We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Alluvio Aternity based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dynatrace is the preferred option over Alluvio Aternity due to its more comprehensive features such as real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities, as well as AI capabilities for automating incident alerts and topology visualization. While Alluvio Aternity provides valuable data on machine health and performance, users suggest that it could benefit from more customizable reporting options and detailed performance counters.
"The user experience it provides is the most valuable feature for us."
"The item we use the most and what upper management wants is the SLA reports. It's a good summary of how the applications are performing over time from month to month."
"The most valuable feature for me is being able to monitor the productivity of every employee in the company as well as third-party, outsourced companies that work on our behalf."
"Desktop monitoring, and being able to understand the performance of applications that runs on the desktop."
"The two most valuable features for us are its abilities to validate the customer experience and to measure performance before and after upgrades."
"The detailed level of information you are able to get on the complete environment all of the way down to a specific machine."
"Other features we use heavily are the WiFi analyzer, the Skype for Business analyzer, and the troubleshooting functionalities. We also use the Device Health quite religiously here for troubleshooting devices that are unhealthy, when we're talking about things like high CPU or memory consumption, or file system problems within the users' workstations."
"It is useful for working out whether there are any issues in the network or between the endpoints. It is also useful for working out any performance issues. It has been useful for a lot of stuff around Teams. Our customers like to know what's happening with Teams when they call in. It is helpful for easily profiling users. It records all the applications that are being used for each user, and you can see what users are doing. It is very good in terms of performance. You don't have to wait forever to try and get reports or results. It is quite quick to get everything that you need out of the software."
"I can get everything on a single page."
"I think the design is pretty scalable. It's pretty easy to add additional nodes if we need to. Also, it's easy to migrate changes from one environment to another."
"One of the most valuable features of Dynatrace is that it offers good visibility. It's better than other APM tools. You're not required to use a different technology when you have Dynatrace because it will work whether you're hosting it on Windows or Linux."
"Being able to drill down into the PurePaths to get to a solution is key for us."
"It provides the whole perspective in a single place when trying to guide the right people to go to the right solution at any given point in time."
"We are now able to identify the root cause in 15 minutes. It has helped the entire operations of our company."
"The full stack - Everything from the browser, all the way back to the database, and being able to see everything, and really narrow in very quickly on what is the root cause."
"You get a good insight into what is going on inside your code."
"The thing that I think most companies like ourselves would want would be an easier way to customize custom scripts."
"In terms of a new feature, it would be good if we could restrict a user to a specific application or server. We have several customers, and we have to set up one or two servers for each customer. We have to set up one server for production and one for the test environment. Each user at the customer level can see all applications and the data of all applications, which is not really useful and good. We should be able to restrict user access at the application level or server level."
"Right now, the user information being displayed by Aternity is received from AD. Ideally, we would like to see integration with other sources for user information, like other databases, so we are not limited to AD."
"I would improve the dashboard, the presentation player."
"Its user interface and features should be improved. They don't support new versions of certain Linux editions. That is one of the reasons why we have to move to another solution."
"The other place for improvement, as an on-prem, non-SaaS customer, is that the system administration and management in Aternity are very difficult. They've even told me that most of their support calls come in due to configuration and system administration on their on-prem. Their on-prem solution is not easy to use."
"I would like Alluvio Aternity to be certified by the IRAP for petrol companies in Australia."
"It all comes in pretty nice looking charts and things, but we have a hard time pulling out hard data, which is usually what you'll need if you're trying to be actionable."
"We're developing more and more microservices and, each time, for an AppMon license, you have to deploy it, you have to configure it, you to get charged for it. It's very time-consuming."
"Dashboards are too clumsy, so it is good to keep less on dashboards and be easier to find the sections."
"If you want to see a month's data, it keeps on spinning. Here is an improvement which needs to happen, which is the case with all applications or tools. There is a lot of data, and either we have to change the way we are logging or the application needs to be enhanced."
"The dashboarding in Dynatrace is not very good. We have used other monitoring tools like AppDynamics. We are also using AppDynamics for some of our products. If I compare Dynatrace with those monitoring tools, the dashboarding is not as good. If I have to create a dashboard it takes me time, the experience is not that good."
"I would like Dynatrace to be more flexible and user-friendly."
"It still has a long way to go to reach that single pane of glass."
"The documentation of Dynatrace needs to be improved. There needs to be a more detailed description and additional examples for background understanding for beginners trying to use it."
"I haven't had a chance to go through all of it, but I would like to see the ability, from an administrative standpoint, for it to collect statistics. I want to be able to see the servers that the agents are installed on. I want it to be able to start doing collections for me by platform: How many Linux servers do I have? How many Windows servers do I have? Statistically give me the information of how things are performing, but I want that in a dashboard, where I can look at a dashboard and I can look at a section. So the ability for me to drill down will make it easier for me."
Alluvio Aternity is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 37 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews. Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Nexthink, SysTrack, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Dynatrace report.
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We did a trial of the Dynatrace vs AppDynamics vs New Relic Real User
Monitoring tools and based on this we selected New Relic, mainly because of
their powerful Insights tool that easily allows you to create your own
dashboards / alert using a variant of SQL.
