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We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Server Monitoring and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed AppDynamics Server Monitoring vs. WhatsUp Gold Report (Updated: March 2024).
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The product has the ability to drill down to the errors whenever we have issues.""The auto-discovery of the logs is the most valuable feature. It requires minimal configuration, we just need to set up on once and it automatically detects through the code.""What I like most about AppDynamics Server Monitoring is that it's easy to manipulate and easy to implement. All solutions have the same features, but what sets AppDynamics Server Monitoring apart is that it's really quick to implement. AppDynamics Server Monitoring has a great interface. As a developer, it doesn't matter whether it's SolarWinds, Dynatrace, or any APM you're using, but it would matter to the customer. A product must be easy to manipulate or use, for example, AppDynamics Server Monitoring, for the customer, but for developers like my team, there's no pressure, even if a solution requires coding.""This solution gives us quite good insights that we might otherwise overlook, or it might take a really long time to debug those issues.""It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I don't see any problems in the solution...The solution's technical support was good.""We can view the server activities, including issues in the process, with a single click.""The platform is reliable in identifying the core system issues.""The product provides a nice end-user experience."

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"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business.""The product is reasonably priced.""The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health.""The installation and configuration process are easy.""The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit.""I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well.""The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface.""The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."

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Cons
"The solution has performance issues after we deploy the agent.""An area for improvement in AppDynamics Server Monitoring is integration; in particular, it needs a better way to integrate with custom applications such as Siebel CRM. Right now, it's challenging to integrate AppDynamics Server Monitoring with Siebel CRM because it sometimes gives an error and cannot integrate properly.""If we consider the implementation of alternative solutions, such as Dynatrace, there is a notable difference in the approach to agent-based service monitoring. For instance, Dynatrace employs a single-agent solution, which can pose security concerns. When installing Dynatrace, granting the agent ld pro payload rights is a requirement. In contrast, our solution ensures a more secure approach by not requiring root and administration access. While we currently utilize an agent-based solution, there may be a shift in the next one or two years, possibly with the adoption of Open Telemetry. It's anticipated that many APM vendors, including Dynatrace, may alter their structure or strategy for implementation. However, as of now, the trend is towards an increasing number of implementations daily.""I would like the ability to choose from some pre-defined dashboards and reports because as it is now, you have to define them separately for each implementation.""I could not find a user-friendly interface for querying, and analytics sometimes gives the wrong results...I feel that analytics could have been better in searching and running the analytical queries.""Things are being done differently in the industry now, and many of these problems are being solved with cloud databases.""AppDynamics Server Monitoring has room for improvement in terms of pricing. If the price could be cheaper, it would be great for both the customer and the integrator. What I'd like to see in the next release of AppDynamics Server Monitoring is a better dashboard for the customer. The dashboard should be more interactive.""The one thing that I find it difficult in using AppDynamics is, for any new user, it's not easy for him or her to configure the transactions in AppDynamics because the UI is pretty complex. The configuration is pretty complex for a new, fresh user. They can make the UI simpler, that'll be very helpful for anyone to configure their website in AppDynamics."

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"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult.""We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology.""The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system.""The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product.""Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring.""I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring.""One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in.""Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "My understanding is that the price of this solution is quite high, compared to other products."
  • "The pricing for AppDynamics Server Monitoring in Africa and the Middle East is too expensive, so it's very hard to sell it to customers. If there could be different pricing or package for the region, that would be great. My company pays for the license of AppDynamics Server Monitoring on a per-agent, per-server basis. It's $700 to $1000 per server, and it's paid annually. My company is on a subscription model for the solution. On a scale of one to five, where one is expensive and five is cheap, my rating for the price of AppDynamics Server Monitoring is a two."
  • "The solution has a high cost."
  • "AppDynamics Server Monitoring is a very expensive product, but if you negotiate well, you get value for money...My company used to make early payments toward the licensing costs of the solution, but now my company has opted for a different licensing model."
  • "The tool is expensive."
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  • "Pricing is reasonable compared to other products."
  • "I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees."
  • "The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive."
  • "The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products."
  • "There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive. Aside from the initial cost for the tool, you need to pay additionally for support."
  • "It is per device, per year. The pricing is very clear. If you have a service agreement, you get all of your major upgrades and minor upgrades. It was under $10,000 to go all-in with all of the different add-ons for it."
  • "The most valuable feature is the cost compared to other solutions."
  • "This is a well priced solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The platform is reliable in identifying the core system issues.
    Top Answer:It's true; it's not an inexpensive solution. Dynatrace and AppDynamics are consistently on the pricier side. However, when comparing with other solutions like Datadog or New Relic, it becomes apparent… more »
    Top Answer:If we consider the implementation of alternative solutions, such as Dynatrace, there is a notable difference in the approach to agent-based service monitoring. For instance, Dynatrace employs a… more »
    Top Answer:The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers.
    Top Answer:I cannot provide a price rating because we purchased a one-time perpetual license. It's all ours, and we're still enjoying it. We renewed support until last year, but we didn't get benefits from it.
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in server management and application monitoring. An additional feature I would like to see in the next release would be more detailed application monitoring capabilities.
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    Overview

    Application-centric server monitoring in context of your business transactions to proactively isolate and resolve application performance issues faster with actionable, correlated application-server metrics.

    Explore and manage your entire network infrastructure effortlessly with WhatsUp Gold's robust layer 2/3 discovery, creating a detailed interactive map from the edge to the cloud. Monitor devices, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, applications, and traffic flows across various environments. Real-time alerts ensure optimal performance, allowing you to meet or exceed SLAs. The platform offers customizable maps, dashboards, and alerts for easy network management. Quickly resolve issues with intuitive workflows, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). WhatsUp Gold's integrated log management provides easy visibility and control of device log data, allowing monitoring, filtering, searching, and alerting on syslogs or Windows logs. Archive logs to comply with regulatory requirements and preserve historical data, all through a user-friendly interface. Streamline network monitoring and issue resolution with WhatsUp Gold, making network management efficient and hassle-free.

    Sample Customers
    Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia
    Artoni Trasporti, Austin Independent School District, Banca Marche, Burke County North Carolina, Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine, Clayco, Community Integrated Care, Desca, Deutsche Bergbau, Flexi-Van, Gropper, Hamleys, Hammonds Furniture, Knowledge IT, Idras S.P.A., Sibeg, Swann Engineering, Trivium Lindenhof
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm27%
    Retailer18%
    Transportation Company9%
    Hospitality Company9%
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    Financial Services Firm33%
    Computer Software Company18%
    Media Company6%
    Manufacturing Company5%
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Government17%
    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Retailer11%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Government12%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise59%
    Buyer's Guide
    AppDynamics Server Monitoring vs. WhatsUp Gold
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about AppDynamics Server Monitoring vs. WhatsUp Gold and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    AppDynamics Server Monitoring is ranked 19th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 16 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 33rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews. AppDynamics Server Monitoring is rated 8.2, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Server Monitoring writes "A highly stable and scalable solution that provides real-time information on servers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "Accurate network monitoring, but tech support is lacking". AppDynamics Server Monitoring is most compared with Zabbix, OpsRamp, ITRS Geneos, Nutanix Prism and Cisco Intersight, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our AppDynamics Server Monitoring vs. WhatsUp Gold report.

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