AppDynamics

Avantages

It is very easy to install and integrate with application. It will monitor application API, database and server. We can set alert and email notifications. Also we can trigger script or specific action based on requirements. It is best monitoring tool available in market. It will help to troubleshoot application issue. We can collect all thread dump and analyze to find put application performance issue.

Inconvénients

I haven't found any issue yet. It is working preety well.

Avantages

The possibility to go into detail in case of error. You can arrive to the line of code having the issue. At the same time, in case of bad performance, you are able to know what was happening at that moment.
I would add also the alert section, it helps you to trigger alarm when it is needed. That may be fantastic for the team managing the operation / support h24. This team may be also helped by the dashboard that the users of AppDyn can create.

Inconvénients

Setup of the Agent - there are other products doing better this part (the concept of OneAgent available for example in Dynatrace).
Setup complex in case of SAP ecosystem.
Real User Monitoring - the products specialized on this topic (doing only this) are better than AppDynamics. At the same time, with AppDyn you can have the monitoring end to end (from the final users to the specific server)

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à AppDynamics

Avantages

I like monitoring fuctionality most. For example Database Monitoring, User Experience Monitoring, Performance Monitoring.

Inconvénients

We may need extra training to use it effectively as it is not simple to use.

Avantages

Cloud app service monitoring and SQL DB performance troubleshooting feature

Inconvénients

Initial deployment and fine-tuning can be time-consuming, especially in large or hybrid environments.

Avantages

In AppDynamics, we can collaborate with AWS related resources to view in detail usage of memory, cpu of each nodes

Inconvénients

Little bit when we are setting up AppDynamics connection initially

Avantages

Product is easy to interface with - we have numerous monitors DB, Java, .Net and they work well

Inconvénients

Setup and configuration are sometimes a pain and usually involves support

Avantages

Appdynamics is a great 360 view tool to use for any application environment. I like the application, server and even the network flow monitoring of the application. My best part of the application feature is it drill down capability in determine root cause of an issue.

Inconvénients

The setup is not ease and requires a lot of expertise. I also do not like the the fact that every component is billed or must purchase license to use.

Avantages

Easy to drill down to ground zero, helps in faster triage of transaction failures.

Inconvénients

A little complex for novice users. Too many steps to follow

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à AppDynamics

Avantages

The good thing about the tools is its integration with the load runner tool for performance testing
We can get the exact method and class names from the code which helps in finding the bottleneck

Inconvénients

Some flex calls cannot be captured with the appdynamics so cannot be used for the flex coded developed applications. Extra license cost for the database monitoring can be more structured

Avantages

The functions of projects are great, drill to the issue to root level and this makes it easy to resolve issues.

Inconvénients

Slowness, it takes time to respond and granularity of data reduces with time.

Avantages

AppDynamics provides support for various platforms and offers a relatively straightforward setup process. Additionally, it provides support for personalized monitoring and enables you to effortlessly deploy the necessary components.
AppDynamics boasts an intuitive interface and user-friendly charts and graphs that are readily accessible to individuals without technical expertise.

Inconvénients

it seems that you do not currently have the privilege to import AppDBs in order to capture specific items.

Avantages

Best application to monitor the application servers. Continues monitoring helps to understand the application behavior and outage of the application can be well predicted .

Inconvénients

The dashboard layout of the application statistics can be improved for better presentation .

Avantages

Real time instrumentation with complete drill down analysis for all the transaction our app makes.
This tools makes life easy for not only developer, but Performance engineers, PS and ops team .
Single tool for everything

Inconvénients

Customization of alerts and suppression is tricky. No access to get AppD DB for capturing specific things.
Scenario - I want my URL or API to be send in the app d alert but there is no provisioning , i raised ticket as well, but so far no provision. By clicking on errorneous BT and opening in appd resulterd in the errorneous API which is sometime time taking process.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à AppDynamics

Avantages

AppDynamics provides real time monitoring. It is very useful for real-time visibility into application performance. We can quickly identify and resolve issues before they impact end-users. It is highly customizable and we can customize based on specific requirements and needs. We can also create custom alerts and dashboards as per requirments. AppDynamics is easy to use, with an intuitive interface and easy-to-understand charts and graphs that make it accessible even to non-technical users.

