We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Zabbix 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."AppDynamics is scalable."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"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."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"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 most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"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."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"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."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"The event correlation could be better."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"In terms of user-friendliness, large maps could be more interactive. We should be able to click on some areas and move some objects. It would make it simpler to see things while analyzing some dedicated parameters."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 34 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 7.8, while Zabbix is rated 8.6. 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 Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Checkmk, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and Nagios Core.
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