We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, BMC TrueSight Operations Management, and Instana Dynamic APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"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."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"The tailoring of the knowledge modules has been particularly useful as I can streamline the agents to only report on critical events."
"It works irrespective of the operating system we’re running."
"We're using native monitoring capabilities for all our server hardware, for visibility for applications, for URLs, for webpage response and accuracy, and for monitoring network throughput in a lot of particular instances. We're using lightweight protocols for pinging, for DNS, for LDAP."
"I like the deep-dive detail and end-user metrics data. The synthetic monitor is the best one. The best point of the new one is that there's no need for configuration. You can inject the Java script and start to change major developments in the application. This is a good approach, and we received all the data using this."
"The solution has a very good business event manager tool."
"I believe that the ease of use and UI is great"
"I like the event management part."
"It provides common administration, and a Single Sign-On Platform with RBAC, which eases the cross launch between multiple tools"
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"It is a stable solution."
"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."
"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"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."
"Reporting would be an area for improvement in TrueSight... We have almost 800 customers today on TrueSight and just under 10,000 assets. We need to be able to give a customer some information. If the customer's product fails, they'll ask us, "Did it have a problem beforehand?" We have all those events and we know all the problems it had beforehand. We have to be able to give them access to that kind of reporting. That's an enhancement that we need."
"It's too complex, too many servers are required, there are too many different components in the solution, and a lot of agents are required."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could use some enhancements in the application visibility tools."
"There are some small limitations with this tool in terms of reporting dashboards that fit all of the requirements of the individual customer."
"The knowledge modules could be more lightweight in size. At present, the installation packages can be quite large."
"Deployment requires lots of resources (servers). It has too many consoles."
"The UI for the end users could be improved and more flexible than it is now."
"The stability of BMC TrueSight Operations Management needs improvement. My organization's infrastructure is vast and implemented based on BMC recommendations, but the solution needs to be optimized for large-capacity infrastructure."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
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