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What are the differences in features between AppDynamics and Zipkin apart from the pricing since zipkin is opensource. Can any of them show request or response, in their console?

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Zipkin only does tracing. APM tools like Appdynamics do other monitoring (browser, mobile, database, server, network). Code-level diagnostics with automated overhead controls and limiters. Don't forget log analytics and transaction analytics. It also collects metrics.

There is a lot more to APM than just tracing, which is what Zipkin does. You could do this with a stack of 20 open source tools, but you'd have to deal with disjointed UIs and data models not to mention the work associated with keeping them all working.

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