Application Performance Management: Which solution is best?

As the use of applications in enterprise continues to increase, accurately managing their performance has become a top priority for many IT and business leaders. To accurately assess the impact of applications and ensure they are effective, many are turning to application performance management tools and the benefits they can offer. However, selecting a solution isn’t always straightforward and there are many areas that businesses must consider.

Over 540,000 professionals have used PeerSpot research to inform their purchasing decisions. Its latest paper looks at the highest rated application performance management vendors, profiling each and examining what they can offer enterprise.

Here’s a breakdown of the key players currently active in the market:

AppDynamics

Average Rating: 7.5

Top Comparison: Dynatrace

Overview: Designed to help businesses spot application issues on the spot so they can get to the root causes of problems, all in real time.

Azure Monitor

Average Rating: 7.7

Top Comparison: Datadog

Overview: Maximizes the availability and performance of enterprise applications by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting, analysing, and acting on telemetry from cloud and on-premises environments.

BMC TrueSight Operations Management

Average Rating: 8.4

Top Comparison: Dynatrace

Overview: Delivers end-to-end performance monitoring and event management. It does so by using machine learning, analytics, and AIOps to identify, analyse, and resolve application and infrastructure problems quickly.

Catchpoint

Average Rating: 8.2

Top Comparison: Dynatrace

Overview: Provides unparalleled visibility and insight, which enables businesses to proactively and rapidly detect and repair problems before they impact the digital user experience.

Datadog

Average Rating: 8.6

Top Comparison: Dynatrace

Overview: Designed to assist administrators, IT teams, and other members of an organisation who are charged with keeping a close eye on their networks.

Dynatrace

Average Rating: 8.8

Top Comparison: AppDynamics

Overview: An entirely automated full-stack solution that provides data and answers about the performance of enterprise applications and gives deep insight into every transaction throughout every application.

Elastic Observability

Average Rating: 7.1

Top Comparison: Dynatrace

Overview: Lets businesses break down silos by bringing together application, infrastructure, and user data into a unified solution for end-to-end observability and alerting.

Grafana

Average Rating: 7.7

Top Comparison: Dynatrace

Overview: Allows businesses to query, visualise, alert on and understand metrics no matter where they are stored.

ITRS Geneos

Average Rating: 8.6

Top Comparison: AppDynamics

Overview: A real-time monitoring tool designed for managing increasingly complex, hybrid and interconnected IT estates.

New Relic APM

Average Rating: 8.5

Top Comparison: Dynatrace

Overview: A leader in observability and a source of truth for all engineers to make decisions with data across their entire software stack and the software life cycle.

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