Top AppDynamics Alternatives and Competitors
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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.
Common Features
Transaction Request Performance | Code Performance Monitoring | Dependency Tracking | Application Request Tracing | Server Monitoring | Application Metric Reporting | Application Logging | Error Reporting | Real User Monitoring | Scalability | Application Discovery | Automated Diagnostics | Domain-Centric AI/ML | Synthetic Monitoring (RUM) | Non-Commodity Operating Systems | Domain-Agnostic AI/ML | Enterprise Cloud Platform Support | Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment
8.7
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+89
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86
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Best Alternatives and Competitors to AppDynamics
Compare how AppDynamics stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.
Dynatrace
Dynatrace
9.1
Composite
Score
+97
Emotional
Footprint
71
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Compared to AppDynamics, Dynatrace is:
More Caring
More Inspiring
More Innovative
More Transparent
More Efficient
More Reliable
The Dynatrace software intelligence platform monitors web scale application environments down to each individual transaction—with no gaps or blind spots—including front end, application performance, infrastructure, containers, and cloud.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine Applications Manager
8.9
Composite
Score
+94
Emotional
Footprint
51
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Compared to AppDynamics, ManageEngine Applications Manager is:
More Caring
Better at Support
More Transparent
Easier to Customize
More Efficient
Easier to Use
ManageEngine Applications Manager provides deep-dive application performance monitoring with byte-code instrumentation, infrastructure monitoring, and digital experience monitoring from a single console. This allows IT teams to gain holistic visibility into transactions, isolate real-time issues, and deliver flawless end user experiences.
eG Innovations
eG Enterprise
8.8
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Score
+98
Emotional
Footprint
33
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Compared to AppDynamics, eG Enterprise is:
More Transparent
More Caring
More Efficient
More Innovative
More Inspiring
More Reliable
eG Enterprise is a total performance management solution that provides automated monitoring, diagnosis, and reporting to troubleshoot application slowdowns, user experience issues, network outages, virtualization bottlenecks, server failures, storage hotspots, and more. eG Enterprise uses a combination of agent-based and agentless approach to monitor the health and performance of the entire IT infrastructure from application code to bare metal across physical, virtual and cloud, and hybrid IT environments
New Relic, Inc.
New Relic
8.8
Composite
Score
+88
Emotional
Footprint
74
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Compared to AppDynamics, New Relic is:
Easier to Customize
More Innovative
More Efficient
More Inspiring
More Caring
Worse at Integrating
New Relic’s SaaS-based Application Performance Monitoring helps you build, deploy, and maintain great web software.
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Azure Monitor
8.7
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
221
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Reviews Say
Compared to AppDynamics, Microsoft Azure Monitor is:
More Innovative
Easier to Customize
More Inspiring
More Efficient
Less Reliable
Worse at Integrating
Collect, analyse and act on telemetry data from your Azure and on-premises environments. Azure Monitor helps you maximise performance and availability of your applications and proactively identify problems in seconds.
IBM
Instana
8.4
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
Footprint
35
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Compared to AppDynamics, Instana is:
More Transparent
More Inspiring
Easier to Use
Less Respectful
Worse at Training
Worse at Integrating
Monitor any application, service, or request with Instana Application Performance Monitoring.
Netreo
Stackify Retrace
8.3
Composite
Score
+86
Emotional
Footprint
65
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to AppDynamics, Stackify Retrace is:
Better at Support
More Efficient
Less Inspiring
Harder to Use
Less Transparent
Less Innovative
Stackify APM+ moves beyond traditional APM solutions and gives you immediate, real-time code-level visibility allowing developers to easily identity top performance offenders and fix issues before they impact the business performance or customer satisfaction.
Radware
Radware APM
8.0
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
Footprint
24
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Reviews Say
Compared to AppDynamics, Radware APM is:
More Transparent
Easier to Customize
More Efficient
Easier to Implement
Easier to Use
Less Respectful
Radware's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) allows you to detect application performance issues – before your customer does. Application Performance Monitoring ensures Web application performance meets your customer's expectations and consistently delivers their business SLA.
Splunk
Splunk APM
7.9
Composite
Score
+87
Emotional
Footprint
49
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Reviews Say
Compared to AppDynamics, Splunk APM is:
Worse at Integrating
Worse at Training
Less Transparent
Harder to Implement
Less Inspiring
Harder to Use
Splunk ITSI provides a view of the high-level health and performance of applications and services. It also lets you dive deeper in investigations to helps predict outages and find the root cause of a problem faster. With machine learning capabilities, you can detect patterns to help baseline and automatically adapt behaviors for better monitoring and incident prediction.
Datadog
Datadog
7.9
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
21
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Compared to AppDynamics, Datadog is:
More Caring
More Efficient
More Reliable
Less Inspiring
Less Transparent
Harder to Implement
Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization.
OpenText Corporation
OpenText APM
7.5
Composite
Score
+86
Emotional
Footprint
47
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Reviews Say
Compared to AppDynamics, OpenText APM is:
More Efficient
Easier to Customize
More Transparent
Worse at Training
Less Innovative
Worse at Integrating
OpenText™ (formerly Micro Focus APM) Application Performance Management (APM) Solutions allow you to isolate problems real-time for all of your applications whether on-premise, cloud, or mobile. OpenText APM Solutions are also available with a flexible delivery model to best fit your needs. Choose from any combination of on-premise, SaaS, or hybrid to suit your existing platform and business model.
Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Riverbed APM
7.0
Composite
Score
+81
Emotional
Footprint
17
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Compared to AppDynamics, Riverbed APM is:
Easier to Customize
Less Efficient
Less Innovative
Less Respectful
Less Transparent
Worse at Training
The health of the infrastructure supporting your critical applications is essential to application delivery. If your infrastructure fails, your applications do too. To complicate matters, infrastructure itself is not static. It changes frequently, in terms of both configuration and topology.
SolarWinds
SolarWinds AppOptics
6.7
Composite
Score
+77
Emotional
Footprint
67
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Compared to AppDynamics, SolarWinds AppOptics is:
Less Efficient
Less Reliable
Harder to Implement
Less Transparent
Less Inspiring
Less Respectful
Solarwinds AppOptics provides real-time visibility into any application by collecting both high-fidelity metrics and detailed transaction traces.