AppDynamics vs AppSignal vs New Relic

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AppDynamics

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AppSignal

92
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+ 1
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New Relic

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Pros of AppDynamics
Pros of AppSignal
Pros of New Relic
  • 20
    Deep code visibility
  • 13
    Powerful
  • 8
    Real-Time Visibility
  • 7
    Great visualization
  • 6
    Comprehensive Coverage of Programming Languages
  • 6
    Easy Setup
  • 4
    Deep DB Troubleshooting
  • 2
    Excellent Customer Support
  • 14
    Easy setup
  • 8
    Logs Errors
  • 7
    Tracks performance
  • 6
    Support Elixir
  • 6
    Profiles Ruby Memory Usage
  • 6
    Elixir support out of the box
  • 5
    Great UI
  • 5
    In App Customer support via chat
  • 4
    Affordable, holistic, All-in-One solution for Rails
  • 4
    Custom metrics
  • 4
    GIT Integration
  • 4
    Cheapest option
  • 4
    Anomaly detection
  • 415
    Easy setup
  • 344
    Really powerful
  • 244
    Awesome visualization
  • 194
    Ease of use
  • 151
    Great ui
  • 107
    Free tier
  • 80
    Great tool for insights
  • 66
    Heroku Integration
  • 55
    Market leader
  • 49
    Peace of mind
  • 21
    Push notifications
  • 20
    Email notifications
  • 17
    Heroku Add-on
  • 16
    Error Detection and Alerting
  • 13
    Multiple language support
  • 11
    SQL Analysis
  • 11
    Server Resources Monitoring
  • 9
    Transaction Tracing
  • 8
    Apdex Scores
  • 8
    Azure Add-on
  • 7
    Analysis of CPU, Disk, Memory, and Network
  • 6
    Performance of External Services
  • 6
    Error Analysis
  • 6
    Detailed reports
  • 6
    Application Response Times
  • 6
    Application Availability Monitoring and Alerting
  • 5
    JVM Performance Analyzer (Java)
  • 5
    Most Time Consuming Transactions
  • 4
    Easy to use
  • 4
    Browser Transaction Tracing
  • 4
    Top Database Operations
  • 3
    Pagoda Box integration
  • 3
    Custom Dashboards
  • 3
    Weekly Performance Email
  • 3
    Application Map
  • 2
    Background Jobs Transaction Analysis
  • 2
    App Speed Index
  • 2
    Easy visibility
  • 2
    Easy to setup
  • 1
    Free
  • 1
    Rails integration
  • 1
    Super Expensive
  • 1
    Metric Data Resolution
  • 1
    Metric Data Retention
  • 1
    Team Collaboration Tools
  • 1
    Best of the best, what more can you ask for
  • 1
    Best monitoring on the market
  • 1
    Real User Monitoring Overview
  • 1
    Real User Monitoring Analysis and Breakdown
  • 1
    Time Comparisons
  • 1
    Access to Performance Data API
  • 1
    Worst Transactions by User Dissatisfaction
  • 1
    Incident Detection and Alerting
  • 0
    Exceptions

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Cons of AppDynamics
Cons of AppSignal
Cons of New Relic
  • 5
    Expensive
  • 2
    Poor to non-existent integration with aws services
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      Pricing model doesn't suit microservices
    • 10
      UI isn't great
    • 7
      Expensive
    • 7
      Visualizations aren't very helpful
    • 5
      Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

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    What is AppDynamics?

    AppDynamics develops application performance management (APM) solutions that deliver problem resolution for highly distributed applications through transaction flow monitoring and deep diagnostics.

    What is AppSignal?

    AppSignal gives you and your team alerts and detailed metrics about your Ruby, Node.js or Elixir application. Sensible pricing, no aggressive sales & support by developers.

    What is New Relic?

    The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.

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