We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prometheus is praised for its flexibility, integration capabilities, and affordability as an open-source solution. AppDynamics, on the other hand, is considered expensive, has a high learning curve, and poor end-user experience. Although it offers valuable features, its complex infrastructure is a drawback. Prometheus, however, is reliable, has a fast data storage system, and is highly valued for its flexibility and integration capabilities, making it thew preferred solution.
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"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."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift."
"It is a stable solution."
"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"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."
"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."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"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."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Prometheus 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Grafana. See our AppDynamics vs. Prometheus report.
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