--- description: Review of AppDynamics Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: AppDynamics | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Observability Software](/directory/4534/observability/software) > [AppDynamics](/software/433734/appdynamics) # AppDynamics Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/433734/appdynamics Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/433734/appdynamics?page=2) > AppDynamics is an AI-powered application performance management (APM) platform that provides businesses with complete observability over the performance of their IT infrastructure. Unifying full-stack performance monitoring, AppDynamics can turn IT performance into profit by providing insights and visibility over every component, from servers to cloud-native environments. AppDynamics can manage, monitor, and analyze the performance of enterprise business applications with dynamic IT monitoring, application mapping, automatic issue detection, root-cause diagnosis, and real-time performance intelligence. With auto-discovery capabilities, AppDynamic can capture business transactions by tracking every component of any application and visualizing these components in a topology map. For performance monitoring, baselines are automatically created to track the fluctuating patterns of any performance metric. Automatic detection capabilities can identify performance anomalies and notify IT departments before the anomaly becomes an issue. Additionally, AppDynamics can assist IT administrators with resolving issues in live environments by assessing application behavior and performance using business transaction snapshots. With AppDynamics' customizable business intelligence dashboard, Business iQ, non-technical users can view business health and performance to make clear and informed decisions. AppDynamics can be enhanced through integration with a number of industry solutions such as Jira, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and much more. > > Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 41 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 41 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Cisco - **Founded**: 2010 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$6.00 - **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Starting with a 15-day free trial, all AppDynamics product modules are available in AppDynamics Lite – Free Forever, and AppDynamics Pro Editions - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Alerts/Notifications - Analytics - Anomaly Detection - Application Management - Application-Level Analysis - Asset Tracking - Baseline Manager - Big Data Analytics - Bottleneck Identification - Capacity Analytics - Capacity Management - Container Monitoring - Cost Management - Customisable Reports - Dashboard - Dashboard Creation ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) ## Category - [Observability Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4534/observability/software) ## Related Categories - [Observability Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4534/observability/software) - [IT Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4563/it-management/software) - [Cloud Integration Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4676/cloud-management/software) - [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4694/continuous-integration/software) - [IoT Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4273/iot/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Zabbix](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/116379/zabbix) — 4.7/5 (110 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Best in class, Slowness in major concern" — 5.0/5 > **Anuj** | *9 January 2019* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: The functions of projects are great, drill to the issue to root level and this makes it easy to resolve issues. > > **Cons**: Slowness, it takes time to respond and granularity of data reduces with time. ----- ### "Application Monitoring and Management" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *6 February 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Appdynamics, is a great application monitoring and management tool. It can monitor any application, server or database. It provides user traffic details, servers capacity, response time in real time. It helps resolves more than 90 % of server side issues by checking the appdynamics reports as it provides in depth details to the strategy calls. > > **Cons**: Needs a little bit of learning curve to get started and its a little less cost effective > > AppD can monitor all kinds of applications, it provides real time user traffic details on the applications and how much data is being fetched, what is the server capacity, provides over the period statistics about user load which helps us adding extra servers on the busiest days of the weeks helping end customers with more reliable and efficient service with respect to response time. It also provides details on the very minute level which helps with debugging of issues on production and many issues can be resolved without involving L2 or L3 support. It requires a little learning curve in the beginning but it has a very user friendly dash board and things gets easy when you have spent ample amount of time on this application. It is less cost effective but given the use of it, I would highly recommend Appdynamics to other businesses out there. ----- ### "Technical Review" — 3.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *26 January 2025* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like monitoring fuctionality most. For example Database Monitoring, User Experience Monitoring, Performance Monitoring. > > **Cons**: We may need extra training to use it effectively as it is not simple to use. > > Overall I am satisfied with the applications ability to provide insights of our Application from top to bottom means code to database. ----- ### "Monitor application servers using AppDynamics \!" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *16 March 2023* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Best application to monitor the application servers. Continues monitoring helps to understand the application behavior and outage of the application can be well predicted . > > **Cons**: The dashboard layout of the application statistics can be improved for better presentation . > > Best app monitoring application \! ----- ### "Great insights into application performance in real world conditions" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *24 July 2018* | Management Consulting | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: 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 > > **Cons**: 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 > > Proactive management of software performance/ issues in production ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/433734/appdynamics?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/433734/appdynamics) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data