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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated October 19th, 2026 # Reviews of AppDynamics Ease of use 4.1 Customer Service 4.0 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews PY Philip Y Head of IT OPSArchitecture & Planning, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “My experience with it has been generally positive, especially in terms of real-time monitoring, root cause analysis, and integration with various cloud and on-premises environments.“ February 13, 2025 VJ Vikas J OfficerBanking, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Scenario - I want my URL or API to be send in the app d alert but there is no provisioning , i raised ticket as well, but so far no provision.“ July 4, 2021 AT Alejandra T BU Hybrid IT Regional Sales ManagerComputer & Network Security, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The platform is very useful to obtain and verify SLA for Customer Service when using web and Mobile Applications.“ June 25, 2025 vikram s AssociateBanking, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “It has best GUI , We can easy visualize all things on dashboard.“ March 3, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 44 available reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Sean N. Product Engineering Specialist Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Before the customer complains AppDynamics finds the slow transaction" October 26, 2026 5.0 Why is my application currently slow? Without a war room, it identifies all business transactions in real-time and monitors them as they go through the entire system. If a transaction has a significant deviation from its typical performance patterns, it will identify the layer of the system causing the issue, therefore eliminating finger pointing among developers. This is one of very few solutions that support legacy applications along side cloud-based applications without requiring us to split our brains across five separate dashboards. Pros I rely most heavily on the automatic baseline feature and what i love about this is that it establishes a normal behavior pattern for each application then alerts when there are deviations from those norms rather than relying on me to set arbitrary thresholds on 50+ metrics and cross my fingers. I can tell if the slowness comes from the database or an additional downstream call from the same view. That was far easier than the old days where i would ssh into individual servers and guess. Cons Cost; $ per vcpu. After installing agents and add-on's on all of our systems, someone above me asked why our monitoring costs were so high (the equivalent of a developer salary). The user interface also took time to get accustomed to. There are many different options/menus and the new cloud based features seem to be tacked on to the original java-based application performance monitoring software that they have been doing for years. Constantly adjusting alert settings is required otherwise, the tool will become overwhelmed with alerts. Review Source Erika R. Operador de sistemas informaticos Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Potente herramienta para monitorear" September 27, 2026 4.0 Mi experiencia ha sido buena. Me resulta una herramienta bastante completa para revisar el estado de las aplicaciones y detectar problemas antes de que se conviertan en algo mayor. Al comienzo requieres una cierta capacitaciòn y mas tiempo para entender las funciones y configurarla pero ya luego te adaptas Pros Lo que mas me gusta es que me permite tener una visiòn bastante clara de lo que està pasando con las aplicaciones. Cuando aparece algùn problema, resulta ùtil para revisar el comportamiento y encontrar pistas sobre d\`pnde puede estar el inconvniente Cons Es que en algunas partes pueden resultar un poco complejas al principio, especialmente cuando hay que revisar varias opciones para llegar al origen de un problema. Tambien el coste puede ser elevado para lo que se necesita en algunos entornos Review Source software Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Application Monitoring and Performance Visibility" August 31, 2026 5.0 Overall, my experience with AppDynamics has been positive. It provides valuable insights into application health and performance and helps teams identify and resolve issues before they significantly impact users. The platform is feature-rich and well suited for organizations managing complex, distributed applications. Pros AppDynamics provides strong end-to-end visibility into application performance, infrastructure, and user experience. The dashboards and real-time monitoring make it easier to identify performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues quickly. Its alerting and analytics capabilities are particularly useful for proactive monitoring. Cons The platform can take some time to configure and learn, especially for more advanced monitoring and customization. Managing large environments can also generate a significant amount of monitoring data, requiring thoughtful configuration of alerts and dashboards. Review Source Monitoring DevOps Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Losing the shine" January 5, 2026 3.0 AppD used to be our niche Observability platform for on-prem and traditional tech stacks. But with the advancements around SaaS, cloud native and GenAI based applications, we have found AppD lagging behind as compared to other popular monitoring platforms. Pros The Application flow map in AppDynamics showing live business interactions between applications tiers is simply outstanding. No hidden costs and does what says on the tin for the procured licenses. Robust monitoring for traditional tech stacks. Cons Slow product development pipeline, it takes ages for Cisco to come up with modules for enabling monitoring for modern SaaS and cloud native applications. No tagging support. Loose integration with AIOPS platforms. Review Source DBA and IT Monitoring Analyst Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Easy-to-use and powerful monitoring tool" December 24, 2025 4.0 Overall AppDynamics is very helpful in tracing all the transactions of your application, in creating astounding dashboard with various metrics and in reducing your MTTR when there are issues. Pros Great tool to monitor applications, very powerful in tracing transactions and monitoring all the most important metrics. Cons Can be sometimes difficult to write custom queries for specific in-depth analysis, because it uses its own query language. Some features are quite pricey. Alternatives considered [Datadog](https://www.capterra.com/p/135453/Datadog-Cloud-Monitoring/)[Splunk Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/94317/Splunk/) Reasons for choosing AppDynamics AppDynamics seemed to satisfy all our requirements. Review Source Chief Technology Officer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Expensive but will save me time this weekend" December 5, 2025 4.0 AppDynamics allows us to determine why the micro services are failing before we get bombarded by customer complaints on Twitter. It follows the path of the request so I don't have to sift through millions of log files. Pros I thought the tall would bring all of our legacy systems down but it did not. I like that our tech support group receive email back without needing to press the answer on this but it is also a plus if the agent can identify themselves and I don't have to do it. Cons My biggest complaint with the cost is that my manager is constantly complaining about the bill we get each month. I specifically complain about the alerting profiles where if I want to remove an individual object from a zone I can't just unselect it. I have to select every other object individually which is tedious and inane. Review Source Senior Solution Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "AppDynamics - why to choose it" May 30, 2022 4.0 I was able to keep monitoring the performance of a complex ecosystem. Thanks to the product I have a clear vision of the full architecture including the communication/flow between different services part of the solution. With the alert notification, I am able to keep monitoring the performance of the system (I can immediately understand if something is going bad after a delivery for example) and the error. Moreover I can check the status of the servers running the solution. Pros The possibility to go into detail in case of error. You can arrive to the line of code having the issue. At the same time, in case of bad performance, you are able to know what was happening at that moment. I would add also the alert section, it helps you to trigger alarm when it is needed. That may be fantastic for the team managing the operation / support h24. This team may be also helped by the dashboard that the users of AppDyn can create. Cons Setup of the Agent - there are other products doing better this part (the concept of OneAgent available for example in Dynatrace). Setup complex in case of SAP ecosystem. Real User Monitoring - the products specialized on this topic (doing only this) are better than AppDynamics. At the same time, with AppDyn you can have the monitoring end to end (from the final users to the specific server) Alternatives considered [Dynatrace](https://www.capterra.com/p/81932/Dynatrace/)[New Relic](https://www.capterra.com/p/118128/New-Relic/) Reasons for choosing AppDynamics The set of features leads the decision. This was the main driver, AppDynamics is one of the best solutions in the market. Review Source peter A. IT Asset and Configuration Analyst, Service Catalog and Knowledge Manager Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "The WoW moment of AppDy" December 21, 2022 5.0 Appdynamics was wonderful and the wow moment in our environment Pros Appdynamics is a great 360 view tool to use for any application environment. I like the application, server and even the network flow monitoring of the application. My best part of the application feature is it drill down capability in determine root cause of an issue. Cons The setup is not ease and requires a lot of expertise. I also do not like the the fact that every component is billed or must purchase license to use. Reasons for choosing AppDynamics We chose Appdynamics over Dynatrace as it promised to give as a 360 view of our environment Review Source Rana N. Associate Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Best tool Monitor Application Performance and troubleshooting the Application issues" March 6, 2023 4.0 AppDynamics is best application performance monitoring tool. It has best GUI , We can easy visualize all things on dashboard. We can monitor cpu utilization, memory utilization and Disk I/O. Pros It is very easy to install and integrate with application. It will monitor application API, database and server. We can set alert and email notifications. Also we can trigger script or specific action based on requirements. It is best monitoring tool available in market. It will help to troubleshoot application issue. We can collect all thread dump and analyze to find put application performance issue. Cons I haven't found any issue yet. It is working preety well. Review Source Assistant Consultant Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "One of the best Application performance monitoring tools" May 7, 2020 4.0 Awesome product to analyse transactions Pros Easy to drill down to ground zero, helps in faster triage of transaction failures. Cons A little complex for novice users. Too many steps to follow Alternatives considered [Dynatrace](https://www.capterra.com/p/81932/Dynatrace/) Reasons for choosing AppDynamics AppDynamics features Review Source Performance Test Consultant Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "This tool is amazing in terms of performance bottleneck analysis and user friendliness" October 18, 2017 5.0 Integration with load runner Pros The good thing about the tools is its integration with the load runner tool for performance testing We can get the exact method and class names from the code which helps in finding the bottleneck Cons Some flex calls cannot be captured with the appdynamics so cannot be used for the flex coded developed applications. Extra license cost for the database monitoring can be more structured Review Source Anuj S. Performance Test Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Best in class, Slowness in major concern" January 10, 2019 5.0 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. Review Source Patricia R. Technology Integration Specialist Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Great Tool For Monitoring My Applications" July 13, 2020 5.0 As I have started developing our own systems and web applications internally, it has become essential that I have consistently capable tools for monitoring the effectiveness and engagement of my apps. AppDynamics has provided that capability and much more. Pros Wide breadth of services and function coupled with firs class customer services. They've been in the market for a long time, so there's a firmly established user community. Cons Some of the data that I need gets lost on all of the functions. Curse of the blessing, I guess. Otherwise, I have no issues. Review Source