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"I like that AppDynamics allows every organization to have what they want to see, like for my organization, we're able to customize the dashboard to show us details of what we want to see in our transactions."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"The ability to check parameters for microservice applications is most valuable. It is important for me. I can manually create new business transactions for applications and individually monitor business transactions. I can also use a lot of extensions. It has a lot of extensions to monitor other third-party applications, such as NoSQL applications, memory cache applications, Kafka applications, and Couchbase applications. It is very useful. We are also using the end-user monitoring site to follow all end-user activities. It is important for us to check the errors on the customer site."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"The features that I find most valuable are related to network monitoring."
"Proactive snapshots of transactions and all details of a transaction are saved in case of an error."
"Measurement of response time"
"The ability to accomplish the identification of the root cause of problems with applications in drill-down level by integrating the suite with tools for managing and monitoring."
"The deployment was easy."
"The insight it gives into the applications that it's actually applied to, and the flexibility to do many things with those metrics, and also feed your own metrics from external sources."
"Stability is one of the strongest attributes of CA APM. It is very stable on all platforms."
"It is very useful and helpful with the analysis of historical performance data."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"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."
"This solution is expensive."
"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."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"We need more capabilities to analyze the information that tools collects; for example, using artificial intelligence, or something like that."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive and address support tickets more quickly."
"The integration with CA Spectrum is quite difficult to create, and it is also only one way, only being used to view alarms coming from CA APM."
"They can make it easier to configure."
"Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"As applications move to the cloud, we need more cloud-based solutions from CA APM. This is currently unavailable."
"Very often, we use tools such as Kibana or Jaspersoft for dashboards and reporting on CA APM data because CA APM’s old interfaces do not reflect well in modern displays, compared to those new tools."
"The initial setup is complex."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
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