AppDynamics and Prisma Cloud are both popular among users for their valuable features, ease of use, and positive outcomes. While AppDynamics is praised for its detailed analytics and reporting capabilities, Prisma Cloud stands out for its comprehensive security capabilities and automated compliance assessment. Users have noted that the pricing and licensing options for both products are fair and transparent. However, AppDynamics users have highlighted the need for a more intuitive interface and better integration with other systems, while Prisma Cloud users have mentioned the importance of enhancing alerting and reporting functionality.
The summary above is based on 136 interviews we conducted recently with AppDynamics and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"CSPM is very useful because it gives us good policies and violation alerts."
"The Twistlock vulnerability scanning tool is its most valuable feature. It provides us insight into security vulnerabilities, running inside both on-premise and public cloud-based container platforms. It is filling a gap that we have with traditional vulnerability scanning tools, where we don't have the ability to scan inside containers."
"I found the network queue sets useful. I also liked the Workload Protection Module, the vulnerability findings, and how the rule sets handle the vulnerabilities based on severity."
"The product provides very good network security."
"Configuration monitoring and alerting is the most valuable feature; it happens at the cloud's speed, allowing our development team to respond quickly. If a configuration goes against our security best practices, we're alerted promptly and can act to resolve the issue. As cloud security staff, we're not staring at the cloud all the time, and we want to let the developers do their jobs so that our company is protected and work is proceeding within our security controls."
"CSPM is the most valuable feature for any organization that runs its workloads in the cloud."
"The visibility on alerts helps you investigate more easily and see details faster."
"The CVEs are valuable because we used to have a tool to scan CVEs, at the language level, for the dependencies that our developers had. What is good about Prisma Cloud is that the CVEs are not only from the software layer, but from all layers: the language, the base image, and you also have CVEs from the host. It covers the full base of security."
"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"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."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"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."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"I would like Prisma Cloud to improve its mapping feature to increase usability."
"The deployment and onboarding are plug-and-play, but somewhat hard to handle in terms of integration with external operations tools. The product design isn't up to the current standard. I would recommend having higher standards in terms of integration with other tools, especially operationalized tools."
"The innovation side of the solution could be more efficient and more detailed."
"The UI could use some improvement; we usually find the information we're looking for, but what fields can be clicked on and what workflow to follow to get the required information is not always evident. Sometimes we're all over the place, clicking around to drill in and uncover the alert and investigation details we're looking for."
"A couple of exporting functionalities should be more user-friendly because if I want to export something, I can get a lot of data visible to that particular CSV."
"We would like to have the detections be more contemporaneous. For example, we've seen detections of an overprivileged user or whatever it might be in any of the hundreds of Prisma policies, where there are 50 minutes of latency between the event and the alert."
"The UI is good, however, they could improve the experience."
"While the code security feature has undergone recent enhancements, there is room for improvement in terms of its cost module."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 83 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. 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 Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security.
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