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AppDynamics

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What is AppDynamics?

AppDynamics APM automatically discovers, maps, and visualizes your critical customer journeys through each application service and infrastructure dependency. Teams have a single source of truth to focus on end-to-end performance in the context of the customer experience, instead of monitoring individual services.

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Awards & Recognition

AppDynamics won the following awards in the Application Performance Management - Enterprise category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

5 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

4 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2022

AppDynamics Ratings

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87 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love AppDynamics?

2% Negative

8% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Transaction Request Performance

Automated Diagnostics

Code Performance Monitoring

Application Metric Reporting

Application Request Tracing

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Server Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Error Reporting

Scalability

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

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AppDynamics Reviews

Fabian R.

Role: Human Resources
Industry: Agriculture
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Dec 2022

Best in what it does.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?

AppDynamics is a fantastic product that keeps developing and adding features. It has multiple times given us the preemptive warnings we needed to find a problem before it turned into a full outage. The bulk of the instrumented programs had rather straightforward implementations.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Observing everything in a single pane, I can view infrastructural response with a simple click of button, and user click-through, or completion of periodic or weekly reporting, takes only minutes as opposed to hours or days. We could see the drop-off point and the proportion of users who visited or clicked through based on their device and the time of day.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It takes some learning to use, just like any complicated piece of software. However, considering the volume of data it produces right out of the box, it is simple for users to ignore configuration modifications. There can be more noise as a result than news. On every one of the functions, some of the information I need gets lost.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

AppDynamics has been my go-to software for a little more than a year. It provides you with the flow of where the transactional activity is flowing from and to which side while displaying an excellent map of servers and databases. Additionally, it keeps you informed about the top operating classes using the most CPU and memory. It is among the greatest tools for monitoring applications.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity

Amie W.

Role: Public Sector
Industry: Utilities
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2022

It is an excellent tool for organizational need.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?

When triggers are triggered, we can specify alerts, exceptions, and actions to be taken, including sending emails or running scripts. You can identify a line of SQL code that is causing a performance bottleneck by performing a thorough analysis of the performance of a transaction.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We can also choose to get the warnings through various channels, which enable us to be aware of any program-related issues in advance. Depending on our demands, we can also create alternate panels, which are generally highly useful. It greatly aided in achieving the most important objective, thus I would unquestionably recommend it to others.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It takes time and effort to configure for numerous areas running identical AppDynamics software packages. With driver terms, there could be more improvements to be made. We have experienced problems with AppDynamics drivers and agents failing to display traffic or data, which puts the support team in a stressful situation.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

We are making an effort to keep track of how all business activities are being used, such as how long it takes to get in touch with a certain API endpoint. Insights on Business Applications, such as file transfer services and transaction services that are essential to the business revenue are provided by AppDynamics, which plays a crucial role.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Sridhar S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

E2E APM Suite

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?

Dynatrace, Ymonitor

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Business Transactions

What do you dislike most about this product?

Configurations on client side servers

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Do proper POC for the requirement

Pros

Generous Negotitation
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

AppDynamics Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love AppDynamics?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment Supports one or many deployment models - On-prem, cloud or hybrid hosting of the database system.

Transaction Request Performance Tracking the performance of all web and other transactions within your system.

Automated Diagnostics Automated diagnostics providing prebuilt workflows for problem detection, correlation of application behavior and performance, and determination of cause.

Code Performance Monitoring Tracking application performance at the code-base level.

Application Metric Reporting Tracking of both custom and basic application framework metrics.

Application Request Tracing Detail key attributes of application requests and transactions.

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support Monitoring capabilities for cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure ServiceFabric.

Server Monitoring Monitor usage and performance of all application dependencies like databases, servers, containers, web services, caching, etc.

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM) Synthetic front-end monitoring simulates user interactions with online applications, including fully scripted transactions.

Error Reporting Tracking and automatic notification of alerts or errors within the system.

Scalability Scalability refers to the transaction size per second / time taken to put a transaction in the block and the time taken to reach a consensus.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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AppDynamics Reviews

Fabian R.

Best in what it does.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Amie W.

It is an excellent tool for organizational need.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sridhar S.

E2E APM Suite

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Transaction Request Performance

Automated Diagnostics

Code Performance Monitoring

Application Metric Reporting

Application Request Tracing

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Server Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Error Reporting

Scalability

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support