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"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."
"After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again."
"Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us... Most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We have highly scalable systems and AppDynamics will help us monitor our load on-prem. Our systems range from simple to the most complex and it gives us the visibility across transactions, in one dashboard."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"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."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"Helps the development team to fine-tune and proactively manage the application."
"The time it takes to track problems in applications is the most valuable return that we have from this solution."
"For the most part, we run constantly without any issue at this point because of APM."
"It's a very stable product."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...there is a very easy way to deal with it by adding more servers to the application."
"I have found Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to be scalable."
"An application is quite complicated in the environment of a software reliability engineer, because our applications are like a black box. Thanks to CA APM we are able to transform this black box to a gray box by using the transaction trace functionality services. For me it's the most valuable service of the solution."
"Service maturity when you can retrieve the normal metrics for every major aspect of each module and delivering this info to the correct eyes."
"Global overview of all app layers, including web servers."
"Mean time to recover (MTTR) has reduced significantly during major outages due to specific data pinpointed by DT applications."
"Smartscape display for ease of visibility, pinpointing a exact problem, and providing necessary details for fixing and even improving on."
"It is our main SaaS monitoring and alerting solution, and it allows us to identify many problems that we would miss if we did not have a comprehensive monitoring solution."
"The geographical view provides a nice visualization of performance on a map."
"The best feature of the product for me is the real troubleshooting capability through the PurePath analysis."
"Given the full-stack approach, you are able to view from the end user perspective, almost down to the bare metal."
"It prevents (together with performance testing) production performance issues which usually result in customer complaints or system downtime."
"Its resiliency can be improved. We're told that the best we can do with an on-prem solution is to have a hot standby that requires a manual switchover. So, it is a do-it-yourself Ikea model of maintaining data consistency between two servers, without having low balance or failover considerations for an on-prem solution."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"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."
"When you have high stress of visits I do not know if you are more stress because of the amount of visits or because you have to wait eternal 60 seconds to find out it things are going well or you already have mess."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"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."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"The upgrade was complex. The documentation could have been a little bit better, but other than that, it was okay."
"Its profiling. The uniqueness instead of me looking at sampling data, I need to know the m-1 event that actually triggered my scenario where that m event caused a catastrophic event, like a ripple effect; I need to know that m-1. What triggered my major event means I need to understand the event that triggered it and before the cause of that event itself."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"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."
"Support could be much better."
"The upcoming changes for the deployment process of the agent will help a lot, in that others have gotten to that point first."
"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."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive and address support tickets more quickly."
"Under heavyweight, Dynatrace becomes slower when listing PurePaths."
"When it comes to monitoring, we did the integration with VMware vCenter, and we were able to see some good stuff. The VMware vCenter integration was really great, but what we really missed was the integration with the network management stuff such as Cisco ACI. We wanted to see integration in that area, but it was not provided by Dynatrace. So, the main feature for us is integration with things like Cisco ACI. If they can bring that one in, with vCenter in there, it would be a total solution. It would be absolutely incomparable to anything else in the market."
"The solution could improve on integration, cloud services, and making the configuration less difficult."
"This solution needs better support for security and monolithic batch processes."
"The Web UI can be slow and hard to understand."
"Two things that can be improved are the licensing and the Business dashboard."
"The messaging layer is not really capturable and measurable right now."
"I'd like to see native support, because we're launching native apps in multiple countries so we really want to have a really good feel for how those apps are going and how well they're performing, if there are issues."
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