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What is AppDynamics?

Powered by Cisco, AppDynamics is on a mission to help companies see their technology through the lens of the business so they can work as one to prioritize what matters most. We’re reinventing the observability space and simplifying the challenge of digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises. In this era of unprecedented digital growth, the AppDynamics Business Observability Platform transforms organizations faster by providing business context deep into the technology stack, aligning teams around shared priorities, and enabling technologists to act with confidence and control. AppDynamics has been recognized by Gartner as a leader in the APM market for more than eight years and was positioned highest in ‘ability to execute’ in Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant Report for APM.

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Product Description

An application performance management solution that monitors every line of code to help resolve application issues, make user experience improvements, and monitor application performance.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Application Performance Management solution monitors your apps and give you the power to ensure flawless customer experiences.

Business iQ is an industry first that translates code-level monitoring into immediate, clear and actionable insights, by correlating application performance, user experience and business outcomes.

End User Monitoring -- Create better customer experiences and quickly solve issues by automatically capturing errors, crashes, network requests, page load details, and other metrics.

Infrastructure Monitoring -- Manage the performance of complex modern architectures with full stack observability.


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Seller
Cisco
Year Founded
1984
HQ Location
San Jose, CA
Twitter
@Cisco
732,578 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
97,323 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ:CSCO
Phone
847-678-6600
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$49,301
Description

Cisco delivers intent-based networking across the branch, WAN, and cloud. We provide end-to-end security, automation, and analytics with award-winning services and support.


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RaviShankar S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Silver Bullet for Enterprise Applications Performance Monitoring"
AppDynamics is a great Application Performance Monitoring Tool used by Global Fortune500 Companies to monitor their mission critical Enterprise App...
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Sudarsan R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Appdynamics is best monitering tool"
Appdynamics is best tool to debug issues. 1.we can check long running queries for all the time you can select specific time and debug what are the...
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Brajesh S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"AppDynamics - A powerful analytics tool for business transactions and monitoring"
AppDynamics is a very versatile tool that is easy to use and integrate with many 3rd party services from SaaS, Cloud services and other data monito...

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What do you like best about AppDynamics?

We can quickly create dashboard to monitor all the resource performance like CPU, Heap, Network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppDynamics?

Sometimes, we are not able to install machine agent as that consumed memory and have some overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

I monitor performance of CPU, Heap, Network for the load test I have to run monthly. I also monitor connection pool, thread pool, major GC, minor GC etc.

I can also easily find out the errors and exceptions observed during the test. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AppDynamics?

It is one of the best tools for monitoring applications(Eg. Java App). Easy to check the error details when an error encountered. Alerts can be configured (Eg. Whenever a particular functionality, payment page takes time to load, immediately mails will be triggered if configured, which helps further to investigate the issue asap). It offers many other functionalities. I can see its one of the great tools available for application monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppDynamics?

Nothing as of now. It has great features, however I should admit the fact that I didn't explore much so I haven't find any cons yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

To check the errors in Production environment. In an enterprise application, it is not possible to monitor the app manually, so with the help of the tool we will be knowing as and when any error occurs which is helpful in resolving issues as and when occured.

Alerts configuration when a page is slow, on configurations we get mails so we will get to know when exactly the app is slow which further helps to improve scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AppDynamics?

Appdynamics dashboard to show real-time metrics and visibility of end to end transactions flow between different layers and byte code instrumentation to see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppDynamics?

Its not able to trace in code level change required for the issue which I noticed in overops tool having.

Alertsite having macros concept in which certain flow can be checked which is missing here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AppDynamics:

Good tool for your APM monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Alerting the team and having action plan in place for immediate resolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AppDynamics?

Its fast, its easy to understand and here is where many competitors fail. No likes to work with a tool that is slow or that we cant explain or navigate in. All layers are included like databases, network, enduser, apllication, logs, docker etc. And it gives results. At Volvocars we almost completely eliminated incidents by working proactivly with Appdynamcs. No other tool proved such value in the warroms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppDynamics?

Nothing. Trying to think hard but cant come up with anything i dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Almost completely eliminated downtime. We didnt have less issues. They all had to be worked out as normal. They didnt stop occuring. But doing it before the incident is the whole point. Finding it in an early stage when problem is small or in dev/qa. Many times we easily optimised applications to be twice as fast. The few incidents we couldnt prevent had a decreased resolutiontime from normal 6hrs to 1 hr in average. Sometimes minutes. Im not working in operations anywhere without appdynamics from now on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AppDynamics?

The Best part is getting everything visualised in graph and easy to understand with the help of the baseline that we define according to the different application and requirement, also those can be changed anytime with the requirement to meet the expectations. Also we can set up the alerts and can configure to receive them from different channels which helps us to know if there is any issue in any application before hand. Other then above in AppDynamics we can build different dashboard according to our requirement which use to be of great use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppDynamics?

