Top APM solutions for mobile app businesses
G2 recently published an article on the best APM tools, but it didn’t cover the top APM solution for mobile app businesses. Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic are the top choices, looking at products on G2’s Application Performance Monitoring tools page. See my entire list below.
1. Dynatrace - Brings AI-driven observability to mobile apps with features like automatic instrumentation, session replay, and behavioral analytics. It shines in enterprise-grade apps with complex backends and high performance demands.
2. AppDynamics - This platform gives mobile developers and business stakeholders a shared lens into user satisfaction. It captures load times, errors, crashes, and network calls. It powers insights tied back to business KPIs like retention or in-app purchases. The platform’s strength lies in its end-to-end visibility, making it especially useful for mobile apps tied closely to revenue flows.
3. New Relic - Popular mobile APM features deliver live usage metrics and crash diagnostics with deep correlation to backend services and cloud resources. It's favored by mobile teams scaling fast who need a unified view of client-side and server-side issues.
4. Instabug - Sets the standard for mobile-first performance monitoring with its real-time crash diagnostics and user-triggered bug reporting.
5. Sentry - Fine-tuned for mobile platforms, it delivers real-time error visibility with detailed stack traces, device context, and user breadcrumbs. It provides SDK support for React Native, Flutter, and more.
6. Datadog - Offers mobile performance insights that connect seamlessly with backend traces, infrastructure logs, and cloud deployments. It’s ideal for mobile apps that rely heavily on real-time APIs and microservices, offering distributed tracing from mobile tap to server response. The platform’s customizable dashboards are a major win for data-driven mobile ops teams.
These APM tools are recognized for their effectiveness in monitoring and optimizing mobile application performance. They offer features that cater to the unique needs of mobile app businesses. What does the G2 community think? What other products should we include in our list?
