AppDynamics Lite Edition | AppDynamics Pro Edition

QUICK COMPARISON
Cost	Free – Monitor a single JVM or Windows OS instance	Per JVM (for Java) or Windows OS instance (for .NET). Visit our pricing page.
What you'll get	Firefighting Solution to Diagnose Root Cause in 15 minutes	Application Performance Management for Distributed /SOA Environments
What You'll See	One console for each app server	One console for everything –a single pane of glass
Troubleshooting approach	Troubleshoot transactions a single tier at a time	Troubleshoot and trace transactions across entire distributed application via Dynamic Flow Mapping (patent-pending)
End User Monitoring	Not included	Visibility into Browser, Network and Server latency for business transactions, geographies and browser types.
Transaction visibility	Monitor 30 Transactions	Unlimited
Role Perspectives	Not Included	Multi-dimensional views for DBA, ESB, Messaging, CMS and Security administrators to monitor application performance based on their respective tiers.
Agile Release Analysis	Not Included	Compare agile release differences and their impact on the application's performance.
Data Retention	2 hours of diagnostic data	Years of diagnostic data
Problems diagnosed	Diagnose slow requests, stalls and errors	Plus…memory leaks, SOA remoting issues, thread & synchronization issues
Proactive alerting	Notifications on application, business transaction and server health	Self-learning baselines, advanced heuristics and policy-engine precisely identify incidents
Delivery Model	No management server required	Management server available on premise or SaaS
Diagnostic data capture	Diagnostic sessions started with one click	Diagnostic data automatically captured via Deep-on-Demand Diagnostics (patent-pending)

See Detailed Feature Comparison

	LITE	PRO
Discover
Application Mapping
Auto-Discover Application Tiers	Single Tier	All Tiers
Auto-Discover Back-ends (DB, JMS, WebService, etc)
Dynamically Detect Business Transactions
Organize Business Transactions	limit 30
Monitor
Transaction Flow Monitoring
Business Transaction Performance Monitoring	As Needed	Continuous
Distributed Transaction Flow View	Single Tier	Distributed
Application Dashboards
Business Transaction Dashboards
Tier/Node Health Dashboards
Customizable Dashboard Builder
Historical Data Retention	2 hrs only	Full
Troubleshoot & Diagnose
Deep Diagnostics
Use-Case specific Diagnostics
Slow Response
Errors
SQL/Database issues
Stalls
Distributed/SOA related bottlenecks
Deadlocks
Payload/Input Data related errors
Memory Monitoring & Diagnostics
Memory / GC Behavior Monitoring
Memory Leak Detection
Memory Content Analysis & Accessor Tracking
Object Instance Tracking & Thrash Detection
24/7 Monitoring of Custom Caches
Diagnostic Data Capture
Capture mechanism	User-Initiated	Automatic
Request categorization (normal, slow, stall, error)
Code execution call graphs	Single Tier	Distributed
Correlated Event Data (SQL, Thread Dump, Stack Trace)
Correlated Event Data (Payload, User Data, Hardware)
Incident Remediation Workflow
Alerts & Notifications
Incident Queue
Incident Workbench
Analyze
Policy Engine
Self-Learning Performance Baselines
Performance Pattern Analysis
Set Policies with compound conditions and actions
Agile Release Analysis
Visually display differences between Application and Business Transaction Flows
Compare Application, Business Transaction and Infrastructure KPIs
Analyze and compare Business Transaction Snaphots
Reporting
PDF Reporting
Business Dashboards
Respond
Cloud Orchestration
Define Compute Centers
Custom Cloud Connector API
Setup Application Images
Define Orchestration Workflows
Custom Workflows
Dynamically Scale-Up / Scale-Down
Cloud Bursting
Workflow Execution Management

If you're interested with how we integrate with best-in-class End User Monitoring solutions like BMC/Coradiant EUM, learn more about AppDynamics for BMC Software Solutions.

OUR CUSTOMERS

“AppDynamics gives us the visibility we need to ensure an optimal experience every time.” Giri Nathan
VP of Engineering
“Our MTTR used to be 6 hrs. With AppDynamics, it's now a matter of minutes.” Richard Rothschild
Sr. Director of Engineering
“We were able to isolate major bottlenecks on the first day of using AppDynamics.” Mike Borner
Sr. Systems Engineer
“Easy set up, no overhead, and can be used in production.” Muthu Shanmugam
Solution Architect
“It's a great fit for any team that needs to monitor and track performance of a distributed application.” Daniel Muino
Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Solutions
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Sr. Web System Programmer
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Internet Operations Lead
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Lead Architect
“It would usually take us several hours or days to get to root cause. With AppDynamics, we can usually track down the problem in less than an hour.” Dave Anderson
Senior Systems Engineer
“It could take us an hour or more to pinpoint the system causing the issue. Now it only takes us a few seconds to identify root cause.” Dave Young
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“I never thought I'd say this, but I've actually started looking forward to problems, they're so easy to find and fix.” Kristof Berger
Chief Software Architect
“AppDynamics let us bridge the gap between anecdotes from users and actual, actionable information.” Kevin Kronenbitter
KFS Technical Lead
“AppDynamics is right for anybody that doesn't have a clear picture of what's happening in their large, distributed environment.” John Martin
Sr. Director of Production Engineering