We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics and others in Mobile APM."AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"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."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"The ability to check parameters for microservice applications is most valuable. It is important for me. I can manually create new business transactions for applications and individually monitor business transactions. I can also use a lot of extensions. It has a lot of extensions to monitor other third-party applications, such as NoSQL applications, memory cache applications, Kafka applications, and Couchbase applications. It is very useful. We are also using the end-user monitoring site to follow all end-user activities. It is important for us to check the errors on the customer site."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"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 documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"The UI could use a little help."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"There are some metrics I'd like to track that are difficult to find or implement into a tracking solution without a lot of manual work."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory."
"We are running a Webmethods stack (Software AG) and Foglight is unable to instrument. We are in a POC with Dynatrace and it was able to instrument with little effort."
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AppDynamics is ranked 3rd in Mobile APM with 153 reviews while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Mobile APM. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] writes "We evaluated other options including BMC, but chose Foglight for it's notifications & the ability to review the history". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint.
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