AppDynamics Erfahrungen

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.

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.

Great monitoring into web applications and infrastructure and great analytics dashboards.

A bit pricey in comparison to its competitors

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.

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

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

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

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

Setup and configuration are sometimes a pain and usually involves support

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The UI is fairly intuitive making it easy to find what your looking for. Integration is also fairly easy through the use of setup wizards for their agents.

I wish therer was better logging integration and corillation between logs and APM

AppDynamics provides great reports to analyze performance of applications. Dashboards provide simple but effective data to get an idea of the application's behavior.

Price of the AppDynamics is high. But it has many valuable features. This is not for small businesses.