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AppDynamics

Composite Score

8.6 /10

CX Score

8.9 /10

99 Reviews Write a Review

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

Jyd Q.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Easy to use solution

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?

The insight data it generates

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The holistic view of the dashboard

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing to dislike

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Compare it with other solutions so you can understand how wonderful the solution is

Pros

Over Delivered
Transparent
Friendly Negotiation
Helps Innovate

Oye N.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Wonderful solution from Cisco

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?

Reduce effort chasing false alerts and managing alert storms, by more targeted alerting, related to customer/user experience. Prioritize genuine service degradation by using complementary synthetic testing with real user data. Reduce defects leaked to production by identifying, and resolving, degraded performance and errors in dev and QA environments, so code bottlenecks and errors are identified, isolated, and resolved before a release gets promoted to production.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Reduce tool cost by consolidating multiple siloed tools used by Operations, Dev, Test and the Business/Digital teams. Reduce capacity cost by optimizing existing hardware to support more users, transactions, and growth, by better understanding. Increase revenue recovery, by measuring every business transaction/KPI/metric, to understand ‘normal’ operations, alert on deviations, then pinpoint and fix application issues that are resulting in reduced revenue - before customer contacts to complain.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing there is to dislike about it

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Best insight, visibility and action solution out there

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Caring
Saves Time

Ullas M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Banking
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Apply Appdynamics and forget. Rest assured.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates AppDynamics from other similar products?

Very unique in terms of monitoring. The data flow diagrams it produces between each of our systems after it’s analysis helps us understand our own architecture more easily.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Data flow architecture diagrams indicating the data flow pathways and continuous monitoring.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Price is on little bit higher end

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Has to improve on the UI UX part a little bit.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity

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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

Jyd Q.

Easy to use solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Oye N.

Wonderful solution from Cisco

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ullas M.

Apply Appdynamics and forget. Rest assured.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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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