We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Aternity AppInternals [EOL], and Broadcom DX Application Performance Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work."
"Clicks to root cause - fast & easy to diagnose and deep-dive"
"Synthetic transactions, WMI and SNMP query capability."
"The product is very useful to find problems in middleware for the application servers, especially agent instrumentation and management is user friendly."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is the integration with their other systems. It's easy to understand and it points out the relevant problems in the enterprise."
"Transaction Tracing is the most useful. Being able to have the transaction stitched together so we can see where the problem is has proven invaluable."
"As an Administrator, before we bought this AppInternals, I didn't have visibility on why items were slow or why an application was not running. This gives us the ability to see what's going on. The application is load balancing. We can now see if its own server has issues or just one specific server has issues."
"Browsermetrix, which is real-user monitoring via JS injection and linked back to TTW via cookie. It allows us to see the experience of every user hitting our sites and analyze performance by region, browser, etc."
"I like it that one can match IPs with the application name."
"The most valuable features are the low overhead, the ability to monitor production on 24/7 principle, the ability to decrease time to discover the point of failure in the IT infrastructure or the application environment in a short period of time, reporting for analyzing the performance of the application for improving the code optimizing process."
"The features that I find most valuable are related to network monitoring."
"The deployment was easy."
"WAS GC monitoring enhanced our application performance and DB SQL performance."
"The executive dashboard we created gives a lot of visibility. There's no working on something for a little bit before someone knows."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is its user interface."
"It has a random transaction trace which gives our customers the ability to look at how their transaction performs."
"Helps the development team to fine-tune and proactively manage the application."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"The training on the dashboards that is provided could be a little bit better, as could the use cases. They should have some good examples out there. As it is right now, I had to scour YouTube to find some stuff."
"They need to improve the consolidation of agents for the agent's installation process."
"The end-user experience is not really good because we can't catch all of the transactions. We only can catch the full stack of flow transactions, but I think that this is caused by the technology they use. If they will catch every transaction, it will cause a very big load on the performance of applications. The monitoring of all transactions needs improvement."
"AppDynamics lacks integration with cloud technology. It probably isn't a good fit for emerging enterprises because it's an on-premise solution, and many newer companies are moving to the cloud. AppDynamics' on-premise technology works reasonably well, but it doesn't have cloud features."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"We'd like to be able to find out performance problems on application class and methods."
"The recording mechanism for synthetic transactions could be improved as well."
"Support for PHP, DB and other applications need to be supported."
"They should find a way for report generation from TTW to run quicker."
"We have put in a request as an enhancement that we would like to search for items. If we're searching for a URL and we want to know was it a get or was it a post."
"The admin dashboard could be easier as it takes a little bit of time to get used to it."
"It would be great if the solution could offer fixed bundles and more features."
"The technical support is not very good and should be improved."
"Issue resolution needs to be faster, rather than having users wait for the next release for issues to be fixed."
"The product displays some graphics and sometimes we want to have some different metrics in the same graphic but it doesn't display in the same scale, so it's quite complicated to see the metrics. If the product would be able to manage a double scale, it would be perfect."
"The integration with CA Spectrum is quite difficult to create, and it is also only one way, only being used to view alarms coming from CA APM."
"The solution still needs the administrator of APM to know a lot more to configure and control everything. So it's a headache for the administrator to do the daily jobs."
"Stability could actually be helped because it is a wrapper or an agent on our system. If we are having a bad day in production or if other resources are being utilized, then we will get get gaps in our monitoring system."
"I would like to see intelligence, deep intelligence or deep analytics."
"The technical support is very poor."
"Our users lag how to identify the root cause with this solution. If they could come up with a more user-friendly version, that would be a good thing, since other vendors currently have better features and more user-friendly products than CA APM."
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