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Application Performance Monitoring Solutions Directory

Below is a directory of Application Performance Monitoring vendors, tools and software solutions including a company overview, links to social media and contact information for the Top Application Performance Monitoring providers. If you would like a printed version of this page including solutions profiles and a list of the top questions to ask in an RFP – Request for Proposal, click here for a Free PDF.

Solutions Overview

The AppDynamics platform is an application performance monitoring suite that helps users create better digital experiences for customers and employees. The suite of applications, built on an enterprise-grade platform, acc...

The AppDynamics platform is an application performance monitoring suite that helps users create better digital experiences for customers and employees. The suite of applications, built on an enterprise-grade platform, accelerates digital transformations to drive customer engagement and operational efficiency. AppDynamics’ APM capabilities provide visibility into every line of code and important transactions across multi-cloud environments. Other features include end-user monitoring, infrastructure visibility, and business performance monitoring.

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Acquired by Cisco in 2017, AppDynamics has been consistently ranked as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring for eight years running. Gartner researchers noted that end-users ranked AppDyanmics’ business analysis capability, delivered through the Business iQ solution, the highest of all APM competitors. Some users have reported issues with documentation, and user experience is not always ranked highly among its consumer base.

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AppNeta Performance Manager allows IT teams to monitor end-user experience across their cloud, network, and applications. The vendor delivers visibility into business-critical applications and networks as experienced from...

AppNeta Performance Manager allows IT teams to monitor end-user experience across their cloud, network, and applications. The vendor delivers visibility into business-critical applications and networks as experienced from remote offices. Its platform works on a four-dimensional monitoring system that examines network paths, network packets, web applications, and network flows. AppNeta’s APM technology has 2,000 built-in applications as part of its monitoring solution and the ability to add custom application definitions as needed.

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AppNeta’s monitoring module continuously checks for latency, data loss, and other characteristics across networks, services, and web applications. Additional features, such as virtual network interfaces and automated discovery and diagnosis, may be of interest to prospective buyers. AppNeta focuses on end-user satisfaction, though analyst house Gartner, Inc. notes that end-user experience monitoring only extends to voice/video tests and synthetic transactions.

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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is an application monitoring tool that improves app performance and user experience. The vendor supports cloud-native application and infrastructure environments, AIOps-drive...

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is an application monitoring tool that improves app performance and user experience. The vendor supports cloud-native application and infrastructure environments, AIOps-driven analytics, open monitoring standards, and data collection from other platforms through its application performance management solution. After its acquisition of CA Technologies in 2018, Broadcom offers infrastructure, network, end-user experience, business transaction, cloud, and mainframe monitoring.

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In November 2018, Broadcom completed its acquisition of CA Technologies, bringing its expansive portfolio (including its DX Application Performance Management platform) into the fold. CA Technologies has a long track record of success in the monitoring marketplace even before the Broadcom deal. However, some users have reported that DX Application Performance Management’s reporting and graphing features are not always satisfactory.

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Datadog is an infrastructure and application monitoring platform that provides full observability for modern applications. The platform collects, searches, and analyzes traces across fully distributed architectures. Datad...

Datadog is an infrastructure and application monitoring platform that provides full observability for modern applications. The platform collects, searches, and analyzes traces across fully distributed architectures. Datadog users can quickly find traces that match a particular user, customer, error code, endpoint, service, or custom tag. The company’s APM solution supports live root-cause analysis to reduce resolution time and help teams release features more quickly. Datadog also offers solutions for network monitoring, incident management, and security monitoring.

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Datadog has seen significant growth over the past few years, going public in September 2019 and making two major acquisitions (the SaaS-based security platform Sqreen and the observability data pipeline developer Timber Technologies) in 2021. The vendor features an extensive library of integrations, including AWS, SNMP, Azure, and Oracle. Gartner Peer Reviews and G2 Crowd users note that the solution is harder to use than comparable platforms.

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Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform is an all-in-one monitoring platform that combines network, application, and infrastructure monitoring with AIOps, digital experience management, and digital business analytics. Th...

Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform is an all-in-one monitoring platform that combines network, application, and infrastructure monitoring with AIOps, digital experience management, and digital business analytics. The platform automatically discovers and monitors microservices running inside containers; users can see how they’re performing and immediately detect poorly performing microservices. Dynatrace’s PurePath Technology automatically captures timing and code-level context for transactions across every tier.

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Dynatrace provides end-user-focused application monitoring, giving organizations the ability to easily detect problems before they spread. Its APM capabilities are augmented by network monitoring features, which provide code-level visibility and root cause insights. While some users have reported limited UI options and lackluster flexibility, the use of drill-down options like PurePath allows IT teams and professionals to quickly identify issues and provide initial problem analysis.

