We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and DX SaaS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We're a large organization, so we appreciate AppDynamics' wide coverage. It may not work in all areas, but it has broad coverage. We can use the same dataset for different use case aspects. That is the beauty of AppDynamics. You can coordinate APM, EUM, and infrastructure through one dataset."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."
"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."
"It supports numerous platforms."
"Actionable insight is the most valuable feature."
"DX allows you to customize and gives you a high degree of control."
"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."
"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."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"An area that has room for improvement on the CR and ERP would be the addition of monitoring of the internal solution. For example, you can monitor the day-to-day and everything in the transactions with AppDynamics, but there's also a lot going on in the kernel itself that you cannot monitor. The automation needs to improve as well. As it stands, a lot of customization needs to happen before you can use AppDynamics."
"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."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"The ability to scale presents a challenge as the cost of handling vast amounts of data in the cloud must be taken into account."
"Old user interface and dashboards could be improved."
"DX SaaS is a latecomer to the APM market. Some things that are straightforward in Dynatrace are complicated in DX. For example, upgrading the agents is a seamless process in Dynatrace, but it's a pain in DX SaaS. You should be able to upgrade in the Application Command Center. However, it is not working correctly."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while DX SaaS is ranked 50th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while DX SaaS is rated 6.6. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX SaaS writes "It's highly customizable but lacks many features of available in competing solutions". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas DX SaaS is most compared with DX Unified Infrastructure Management, Zabbix, Nagios XI and Dynatrace. See our AppDynamics vs. DX SaaS report.
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