AppDynamics Serverless APM for AWS Lambda
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Not a typical APM tool
What do you like best about the product?
We are using appdynamics as part of a POC. Our current tool is CA APM, which has a unusable UI/UX, and overall difficult tool to use when there is a war room scenario. I like AppDynamics because it has a very clean UI/UX including Flow Map, displays end to end transaction visibility, and very easy to configure. Additionally, the ability to compare releases (focusing on "shift left" mentality), runbook automation, and nifty dashboards that take advantage of detailed telemetry is what makes it a must have tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their current UI still leverages flash technology under the hood.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Every time, a client complains of slowness in the app, we do not have enough telemetry to point to the real/underlying issue. this is a risk from client reputation standpoint, as it potentially violates SLAs. We want to use a tool like AppDynamics which not only helps us understand where the potential issue is, but lets us know before app performance starts to degrade. With AppDynamics, we were able to get notifications before the application perf started to degrade beyond a certain threshold, and we were able to mitigate it most of the times.
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What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, provides various important server metrics like heap usage, garbage collection pause time etc which is really helpful to dig out any performance related issues
What do you dislike about the product?
The granularity of the data goes down as the time passes and the metrics are not much useful as it just shows the aggregated information over period of time. Like if you want to pull a data for test that is 3 days old, App d would just consider 1 data point for for 1 hr duration
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To find out the root cause of performance issues.
AppDynamics is Taking APM to the Board Room
What do you like best about the product?
AppD allows our organization to drive fundamental changes throughout our organization. We're better understanding how we and our customers utilize and drive revenue, and ultimately digital transformation through their apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is little to dislike. The one aspect of AppD that I would request is to increase the speed of integration. The more tools, platform, and data sources that AppD can pick up, the better and richer the data becomes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ultimately we got started with AppD because MTTR was affecting our customers. We're now moving into helping our customers understand their operation even more; how their customers purchase, how revenue is affected by outages, and ultimately, how we leverage AI to better anticipate outages and changes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Explain the true business value of the product not just the tech benefits.
App Dynamics saved us time
What do you like best about the product?
App Dynamics help us identify slow traffic on our mobile app down to the node that was causing the issue. We re also able to create dashboards to use that help us translate performance to the business so they have a picture of what is happening.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can honestly say there is noting I dislike about App Dynamics. Every day it helps us learn more and become proactive as opposed to reactive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We recently had an issue where customers on our mobile app where having a poor user experience. With App Dynamics, we were able to see the transaction that was causing latency and trace it back to a DB issue. Without that, we would have to search for hours instead of minutes.
Secure and easy to setup
What do you like best about the product?
The diagram of the whole application and its connections
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn’t notify you if the agent stop working..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitor all my applications( Prod and nonprod) and gives you a good overview of what is going on. Also, regarding security it provides the stack trace but doesn’t show application logs which means it won’t show any confidential data so that’s really good.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it, it gives you a nice overview and if you want to look it deeper you can go ahead.
AppDynamics is a very useful program
What do you like best about the product?
AppDynamics is a very good tool and we use the APM to monitor a large part of our systems' performance. Being able to customize the dashboard was a plus and allowed me to configure it the way I prefer.
We like AppDynamics for its highly configurable solution and its ability to be compatible with major technology stacks, which is beneficial for us.
Very satisfied with the technical support provided by AppDynamics as they are responsive and knowledgeable. Their frequent updates and fixes are also excellent, showing that they listen to users.
We like AppDynamics for its highly configurable solution and its ability to be compatible with major technology stacks, which is beneficial for us.
Very satisfied with the technical support provided by AppDynamics as they are responsive and knowledgeable. Their frequent updates and fixes are also excellent, showing that they listen to users.
What do you dislike about the product?
Despite the easy implementation of AppDynamics and the sufficient documentation available, the documentation is sometimes confusing and requires time to understand it.
AppDynamics is also very expensive.
AppDynamics is also very expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By using AppDynamics, we can monitor our systems and conduct various stress tests to sift through the bottleneck and rectify them to improve our efficiency.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make the most of the free trial version and its technical support to fully understand how it can benefit your company. However, if you are looking for a budget solution, it would be better to look for something else.
Excellent Cloud monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
Enterprise level monitoring with Cloud capabilities including AWS and Azure
What do you dislike about the product?
Needs planning with multiple teams to implement the solution, is a large project for first time implementation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enterprise level Cloud monitoring
Great monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to see quickly what is going on for any set of servers is crucial to supporting our applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a lot of things that can be configured to improve the monitoring. It is hard to know how deep we need to go to get the most out of the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Improved application performance by being able to see where the code and database issues are. We have used AppDynamics many times in diagnosing specific performance problems and resolved them due to the output it provides. Seeing problem trends before they become user problems is another benefit we've been able to realize.
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What do you like best about the product?
I like that the software is user friendly and that its easy to connect to business applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing that I dislike is that the software doesn't create an excell or word document report.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The company is using the software to track and detect errors and issues with business transactions. The software has been beneficial in helping the company solve errors before deploying into production.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do your research on the product to weigh the pros and cons based on your company
Great tool for monitoring and maintaining SLA
What do you like best about the product?
AppDynamics is a great monitoring tool and the alerts and dashboards helps us monitor our servers and helps filter response codes, even business team with minimal technical knowledge can open the dashboards and see our application performance, besides that it will send alerts to our mailing group which are very useful. The toplogy created by communication amongst our servers/Databases helps to understand the traffic flow.
The drilldown capability helps track down the nodes levels and see the JVM errors/exceptions.
The drilldown capability helps track down the nodes levels and see the JVM errors/exceptions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning curve and more tutorials need to be created for beginners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps strictly in maintaining SLA's we can identify any issues before customer communciates us to with problem so we can mitigate them
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start using AppDynamics and you will love the capabilities it brings to your organization.
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