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ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations is an application and network performance monitoring solution that delivers complete visibility, real-time detection, and intelligent response. The solution provides real-time visibili...

ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations is an application and network performance monitoring solution that delivers complete visibility, real-time detection, and intelligent response. The solution provides real-time visibility into everything from database to cloud traffic by securely decoding over 70 enterprise protocols, including SSL/TLS-encrypted sessions, at line rate. The platform automatically discovers and classifies all assets and detects performance anomalies with machine learning trained on over 7,000 wire data metrics.

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ExtraHop Reveal(x) provides network-derived business intelligence data, letting IT users get closer to the lines of business with greatly improved application visibility. Customers have noted that Reveal(x) is more difficult to navigate than other comparable products. However, because ExtraHop relies extensively on machine learning to provide analytics and reporting, it is a flexible tool that can cover various application performance issues.

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Flowmon APM is an application performance monitoring solution that helps users deal with availability issues, slow response times, and performance bottlenecks. The agentless solution allows administrators to drive user ex...

Flowmon APM is an application performance monitoring solution that helps users deal with availability issues, slow response times, and performance bottlenecks. The agentless solution allows administrators to drive user experience and application value proactively. Flowmon monitors business-critical applications from the end-user perspective, so you always know how they stack up. Also, the platform provides hard data for capacity planning and infrastructure upgrading, giving real insights into infrastructure utilization.

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Flowmon is a highly scalable solution with competitive pricing, giving network managers and administrators the ability to set up the solution quickly and with no extra skills. While some users reported confusion with the tool’s UI and search functionality, Flowmon offers monitoring and visibility solutions for various personas and levels of business. Kemp acquired Flowmon in November 2020, merging its app security features with Flowmon’s suite of monitoring tools.

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The Infovista 5View suite is a performance monitoring solution that helps users deliver flawless user experiences through business applications. The tool provides detailed network and application performance, usage, avail...

The Infovista 5View suite is a performance monitoring solution that helps users deliver flawless user experiences through business applications. The tool provides detailed network and application performance, usage, availability, and response time metrics, giving your IT organizations and CSPs the ability to analyze and know the factors that impact network and application quality. The 5View suite delivers total application visibility, proactive alarms, and LAN / WAN / Server performance quick analysis for each flow and each user.

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InfoVista’s IT system monitoring solutions are highly scalable and provide visibility and performance analytics quickly. A subset of users reports a longer-than-normal implementation process and recommend that the vendor’s products be integrated as part of an ecosystem of other tools. However, 5View Applications is a powerful product and looks to be a good fit for organizations looking to enhance their application monitoring infrastructure.

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Instana is an application performance monitoring solution that includes fully automated APM in addition to service, infrastructure, container, and website management. The tool delivers continuous full-stack observability ...

Instana is an application performance monitoring solution that includes fully automated APM in addition to service, infrastructure, container, and website management. The tool delivers continuous full-stack observability of all server and application components and automatic distributed tracking for complete visibility. It can be delivered as a SaaS or as an on-premises deployment. Instana provides application perspectives that logically group app components, services, and transaction requests together for analysis, visualization, and alerting via UI configurations.

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Instana has been delivering core APM capabilities since 2016. Gartner highlighted Instana’s strong native support for open-source technologies but also noted that features beyond APM (such as log management) aren’t fully formed yet. IBM closed its acquisition of Instana in December 2020, boosting its ability to observe and monitor high-impact applications in the cloud; it is assumed that Instana’s toolset will replace IBM’s APM solutions.

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LogicMonitor is an agentless SaaS-based monitoring solution that monitors business-critical applications’ performance and availability from a unified platform. The platform provides full-stack application insights and tra...

LogicMonitor is an agentless SaaS-based monitoring solution that monitors business-critical applications’ performance and availability from a unified platform. The platform provides full-stack application insights and tracks app availability and performance alongside an entire IT infrastructure. With LogicMonitor, users can track the availability of multi-step transactions and flows on websites and apps, gaining deeper insights into modern service architectures and tracking the performance of containerized applications.

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LogicMonitor is an enterprise-grade solution with a flexible web portal. The product includes custom dashboards, configurable alerts, and user-defined network reports. Due to the extensive customization options, this solution provides complex application and network monitoring services to customers. Users have reported being impressed with LogicMonitor’s visibility capabilities and scale, though some also report slow feature updates and challenges in adopting the service.

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ManageEngine Applications Manager is an application and server performance monitoring solution that provides total visibility from the URL to the line of code. The product features integrated application performance monit...

ManageEngine Applications Manager is an application and server performance monitoring solution that provides total visibility from the URL to the line of code. The product features integrated application performance monitoring for all server and application monitoring needs, from server and infrastructure components that support a business to business-critical applications responsible for service delivery. Applications Manager supports over 100 popular technologies across cloud applications, application servers, web services, and more.

