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"It is a stable solution."
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"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."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"The CA tools allow to me to get into detailed transactions for custom ranking, and be able to make predictions. It also gathers data. Some other tools may be good at one area, but not good overall, including the mainframe."
"The deep-process instrumentation gave us an opportunity to understand application process performance in detail."
"The deployment was easy."
"Cross-VM transaction traces provide a complete "what happened where"."
"Cross-platform business transaction tracing supports the ability to monitor end-to-end performance across the stack, providing granular insight into customer experience KPIs, which are a critical success factor for organizations."
"We did the setup for a new datacenter, and that was pretty straightforward."
"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."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"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."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing."
"The APM SQL feature doesn't perform like we would like it to. I know that's a new feature with 10.5, so it may be one of those things that gets a little better, but it should run faster."
"Lacks some integration between all the tools."
"A CA APM agent takes a lot of memory. That is one disadvantage. If you configure CA APM correctly it will still consume around 15 to 20 percent of memory."
"They need to add support for new frameworks, or at least provide a broader guide/perspectives to add them to monitoring specific agents to retrieve metrics with thresholds as a reference to guide the customer as to where they must go to achieve this."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive and address support tickets more quickly."
"The stability could be more reliable."
"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."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
"We are running a Webmethods stack (Software AG) and Foglight is unable to instrument. We are in a POC with Dynatrace and it was able to instrument with little effort."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"The version compatibility needs work."
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