"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"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."
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"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."
"Most of the features in the way Datadog does monitoring are commendable and that is the reason we choose it. We did some comparisons before picking Datadog. Datadog was recommended based on the features provided."
"The fact that everything is under a single pane of glass is really valuable, as developers don't have to spend their time copying correlation IDs across tools to find what they need."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"At this time, we don't have much visibility on the virtual environment, monitoring, and all other things. We have visibility only for database monitoring, and we have noticed performance impact when deploying database agents on the database server. We got to know this from AppDynamics support also that we should not deploy database agents from the database server. When agents are deployed on the same server and the database is monitored from there, we are not getting database server metrics. Therefore, we don't have those insights, and sometimes, we struggle because of that. They can improve this functionality so that we do not have a performance impact, and we can deploy anywhere. This would help us a lot. In terms of end-user monitoring, currently, it is not working for us because there are some complexities. It is a little complicated, and it takes a little bit of time to understand where you need to make changes. It would be very helpful if they can provide some template designs for end-user monitoring. When our servers are running on VMs, we don't get many insights from the VM side. I don't know whether it is possible to have visibility beyond the database, server, and application and whether there are some features where we can deploy AppDynamics on VMs as well. Such functionality would give us more control over storage, VM, OS, and database. It will also provide complete visibility of our hardware and software."
"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."
"This solution is expensive."
"AppDynamics is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
"I think better access to their engineers when we have a problem could be better."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"Their security features could be improved. We looked at their Security Monitoring feature but it was early in its development. Datadog are just getting into the security space so I'm sure this will improve in the future."
AppDynamics is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Management (APM) with 31 reviews while Datadog is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Management (APM) with 32 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 7.6, while Datadog is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Great dashboards, with good SAP monitoring but needs to be more reasonably priced". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Provides insightful analytics and good visibility that assist with making architectural decisions". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Splunk, New Relic APM and Azure Monitor, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic APM, Azure Monitor, Splunk and Zabbix. See our AppDynamics vs. Datadog report.
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