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ManageEngine provides an impressive selection of monitoring tools for IT generalists and specialists alike, including Application Manager. The company offers solutions for network monitoring, application performance management, and infrastructure management. Users report simple integration and configuration for the solution as well. However, there are several missing features that are present in similar solutions, most notably for clipped management.

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NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is a network and application performance monitoring platform that offers full visibility into infrastructure, interdependencies, and applications. The tool utilizes adaptive service intelligence techno...

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is a network and application performance monitoring platform that offers full visibility into infrastructure, interdependencies, and applications. The tool utilizes adaptive service intelligence technology to allow for continuous monitoring and analysis of network and application traffic data. nGeniusONE users can test wired and wireless network performance to stay ahead of performance problems pre-and-post-deployment. NETSCOUT can analyze wire-traffic, NetFlow, and MIB2 data in the same solution.

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NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is especially suited for packet-level analysis and generating performance monitoring reports. The product also includes a universal monitor that features clear insight into your network’s performance. Some buyers express concern with this product’s cost, and ease of use is not a strength of the offering. However, NETSCOUT remains an interesting option for organizations that don’t require real-time application performance evaluation.

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New Relic One is an observability platform that offers users numerous performance observability capabilities, including application performance. The solution’s Telemetry Data Platform acts as the single source of truth fo...

New Relic One is an observability platform that offers users numerous performance observability capabilities, including application performance. The solution’s Telemetry Data Platform acts as the single source of truth for businesses, ingesting and storing operational data in one place with real-time alerting and the ability to build custom applications. Users can also monitor distributed services, applications, and serverless functions, no matter how or where they’re developed, as well as fully understand their digital customer experiences.

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Launching in 2008 with the first SaaS-only application performance monitoring model, New Relic has continued to upgrade its cloud-native support for monitoring serverless functions. Customers give New Relic high praise for the overall experience, contract negotiation, service, and support. Gartner noted that New Relic One relies on multiple agents for its monitoring depending on the language and architecture, adding complexity compared to single-agent solutions.

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Plixer FlowPro is a network sensor that delivers application performance monitoring capabilities. The platform provides insights into application performance and security. Just from using a single probe, your network oper...

Plixer FlowPro is a network sensor that delivers application performance monitoring capabilities. The platform provides insights into application performance and security. Just from using a single probe, your network operations team can efficiently manage and optimize the network, while your security operation team can simultaneously lower risk, gain data context, and respond quickly to security incidents. FlowPro allows users to monitor performance with Layer 7 precision, including real-time applications like video and voice.

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Plixer’s solutions are vendor-agnostic and handle flows like sFlow, Netflow, JFlow, and IPFIX. The solution suite is scalable, with easy integration for existing network environments. Plixer primarily focuses on tools for large enterprises, so proper scaling for smaller companies might be a bit less reliable. Nonetheless, the vendor features notable partner integrations with other network monitoring vendors, network hardware providers, and applications.

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Riverbed AppResponse is a network-based application performance monitoring solution that delivers full-stack application analysis from packets to pages. The platform delivers actionable insights on packet data and rich ap...

Riverbed AppResponse is a network-based application performance monitoring solution that delivers full-stack application analysis from packets to pages. The platform delivers actionable insights on packet data and rich app analysis, including network forensics, application metrics, end-user experience monitoring, web transaction analysis, and database analysis. Using powerful network and application analytics and flexible workflows, AppResponse speeds problem diagnosis and resolution, helping users get to the answers they need fast.

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Riverbed provides high visibility across a network, no matter how large it is. Users noted the powerful APM capabilities, so developers gain the added bonus of examining the performance of their applications as they see fit. While users that act strictly on the operational level may find the solution’s system unfit for their architecture, companies that develop applications would be wise to consider Riverbed.

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Splunk APM is an IT operations and application performance monitoring solution designed to predict and prevent application performance problems. The platform provides a view of the high-level health and performance of app...

Splunk APM is an IT operations and application performance monitoring solution designed to predict and prevent application performance problems. The platform provides a view of the high-level health and performance of applications and services. It also lets users dive deep into performance investigations to help predict outages and find the root cause of a problem faster. The tool’s machine learning capabilities can detect patterns to help baseline and automatically adapt behaviors for better monitoring and incident prediction.

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Splunk’s suite of monitoring tools bridges the gap between traditional and cloud-native IT resources. The vendor’s acquisition of SignalFx and Omnition in 2019 helps the company deliver an application performance and observability solution for modern cloud-native environments, as well as topology visualization based on trace data. However, Gartner noted that end-users rate Splunk’s business analyst capabilities lower than most APM vendors.