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AppDynamics

Composite Score

8.6 /10

CX Score

8.9 /10

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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

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Transaction Request Performance

Code Performance Monitoring

Automated Diagnostics

Application Metric Reporting

Application Request Tracing

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Server Monitoring

Error Reporting

Scalability

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

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AppDynamics Reviews

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Other
Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Easy to use, but a bit pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Inspires Innovation

Cons

Less Generous

Noah B.

Role: Operations
Industry: Education
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Provides the fastest notification of app issues.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?

We utilize AppDynamics to monitor infrastructure, apps, databases, real-time online and mobile monitoring, synthetic, analytics, BIQ A, and AiOps to keep our important systems monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week. On the IT side, AppDynamics delivers the quickest warning of an issue (often in less than 5 minutes), furthermore, with flow maps, one may instantly observe whether any cautions or difficulties are beginning or continuing. The AppDynamics call stack information is important for diagnosing bugs in development.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Flow maps are wonderful, and AppDynamics autodiscovery makes it useful quickly after installation. One of the most useful aspects is the ability to express data in many ways. If you are a developer, for example, the granularity of the telemetry data and the metrics it might reflect to a development mentality is a tremendous benefit. However, if you are a businessperson seeking a technical degree of detail, the way critical business data, such as in business transactions, is presented in a comprehensible manner is a major benefit.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Appdynamics is an agent-based monitoring solution for a variety of monitoring domains. In the contemporary world, with a devOps perspective, it is challenging to integrate agent installation with custom configuration in generic devOps pipelines in a multi-tenant environment. There is a rationale for this, and that is to provide renters with personalisation. However, these can only be done during the installation process, not afterwards. As a result, maintaining a generic installation process that covers everything is difficult.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

According to Gartenr Quodrant evaluations, AppDynamics is a market leader in the APM business. Furthermore, based on my personal experience, the benefits you receive as a user are enormous. It is strongly advised that enterprises adopt AppDynamics as their primary monitoring solution. However, be sure you know exactly what you want because adding further features after an agreement has been struck might be costly. Dedicate personnel to installation and administration, and enroll in classes or sign up for consulting time.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Gregory D.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

The best APM, look no further.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?

The breadth of features and the power of the performance analytics.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ability to track and trace errors in the code all the way to the source.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The price!

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Negotiate the price, they can be flexible.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Inspires Innovation
Saves Time

Cons

Vendor Friendly Policies

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

AppDynamics Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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AppDynamics Reviews

Easy to use, but a bit pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Noah B.

Provides the fastest notification of app issues.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Gregory D.

The best APM, look no further.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Transaction Request Performance

Code Performance Monitoring

Automated Diagnostics

Application Metric Reporting

Application Request Tracing

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Server Monitoring

Error Reporting

Scalability

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization