"Working with the solution is very easy. It's user-friendly."
"The breakdown of the response time of different components and getting in-depth details of the slow component are the most valuable features. It is easy to use, and it gets the job done."
"The most valuable feature is application monitoring."
"The VPN is one of the solution's most valuable features for us."
"The simplicity of the dashboard is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to receive in-depth information about applications. It can detect a lot of important information."
"The monitoring so far has been good and we are happy with it."
"It does everything we wanted it to do."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"The AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"Technical support is helpful."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"You can customize alerts based on need."
"They should bring the pricing down to be more competitive."
"How granular I could go down at looking at certain data, especially related to the operations, is limited."
"I haven't come across any features that are lacking."
"The older view is much better than the new view that they have. We'd like to go back to that previous version. The user interface just isn't as nice as it used to be."
"It is very difficult to award the service level cycles at an endpoint level."
"The solution could improve by having more network monitoring features, such as for all the infrastructure."
"It would be nice if there were pre-made dashboards."
"New Relic APM can improve the information when we dig deeper to check a problem. There should be more detailed information provided."
"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."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"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."
"Installation and configuration can be very tough. An average user without specialized knowledge can't do this. You need to have DevOps and QA teams handle it. During installation, a lot of customers get stuck trying to track the database or the API part, and they have to contact customer support."
"At this time, we don't have much visibility on the virtual environment, monitoring, and all other things. We have visibility only for database monitoring, and we have noticed performance impact when deploying database agents on the database server. We got to know this from AppDynamics support also that we should not deploy database agents from the database server. When agents are deployed on the same server and the database is monitored from there, we are not getting database server metrics. Therefore, we don't have those insights, and sometimes, we struggle because of that. They can improve this functionality so that we do not have a performance impact, and we can deploy anywhere. This would help us a lot. In terms of end-user monitoring, currently, it is not working for us because there are some complexities. It is a little complicated, and it takes a little bit of time to understand where you need to make changes. It would be very helpful if they can provide some template designs for end-user monitoring. When our servers are running on VMs, we don't get many insights from the VM side. I don't know whether it is possible to have visibility beyond the database, server, and application and whether there are some features where we can deploy AppDynamics on VMs as well. Such functionality would give us more control over storage, VM, OS, and database. It will also provide complete visibility of our hardware and software."
"AppDynamics is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"They need to improve the consolidation of agents for the agent's installation process."
"The machine-learning is lacking and should be improved."
AppDynamics is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Management (APM) with 35 reviews while Avantra is ranked 37th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 1 review. AppDynamics is rated 7.6, while Avantra is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Great dashboards, with good SAP monitoring but needs to be more reasonably priced". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Avantra writes "Can be fine-tuned as required, provides real-time data but lacks sufficient machine learning capability ". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Splunk, Datadog and Azure Monitor, whereas Avantra is most compared with Dynatrace and IBM Application Performance Management.
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