Inconvénients

It is a great tool but little expensive to use. Somewhat complex to setup and configure and may require technical expertise. AppDynamics requires significant computing resources, including memory and CPU, which can impact performance on smaller systems.

Avantages

1. Real time monitoring of your servers, databases.
2. Provide in depth details on which process classes are consuming the memory.
3. Continuous alerts on servers and data bases.
4. Transaction trace.
5. Server Health, Disk Usage, Network I/O, Disk I/O.
6. Server logs available to RCA issues.
7. Transaction and Traffic reports can be customized as per need basis.
8. Best part is the Map Flow.

Inconvénients

Nothing much to add except the cost. Its a little expensive.

Avantages

Appdynamics, is a great application monitoring and management tool. It can monitor any application, server or database. It provides user traffic details, servers capacity, response time in real time. It helps resolves more than 90 % of server side issues by checking the appdynamics reports as it provides in depth details to the strategy calls.

Inconvénients

Needs a little bit of learning curve to get started and its a little less cost effective

Avantages

We started using AppDynamics in 2012 when we inherited code in production that was built by someone else. The level of insights it provided helped us address the production issues quickly and we started using it for all new development and deployment. It helped us move from being reactive to proactive in identifying and managing issues/ bottlenecks

Inconvénients

Like any complex piece of software it requires some learning. However, given the amount of information it generates out of the box it is easy for people not to make changes to configurations. That might result in more noise than news

Avantages

Single pane viewing of what matters most. Simple click of a button and I can view infrastructure response, user "click thru" i.e. completes to weekly/monthly reporting taking only minutes instead of hours or days. We were able to view what percentage of users visited/clicked thru with device and time of day and able to see their drop point. Immediately saw a trend and got our app team on it and saw almost immediate uptick in customer completes/orders. What sold me was the agentless monitoring of the databases so we could actully see in real time what days/times we needed to apply additional CPU resources.

Inconvénients

I guess I really can't state a "plausible" con......the software goes above and beyond what we had envisioned and actually made everyone's duties easier to complete which we were able to turn reports and analytics around quicker.......so if I had to complain about something.....maybe the price??? But isn't always about "price".

Avantages

The user interface so everyone can understand. Especially the graphics showing the flow of network traffic between our various monitored servers is great.

Inconvénients

Learning all the features of the application can take time.

Avantages

- Simple and easy to use interface.
- Provides complete visibility on the application's performance (Application Monitoring), database performance, and infrastructure performance ranging from 1 day - 1 year.
- Provides tons of information which can be used to resolve an issue quickly.

Inconvénients

- Although the interface is easy to use, but still it is very hard to find the valuable information quickly many times.
It is highly recommended that a beginner must go through a training program before using this software.
- Some parts of the software still use flash.

Avantages

Automatically discover and monitor applications that are deployed.
Get notified when there are health rules that are violated which you can setup yourself.
Capture errors automatically with certain error codes and error logs.

Inconvénients

There are many different tabs and links to click on but most of the time you don't know what they do.
Only use a very small set of features in the overall app due to its complexity

Avantages

It is easy to monitor the server side and client side performance metric.Easy to identify the bottleneck at application and database level.

Inconvénients

It adds licenses to be installed as well as the cost brings limitation for use.

Avantages

I like that it is really easy to implement, add AppDynamics agent to your code manifest and it starts to monitor your application. Easy to set up triggers for events which should be monitored.

Inconvénients

Sometimes for same url applications it tends to not find requests between multiple applications, but give it some time and it should work as expected.

Avantages

Appdynamics supports many platforms, and it's set up is relatively easy. It also supports customized monitoring, and allows you to build what you need.

Avantages

Wide breadth of services and function coupled with firs class customer services. They've been in the market for a long time, so there's a firmly established user community.

Inconvénients

Some of the data that I need gets lost on all of the functions. Curse of the blessing, I guess. Otherwise, I have no issues.