We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and ThousandEyes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The company provides excellent service."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"I think I would like to see a better way to deploy and upgrade the machine agents that we use. Currently, we have to use SCCM, and that might just be our environment with the customer."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"It's an expensive solution."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while ThousandEyes 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and ITRS Geneos, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Fortinet FortiSIEM.
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