The think i would say i don't like in appdynamics is , it don't show the complete logs like the look splunk shows us, for proper log analysis we have to login to servers or use splunk if we have that in place , that is the major area if that can be addressed by Appdynamics it will be super. There can be more scope in improvement with terms to Controller, we have experience were we have faced the issue with AppDynamics controllers and agents and it doesn't show traffic or data, there it create the panic situation for support team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AppDynamics:

One of best Monitoring tool available in the market i would say, i help very much to fulfil the purpose that's the most important so would surely recommend it to others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

We majorly use appdynamics for monitoring infra response, errors, and all related to infra like CPU utilisation thread consumption and all, and it help us to identify and mitigate the issue before hand so it would not impact to our end customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AppDynamics?

Able to look up application performance in detailed manner . It enhanced understanding db leakages . Greate product to us for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppDynamics?

Don't see any flaws . It's doing good . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time taking for Backed database calls . It's accurately giving dashboards to take actions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AppDynamics?

The tool has a wealth of features, though i find the End User Monitoring alongside the BizIQ really powerful and gives great insights as to the customers experience. AppDynamics continue to grow and have some exciting integrations such as the acquisition of ThousandEyes network monitoring. This tool keeps getting better and the support from the Customer success programs has really helped us get ROI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppDynamics?

Not much to say hear. It is a bit pricey but it is a high end product and provides a high level of monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

To have one tool that covers many aspects of monitoring which AppDynamics does flawlessly. The capabilities of AppDynamics have helped us move to a more pro-active monitoring model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AppDynamics?

1) Convenient UI

2) Comprehensive documentation and friendly user groups + support

3) Metrics + Alerts - amazing functionality to keep eye on all applications friction parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppDynamics?

1) Does not allow grouping in Analytics by custom fields

2) Does not store ADQL in Analytics in URL, you can lose your query in case of simple QL grammar error (NewRelic is more duligent for this case)

3) Some anarchy on capturing parameters (may allow to have different UserId and UserID columns which makes hard to group data in future) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

1) Tracking how our applications behave, reacting on issue before we get a call from Customer

2) Collecting different metrics and stat

3) Investigating app abnormal behavior, troubleshooting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AppDynamics?

1. Dashboarding and Reporting with Dash Studio give greater insights

2. Database insight( DB Monitoring) gives an application team a transparency

3. Root cause Analysis /Anomaly detection( SAAS only)

4. Application Flow maps and Transaction Score give a good visibility

5. Custom Schema in Analytics

6. Auto Baseline concept Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppDynamics?

1. Appd doesn't have any roadmap to add AI/ML and many more capabilities to on-premise setup which they already have in SAAS from years.

2. Appd license model is very difficult to understand and then if we want to manage per application, it is very difficult.

3. Appd Synthetic is having many flaws - stability, manage PSA health, support etc, raise my enhancement but no luck

4. Appd DB events are moving to Analytics even it is there in Event service cluster which restrict us in proactive alerting, reporting and analysis.

5. Appd doesn't have any integration or way to analysis threads and provide the root cause at thread level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AppDynamics:

I would recommends to have a business requirement listed down and then select the tool. For my organization use case , Appd suits best as we have done POC with Dynatrace, appd and NEw-Relic , from all the three Appd scored highest.

Use SAAS for better AIOPs feature and being ahead in technology and solutioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Solved various issue in the below direction

a. Faster RCA - provided the visibility the issue is around Infra, Application, DB or user experience

b. Prevent P0,P1 - prevented P0 *P1 by proactive anomaly detection using baseline

c. End user productivity - By increasing end user performance by improving on error and heavy call/methods.

d. Automation - Using the auto remediation and auto thread dump collections

e. KPIs - Earlier their was no way to measure the Service health, now with appd, we have such KPIs.

f. Management Dashboard - With the help of analytics/metric, we can present management related values or cost which help them to take decision faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AppDynamics?

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Visualisation, top to bottom drill down as well as in-depth analysis presented to gain actionable insights.

2.

Immediate realisation of benefits.

3.

Anomaly Detection is at the click of a button, is out of the box. Keep in mind.

4.

Customer support and responsiveness is commendable. Thanks for all the good work so far!

5.

Analytics engine reaps benefits.

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Feature upgrade of SaaS platform is near easy.

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Infrastructure as well as Application integrated together in a single Tool kit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppDynamics?

a.

lack of drill down platform-level administrative features .

b.

Cloud Big Data administration to reduce customer care involvement.

c.

Analytics Engine needs strengthened.

d.

ADQL featurees needs improved.

e.

Capacity Management needs another Administrative feature.

f.

Dashboard administration is not at par with other BigData platforms in the cloud. Needs improvement.

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Too many mini-implementations necessary, i.e. extensions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AppDynamics:

Grab AppDynamics when/if you need to see your code in visually. There is no other product on this planet when it comes to Visualisation.

Have a thorough plan at large.

Make sure AppD is in the road map, for the next +5years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

i.

Monitoring the un-monitored code in real time

ii.

Visualisation,

iii.

Reporting,

iv.

Hoping for a future MTTR realisation...

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Knowing about the anomalies

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Single pane of glass for infra and application monitoring

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Easy API Integration

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BigData insights

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Cloud hosting further reducing the dependency of onPrem infra administrative cycles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.