# Which application performance monitoring (APM) do teams actually keep using beyond rollout instead of reverting?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Which Application Performance Monitoring tools do teams actually keep using six months after rollout, instead of quietly reverting to whatever ad hoc process they had before? That gap between adoption and abandonment is common enough in the <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/application-performance-monitoring-apm">Application Performance Monitoring (APM) category</a> to be worth asking about directly.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">What we're hoping to find:</p><ul>
<li>Dashboards engineers actually check during an incident, not just during the sales demo</li>
<li>Alert tuning that doesn't drown teams in noise within the first month</li>
<li>A learning curve short enough that adoption survives past the person who championed the purchase</li>
<li>Reviewer evidence of sustained use, not just initial satisfaction scores</li>
<li>
<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews"><strong>Datadog</strong></a>: Reviewers frequently mention it becoming the default tool engineers reach for during incidents, a sign that habits are actually forming.</li>
<li>
<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews"><strong>Dynatrace</strong></a>: Reviewers cite automated analysis reducing the manual digging that causes some APM tools to fall out of use once the novelty fades.</li>
<li>
<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/splunk-appdynamics/reviews"><strong>Splunk AppDynamics</strong></a>: Reviewers describe strong initial rollout satisfaction, with a few noting that alert tuning takes ongoing attention to keep the tool from becoming background noise.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Has anyone tracked actual login or dashboard-view frequency six months after rollout, rather than relying on how engaged the team felt during onboarding week?</p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

Dynatrace, Datadog, and New Relic are the three that hold up here, all with sustained, heavy review volume over time rather than a burst at launch, which is itself a signal that teams keep using them rather than reverting to older tools or spreadsheets.

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