engineer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "appdynamics pros and cons" November 16, 2023 5.0 Pros AppDynamics provides support for various platforms and offers a relatively straightforward setup process. Additionally, it provides support for personalized monitoring and enables you to effortlessly deploy the necessary components. AppDynamics boasts an intuitive interface and user-friendly charts and graphs that are readily accessible to individuals without technical expertise. Cons it seems that you do not currently have the privilege to import AppDBs in order to capture specific items. Review Source Lead Adminstrator Lead Adminstrator Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Its a great tool to capture the performance" June 27, 2017 5.0 performance metrics, alerting and notifications Pros auto detection of environment connectivity, I don't have to do anything to configure my connection patterns which is amazing Cons none as of now, the only thing I could think is the cost, other than that we should check on integration with ticketing tools Review Source Reviewer ### "Fantastic Tool" February 10, 2017 5.0 Pretty new to this tool, but its already impressed me with the auto detection of nodes. still exploring for more options.. but this tool could be one stop for all monitoring Review Source Principal Software Engineer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "AppDynamics is the best at testing your App's UI Responsiveness" November 13, 2025 4.0 I use it for testing my app, to get a handle on what the end user experience will be. Must avoid end user getting frustrated by waiting to long for results, want highly responsive user interface. Pros It's the best at monitoring end to end performance of your app, and therefore it can identify problem locations no matter what part of the stack they pop up in. Cons It can take a large investment of time to setup, many pieces are complex and difficult to understand. The price is steep compared to the competition. Review Source BU Hybrid IT Regional Sales Manager Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "A very useful tool to manage and determine Apps performance" June 26, 2025 5.0 The platform is very useful to obtain and verify SLA for Customer Service when using web and Mobile Applications. Pros With this software we can have a full evaluation of Applications Performance and quickly determine and fix problems, having an end-to-end trace. Cons At first, we rely on our people for troubleshooting, and we had delays. Now, we are using an experienced partner and everything works really fine. Review Source Tech Lead Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Technical Review" January 27, 2025 3.0 Overall I am satisfied with the applications ability to provide insights of our Application from top to bottom means code to database. 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. Review Source PY Philip Y. Head of IT OPS Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "a robust application performance monitoring tool" February 17, 2025 5.0 My experience with it has been generally positive, especially in terms of real-time monitoring, root cause analysis, and integration with various cloud and on-premises environments. Pros Cloud app service monitoring and SQL DB performance troubleshooting feature Cons Initial deployment and fine-tuning can be time-consuming, especially in large or hybrid environments. Review Source Sr Software Development in Test and Performance Test Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Great tool to view node wise details while performing the performance testing" January 15, 2025 4.0 It’s a great tool to view each node cpu, memory utilization and remaining details on each calls while performing the performance testing Pros In AppDynamics, we can collaborate with AWS related resources to view in detail usage of memory, cpu of each nodes Cons Little bit when we are setting up AppDynamics connection initially Review Source Officer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Emerging and must deploy tool in the APM world" July 13, 2021 5.0 Fantastic , no one say no to this tool, must deploy tool Pros Real time instrumentation with complete drill down analysis for all the transaction our app makes. This tools makes life easy for not only developer, but Performance engineers, PS and ops team . Single tool for everything Cons Customization of alerts and suppression is tricky. No access to get AppD DB for capturing specific things. Scenario - I want my URL or API to be send in the app d alert but there is no provisioning , i raised ticket as well, but so far no provision. By clicking on errorneous BT and opening in appd resulterd in the errorneous API which is sometime time taking process. Alternatives considered [Dynatrace](https://www.capterra.com/p/81932/Dynatrace/) Reasons for choosing AppDynamics Strategic tool from Org Review Source Quality Assurance Analyst Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "AppDynamics - Monitor your traffic" March 16, 2022 5.0 I have been using AppD for little over a year now. It shows a great map of servers and databases, provide your the flow from where the transaction traffic is moving to which side. Provides periodic details on server health, disk usage, memory leak, Network and Disk I/O, CPU utilization etc. It generates logs to very minute level, which makes things hassle free when it comes to RCA an issue. It also keeps you up to date with respect to the top process classes which are consuming CPU and Memory. It is one of the best application monitoring tool. Highly recommended. Pros 1\. Real time monitoring of your servers, databases. 2. Provide in depth details on which process classes are consuming the memory. 3. Continuous alerts on servers and data bases. 4. Transaction trace. 5. Server Health, Disk Usage, Network I/O, Disk I/O. 6. Server logs available to RCA issues. 7. Transaction and Traffic reports can be customized as per need basis. 8. Best part is the Map Flow. Cons Nothing much to add except the cost. Its a little expensive. Review Source Assistant Consultant Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Application Monitoring and Management" February 10, 2022 5.0 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. 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 Review Source Senior Data Engineer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Monitor application servers using AppDynamics !" March 17, 2023 5.0 Best app monitoring application ! 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 . 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