than six months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
AppDynamics Database Monitoring is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
Customer service and support are okay. They are willing to help and were able to solve our concerns. However, some of the issues we raised took a long time to get the solution. Some issues took several months to resolve.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of AppDynamics Database Monitoring is neither easy nor complex. Our database server is set up on-premise, so we needed to configure a few parameters. Once the database agent part is complete, then it is easy. We just needed to add the database one by one.
What about the implementation team?
We worked very closely with AppDyanmics through the implementation. They helped us with the configuration. By working with them, we didn't face many technical glitches.
The entire implementation, not only for the database, took three months.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The license for AppDynamics is procured by our customers.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Prior to implementing AppDynamics, we did evaluate New Relic and Instana.
What other advice do I have?
If you are talking only from the database perspective, I would recommend AppDyanmics Database. It is very helpful because it gives you more insight.
Overall, I would rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring a seven out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Technical Analyst at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Great dashboarding but needs better support for microservices architecture
Pros and Cons
- "AppDynamics Database Monitoring's dashboarding is its best feature."
- "AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture."
What is our primary use case?
I use AppDynamics Database Monitoring to monitor application performance.
What is most valuable?
AppDynamics Database Monitoring's dashboarding is its best feature.
What needs improvement?
AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with AppDynamics Database Monitoring for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
AppDynamics Database Monitoring is less stable than Dynatrace.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
AppDynamics Database Monitoring is scalable.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy, and deployment took around two days.
What about the implementation team?
We used an in-house team.
What was our ROI?
AppDynamics Database Monitoring is widely used, so it's given us some ROI.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend choosing Dynatrace over AppDynamics Database Monitoring as it's easier to use. I would rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
Senior Database Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
High performance, stable, and real-time evaluations
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring are you can configure the performance and see in real-time what is exactly happening with the applications. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
- "AppDynamics Database Monitoring could improve the price of the solution, it is costly."
What is our primary use case?
We are using AppDynamics Database Monitoring is used as a performance monitoring tool for any application.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring are you can configure the performance and see in real-time what is exactly happening with the applications. Additionally, the dashboards are good.
What needs improvement?
AppDynamics Database Monitoring could improve the price of the solution, it is costly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using AppDynamics Database Monitoring for approximately four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
AppDynamics Database Monitoring is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have approximately 30 to 40 end-users using AppDynamics Database Monitoring. We do not have plans to increase the number of end-users.
How are customer service and support?
I have not contacted the support from AppDynamics Database Monitoring.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We have purchased a few licenses for AppDynamics Database Monitoring and the price is high.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others is that AppDynamics Database Monitoring is a very good monitoring tool. It would be a good choice.
I rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Straightforward, performs well, and is easy to install
Pros and Cons
- "AppDynamics is a good tool that offers excellent out-of-the-box dashboards and application topology."
- "I believe they need to increase their level of visibility in the infrastructure, particularly in the infrastructure monitoring section, which currently lacks visibility."
What is our primary use case?
Because AppDynamics sells this as end-to-end visibility, there are no use cases in the databases. Use case applied to AppDynamics Brower Real-User Monitoring can be applied here as well. If the user experiences latency on its request, it's most likely because the database is effectively queuing the request. The same scenarios can apply.
What is most valuable?
The performance of AppDynamics Database Monitoring is good, I have not had any complaints.
AppDynamics Database Monitoring is straightforward, there is not a lot to it, it either monitors or it doesn't.
What needs improvement?
One of the key features that are missing is the ability to manage users centrally, which is a real pain when it does not happen. That is a feature that their main competitor has had for quite some time. I'm surprised they don't have it already.
I believe they need to increase their level of visibility in the infrastructure, particularly in the infrastructure monitoring section, which currently lacks visibility.
The license model is a bit complex. They should make it a little bit easier, which I believe they will do in the next quarter, or in the next two quarters. I also dislike it because it is based on CPU, which will increase the cost of deployment and licensing. They currently have a complex model and charge on a per-node basis. They plan to change this in the future to make it less complicated, but it will be more expensive because it will be done on a CPU basis rather than a node basis. And this is not good. I deducted one point for that.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been providing AppDynamics Database Monitoring for six years.
It is deployed both on the cloud, and on-premises.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of AppDynamics Database Monitoring is fine.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward.
The time it takes to deploy an agent varies depending on the customer and the application, but it can take up to 15 minutes.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The licensing scheme is very complex. They need to make it easier.
What other advice do I have?
AppDynamics is a good tool that offers excellent out-of-the-box dashboards and application topology. Even for their competitors, their current technology is unrivaled in these two areas.
I would rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Implementer
Senior Solutions Consultant at VNQ Systems
Provides a single pane of glass to see where you need to focus, and the information is clearly visible and easy to navigate
Pros and Cons
- "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."
- "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."
What is our primary use case?
