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 Management (APM)."AppDynamics has been stable."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"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."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"This solution is expensive."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"Installation and configuration can be very tough. An average user without specialized knowledge can't do this. You need to have DevOps and QA teams handle it. During installation, a lot of customers get stuck trying to track the database or the API part, and they have to contact customer support."
"The training on the dashboards that is provided could be a little bit better, as could the use cases. They should have some good examples out there. As it is right now, I had to scour YouTube to find some stuff."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 29 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 29th in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 7.4, while ThousandEyes is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Great dashboards, with good SAP monitoring but needs to be more reasonably priced". 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, Splunk Enterprise Security, Datadog, Elastic Observability and ITRS Geneos, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Meraki Dashboard, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Kentik.
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