We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and BMC Compuware Strobe based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"It's made it easier to collaborate across teams; be able to have the same data immediately in front of you just by sharing a URL."
"Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift."
"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."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"The initial setup was fairly easy."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"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."
"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."
"I think I would like to see a better way to deploy and upgrade the machine agents that we use. Currently, we have to use SCCM, and that might just be our environment with the customer."
"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."
"It could do with more than one data centre/multiple AWS accounts in a pane of glass. Also, improved scalability to large environments would be helpful."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"There are certain aspects of the configuration that could be simplified a bit."
Earn 20 points
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while BMC Compuware Strobe is ranked 62nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while BMC Compuware Strobe is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC Compuware Strobe writes "Stable with a good database and a good interface". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas BMC Compuware Strobe is most compared with IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS, IBM Application Performance Management and Mainframe Application Tuner.
See our list of best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors.
We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.