We're a partner and reseller for AppDynamics. We had a bank that we had to monitor from start to finish. We did the bank, and I then moved on to another product, but one of my mates is still busy working with AppDynamics.
Most of it was on-prem. We did some product testing on the cloud, but the client at that stage didn't have much on the cloud. Connecting to a cloud was quite simple as well.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
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.
On the dashboarding side, it's very difficult to do dashboards on the database portion because they don't let you include a lot of the elements in dashboards. They should give a bit more functionality and add more views from the database side. Other than that, all the clients I've worked with are very happy with it. It had everything they needed. No one had any complaints. Only on the application portion, do people get very confused if they're not tech-savvy, but on the database side, you usually work with tech-savvy people. So, the database and the elements are great.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution since 2018 or so. It has been four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
If you got the on-prem resource, it's very easy to scale out. If you have the full server resources that you need, scalability is very easy.
In terms of its usage, within the bank, its adoption was very difficult. People didn't adopt it very well, but in one of the telecoms, the adoption rate was very good. They had a team of two to three people managing close to 150 users. It was very straightforward to manage.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have worked with an IBM solution previously. The main pro of AppDynamics Database Monitoring is user-friendliness. It was very easy to click around and say to the clients that this is what they need. It was all clearly visible and easy to navigate.
How was the initial setup?
On the database side, it was very straightforward. I don't have a lot of database experience, but installing it on them was straightforward. It just takes the information from the sites, manipulates it, runs it as a query, creates the user, and gives it permissions. It is very easy. The only one I struggled with was the IBM Db2 because the bank had very strict permissions to get around, and that wasn't as easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It could be a bit lower, but looking at the scalability, functionality, and other things, you can understand why AppDynamics is so expensive as compared to some of the cheaper products that don't have that full single pane of glass they've got. Dynatrace has got three different elements that you need to log into just to get a full view, which is not so good, and because of that, it is a bit cheaper.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate it a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Technical Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Quick installation, good interface, and user-friendly
Pros and Cons
- "I have found some of the valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring to be once the installation is complete, you are able to quickly start receiving metrics, which is great. The user interface is also very user-friendly."
- "I have found it sometimes a bit difficult to trace the transaction all the way through to the application. I'm not sure if that problem is on the database side or on the application side, but that would be something that I would like to be improved. The traceability from the application to the database, sometimes, is a bit of a challenge. If you're using AppDynamics, with the Java agent, for instance, you need to be able to trace it through."
What is our primary use case?
We are currently using AppDynamics Database Monitoring on-premise but we are migrating to the cloud.
We are using AppDynamics Database Monitoring to understand where the long queries are, and how your applications are performing against the database. You can actually see whether it's a database issue or if it's an application issue. Additionally, you can run explain plans against it, to see which queries need to be optimized.
What is most valuable?
I have found some of the valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring to be once the installation is complete, you are able to quickly start receiving metrics, which is great. The user interface is also very user-friendly.
What needs improvement?
I have found it sometimes a bit difficult to trace the transaction all the way through to the application. I'm not sure if that problem is on the database side or on the application side, but that would be something that I would like to be improved. The traceability from the application to the database, sometimes, is a bit of a challenge. If you're using AppDynamics, with the Java agent, for instance, you need to be able to trace it through.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using AppDynamics Database Monitoring for approximately six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is highly stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have more than 100 people using the solution in my organization. We have plans to increase the usage of the solution in the future.
How was the initial setup?
The installation is easy. It would take about an hour and a half maximum to do the installation because you need connectivity to the database itself. It was more a connectivity problem than it was an actual APM installation issue.
What about the implementation team?
I am able to do the installation myself.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
There is an annual cost for the use of this solution.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution to others.
I rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Senior Performance Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Fast and stable monitoring for effective issue resolution but needs networking monitoring functionality
Pros and Cons
- "The product is easy to install, it took about half an hour. The use and the configurations are simple as well."
- "The networking monitor function could be better, we are not getting many details from it."
What is our primary use case?
We use the product for enterprise-level monitoring, everything from application to database monitoring. The product will tell you everything. It will show you at the code level where the issue is. For example, the solution will analyze a database and it will tell you which of the CPUs are taking more time to execute, showing exactly where the issue is.
How has it helped my organization?
It has allowed us to find issues fast and resolve them.
What needs improvement?
It would be helpful to have a dashboard and artificial intelligence for error detection and correlation for future releases.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable product in my experience.
How are customer service and technical support?
Their support is really good.
How was the initial setup?
The setup was straightforward. It is easy to install, it took about half an hour.
What about the implementation team?
We deployed the solution ourselves. We used one technical person to analyze the solution for deployment but then we did not need any technical assistance afterwards, it is pretty straight forward to understand.
What was our ROI?
The networking monitor function could be better, we are not getting many details from it.
What other advice do I have?
It is easy to use and not difficult to configure. I would definitely recommend the solution, I have been working with it for the last five to six years. It's a really good product.
I rate AppDynamics Database Monitoring a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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