We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and Oracle Enterprise Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"Before we moved the code to AppDynamics, we had to compare the agile process and also had to make sure that they're following the standards."
"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."
"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."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"It alerts us, or can detect, potential problems which are building up."
"The real-user monitoring is mostly used to gauge the difference in performance for multitenant applications, This is so we can discern if there are any local network or client-facing issues when we do a comparison between each customer. It is quite important for us to be able to identify a client-side issue, as opposed to a feature managed problem, because we're essentially providing managed services of business applications."
"The primary use case is to monitor all our applications. We want a single place where we can monitor all our applications that we are building. Therefore, if something goes wrong, we immediately can find out what went wrong."
"I would rate the technical support very well. They work with the inside their development teams to get us the best answer, as much as possible."
"We know exactly which line, which method, and which program needs fixing, so we directly go to the right developer and the guy comes in fixes it."
"I have reduced our disruption time. With the automatic alerts, we prevent and better catch the root cause of problems."
"Global overview of all app layers, including web servers."
"It provides the whole perspective in a single place when trying to guide the right people to go to the right solution at any given point in time."
"It is the best monitoring tool for Oracle databases."
"We can manage everything in our environment."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager is a scalable solution."
"The single-pane and single interface in the centralized system is the most valuable feature."
"It can also help with capacity planning, sizing, and maximizing overall performance in a large scale environment."
"The most valuable features are security and speed."
"Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product."
"I think the look and feel and the accessibility to the databases, the scale of environment support."
"I think I would like to see a better way to deploy and upgrade the machine agents that we use. Currently, we have to use SCCM, and that might just be our environment with the customer."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"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."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"We have a couple of one page apps that it has a problem with because it doesn't call to the server all the time. I believe part of that is taken care of in the next version."
"We have had problems with our middle layer application implementation."
"In the next release, I'd like to see more portables included regarding the screens."
"I would like to have something more along the lines of the old DC RUM, because we have lot of clients with old technologies, legacy technology, and we really want to integrate it with Dynatrace so that they can use just one single product. So, it needs better integration with legacy products."
"The solution's ability to assess the severity of anomalies based on the actual impact to users and business KPIs is great. In my opinion, it could be extended even more. I would like it to be more configurable for the end-user. It would be nice to have more business rules applicable to the severity. It's already very good as it is now. It is based on the impact on your front-end users. But it would be nice if we could configure it a bit more."
"Data streaming and dashboard loading can be improved to reduce dashboard latency."
"It is always requiring us to update the Dynatrace client."
"The solution could improve by allowing more dashboards customization. This would allow us to monitor the metric better."
"They should improve the hover text context. This would provide assistance whenever a task is attempted by a DBA."
"The deployment is not straightforward."
"My opinion is that this solution needs to improve consolidation. That is what our business needs the most right now."
"It needs to support the Database versions lower than 10.2."
"The solution has a very large resource system. It's too big. There are too many items."
"Technical support could be more responsive."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"I would say mostly backup and recovery, through the Enterprise Manager. Or any corruptions, to be able to fix them through Enterprise Manager."
