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"The most valuable feature is the ability to take a report, and in particular, a visual, and link it to actual application performance and then the consequences. This means you can show how an incident or action has an effect on the business."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."
"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' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"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."
"We make custom dashboards for our development areas so they can understand how busy traffic affects their application with traffic. They can see how traffic directly affects their application in positive or negative ways."
"The most valuable features are the low overhead, the ability to monitor production on 24/7 principle, the ability to decrease time to discover the point of failure in the IT infrastructure or the application environment in a short period of time, reporting for analyzing the performance of the application for improving the code optimizing process."
"Crash analytics goes down to the level of code you need to check."
"Being able to pull in and merge the infrastructure and application data."
"The APM tool allows us to monitor performance of that application, where are the pain points, where are the slowdowns, to focus on where we can fix those."
"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."
"Cross-VM transaction traces provide a complete "what happened where"."
"Enables me to monitor multiple servers, applications, resources, and users"
"I have also been able to take advantage of some of the more complex statistical capabilities when analyzing logs."
"It's better than IBM, in my opinion, because it's an independent entity."
"It has a rapid response search environment in the event of an incident."
"Search language is easy to understand and teach to new users."
"We can ingest and correlate data from virtually any type of system."
"It is user-friendly. It is more effective than other solutions. The support and help for troubleshooting and the documentation from Splunk make it very effective."
"Its dashboard is valuable. If you have a good knowledge of how to create a dashboard, you can create any dashboard related to cybersecurity. If fine-tuned, the alarms that are triggered for instant review are also very valuable and useful."
"Being able to track impossible travel logins and things of that nature is valuable. We can track user logins from various IPs, various countries, and at various times to see if everything adds up."
"This solution is expensive."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"We constantly need to improve our alert mechanism because we get a lot of false-positive alerts. These are not real errors. In addition, for end-user monitoring, sometimes, we are not able to catch all user activities. Because of not being able to follow the user activity from the start to the end, we are missing out on the performance issues."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"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."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive and address support tickets more quickly."
"Dashboards need to be improved in order to make them self-explanatory."
"I would like to see intelligence, deep intelligence or deep analytics."
"Upgradability to it is a project instead of a patch. If it was actually an automated process to where it just fed updates to our product that would be great. Now, we have to spin up an effort to actually upgrade the solution."
"The reason it's not a ten is because they don't focus enough on improving over time like other competitors do who have a more modern and complete tool."
"Java Console uses too much memory."
"We need more capabilities to analyze the information that tools collects; for example, using artificial intelligence, or something like that."
"CEM needs to be simplified, because it causes too many interruptions in our daily work."
"It requires a significant amount of relatively complex architecture once you push past the single server instance."
"It's difficult to set up initially, and their billing model is also a bit complicated."
"It takes time to train people."
"Sometimes, there is latency in the logs."
"Certain sections of the developer documentation could use some updating and clarification."
"Some of the search functions can be better. There has been a lot of talk at the conference about the update of SPL before each iteration. That will be a lot of help."
"It's costly."
"Splunk could add more ways to manage archiving and storage. There isn't a web interface. You can do this on the SaaS version, but the on-premise platform doesn't have this option. It has other things but no option for remote NAS. I would like to have a personal web interface where I can specify how long logs should be stored. To have this readily available on the web, you need to adjust some settings on the backend. That is tricky."
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