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.
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"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."
"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."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"This solution is expensive."
"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."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"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 Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"The integration part in AppDynamics with other systems is an area with a little difficulty, especially when it comes to the configuration area. The integration of AppDynamics with other products takes a lot of time."
"There isn’t much clarity regarding the issues that happen at the server end. It is a push model and from the client’s point of view, it needs to look better and solve remote issues."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The DSL could be improved."
"Its stability could be even better."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 29 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 16 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 7.6, while Prometheus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Good tracing capabilities and helpful technical support but needs better analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prometheus writes "Offers a stand-alone, user-friendly process with great features". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Oracle Enterprise Manager, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and ITRS Geneos. See our AppDynamics vs. Prometheus report.
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