We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is the favored option over AppDynamics due to its seamless integration with various solutions, support for Kubernetes and open-source technologies, and speedy and stable performance. Users appreciate its ease of deployment and support.
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"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."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"AppDynamics lacks integration with cloud technology. It probably isn't a good fit for emerging enterprises because it's an on-premise solution, and many newer companies are moving to the cloud. AppDynamics' on-premise technology works reasonably well, but it doesn't have cloud features."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
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AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 25 reviews while VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is ranked 30th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 7.8, while VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is rated 8.2. 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 VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront writes "Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana, Zabbix and Prometheus. See our AppDynamics vs. VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront report.
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