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"It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"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."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"Stability is one of the strongest attributes of CA APM. It is very stable on all platforms."
"For me, the most valuable feature is being able to check memory patterns. We check them when we do load testing or soak testing to see if there are any memory leaks."
"Scalable, stable, and easy to deploy APM tool which effectively monitors code-level visibility."
"Some of its valuable features include transaction traces, dashboards, and metric grouping to see combined data."
"Helps the development team to fine-tune and proactively manage the application."
"Now, we know we have a problem, because there is a primary layer of alerting or metrics monitoring put in place, that is the good part."
"It is very useful and helpful with the analysis of historical performance data."
"I like that it gives you a wide range of data where you can see the application outage response from concurrent locations and the number of stalled jobs."
"The ability to stop/pause and capture logs when something happens is the most valuable feature."
"Docker containers are completely supported, kind of like "first class citizens"."
"The UI could use a little help."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"The end-user experience is not really good because we can't catch all of the transactions. We only can catch the full stack of flow transactions, but I think that this is caused by the technology they use. If they will catch every transaction, it will cause a very big load on the performance of applications. The monitoring of all transactions needs improvement."
"Support could be much better."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive and address support tickets more quickly."
"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."
"The upgrade was complex. The documentation could have been a little bit better, but other than that, it was okay."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Needs custom dashboards."
"The front-end representation should match other competitors such as AppDynamics."
"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."
""Events" reporting (errors, crashes, etc.) is not clear at all in a Mesos environment (i.e., it's not clear what specific container is the one that went down). In a Docker Compose environment, it may be way better."
"It is needs to automate the actions to take when an alert is triggered."
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