We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and SolarWinds Pingdom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."
"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."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"The infrastructure is not as good as other solutions."
"This solution is expensive."
"Its resiliency can be improved. We're told that the best we can do with an on-prem solution is to have a hot standby that requires a manual switchover. So, it is a do-it-yourself Ikea model of maintaining data consistency between two servers, without having low balance or failover considerations for an on-prem solution."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 49th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. 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 SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our AppDynamics vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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