Will AppDynamics (Performance Monitoring Tool) slow down my Production Application?

Question

Is it ok to deploy Performance Monitoring Tool - AppDynamics - in Production? The application to be monitored is a standard Java/J2EE Web Application.

I have never worked with AppDynamics, and my concern is that it may actually slow down my application.

Has anyone used AppDynamics in Production? Or should it be used only in Test kind of enivornments.

Answer 1

Full Disclosure: I currently work for AppDynamics.

AppDynamics was designed from the ground up for high volume production environments but works equally well in both prod and non-prod. It's currently running in production in some of the worlds largest mission critical application environments at Netflix, Exact Target, Edmunds, and many others. Here are a few quotes from existing customers…

"It's like a profiler that you can run in production" -- Leonid Igolnik, Taleo

"We found that the overhead was negligible" -- Jacob Marcus, Care.com

"We wanted a monitoring solution that wouldn't impact our production runway" -- John Martin, Edmunds

AppDynamics overhead is extremely low but I suggest you test it and see for yourself. You can download and use it for free from the AppDynamics website. Good luck in your search for the right APM tool.