Since we acquired the RUM tool (Browser) we have trialled their APM tool
which we are currently appraising vs our existing CA APM tool (Introscope)
- early signs are encouraging for New Relic.
After 9 months we have found the New Relic tools that we use to be very
useful and they have excellent post implementation support.
Being SAAS only has not been an issue, and for example on Black Friday
their tools did not slowdown at all.
Hello,
Thank you all for the very kind and informative comments.
Some ideas regarding the requirement list.
Looking at a high level, the requirement list will contain:
- This is strategic tool, so go after the big/leading names.
- Easy remote deployment& management.
- Quick learning curve and strong local support.
- Flexible& competitive pricing model.
Technically speaking:
- Client side application level support: Browser based, Mobile Native App., Smart (Fat..) desktop
applications (mainly in Microsoft environment - .Net , C#).
- Client side Operating Systems: Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Win7 and up).
- Server side Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
- Virtualization: Microsoft, VMware,Citrix.
- Various server side applications (DB,ESB, HDFS....).
-Features:
Easy to set thresholds and automatic "trigger to action" capabilities.
Management console that can show information from a different customers in an easy way.
Another question I struggled with:
How do you deal with Information Security issues of remote connection to the client's production environments (both technical and business agreement aspects) ?
Best,
Avi
Avi,
How are you ?
I am Elad and I am the COO at Correlsense.
HQ in Boston and R&D site in Israel we have a very extensive partnership program that we have signed with companies that have the offering you describe here.
Would be happy to talk : eladk@correlsense.com
I am looking forward to talking to you.
Regards,
Hi Avi,
A lot of technical aspects had been discussed, but in my experience the most valued features include>
Multi Tenancy
Service Level Management Module is mandatory which supports service, calendars, offerings, etc.
Another great feature is the monitoring tool, which must support agent and agentless deployment
The thing is:
Measure -> Manage -> Improve
Hi,
What about Correlsense?
Thier APM product is called Sharepath and they are based in Israel.
Good luck
Hi Avi,
I AM biased working for CA Technologies but have you considered us?
We have recently released some highly innovative updates to our APM suite and work with quite a number of MSPs globally - I think you would be pleasantly surprised if we had a chance to take you through our capabilities.
Kind Regards
Paul Casaneanu
CA Technologies
Hi Avi,
My name is Gil and I've been working with APM solutions since 2005 when it just began. In my experience, it is most important for you to define your requirements from the APM platform, besides its pricing, before starting to evaluate solutions.
Let me give you some examples:
- Do you need to provide useful information for developers when there is an application problem and pin point the problem ?
- Do you need to monitor the full end to end user experience of global customers accessing sites and mobile apps for your customers and also gain some insights about the specific user session ?
- What technologies are required to be monitored ?
- Can you install anything on the client machines (if not - for example Aternity is not on the table) ?
- Do you need some auto discovery capabilities with regards to architectures, data flows, dynamic baselines, etc. ?
So you see, there isn't a simple answer. That being said, from my experience in the past 5 years, I found the Dynatrace platform the be the most complete one, and suited for both small and large companies. Additionally, the fact that it has 750 people in R&D makes me sleep well at night when my customers are using this platform. I don't have a hands on experience with AppD or Atternity, but have seen the customers comparing Dynatrace to them and heard about their reasons for making a choice.
Hope this helps,
Gil
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is another APM vendor you might consider. HPE is an innovator in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and that rating is based upon advanced user experience monitoring capability as well as a wide range of SLA management features – both critical for an MSP.
HPE AppPulse APM excels at User Experience Monitoring. Its capabilities extend beyond just identifying the user action that precedes a problem into mapping out the entire “User Flow”. This enables you to see all of the transaction steps that the user follows to initiate their transaction.
Since there are usually multiple flows that a user can choose from while starting from the same initial action, so that you’re able to determine if any of you user flow paths are more problematic than others. Listing the initiating user action alone, as most of the other products do, isn’t enough to show you which transactions the action has impacted and which are fine.
This creates a 3D view of user interaction versus the more 2D picture that pointing to the user action provided by competitive offerings creates.
Another very strong capability for MSPs that HPE APM provides is SLA management. HPE AppPulse Active provides a range of SLA alerts, notifications, and reports to enable you to continuously monitor SLA compliance for all of the app environments under management.
These SLA management capabilities along with scripting capability based on HPE LoadRunner TruClient and VuGen technologies and allows load test to be run against apps in production using the same protocols used in QA/Test.
HPE Mobile Center, which is part of HPE’s ADM software suite along with LoadRunner and StormRunner, enables you to capture test scripts directly from actual mobile devices and then use them for pre-production load testing as well as within AppPulse Active APM in production.
Overall, this provides the most comprehensive range of performance management and testing tools available to enable you to ensure optimum service for your customers. You can also offer them additional service capabilities to enable them to support “bring your own device”, web apps and enterprise app monitoring.
Most of the HPE APM products are offered as SaaS offerings to make them very affordable for your SMB customers to whom overall cost is critical. They also offer very intuitive point and click web interfaces, which makes them easy for Line of Business users to use.
Best of all, all HPE APM products are developed in Israel. Our team there would be glad to assist you in implementing your MSP programs. We also have numerous reference customers in Israel to whom you could speak to obtain their insights about HPE APM products. That can also enable rapid local support which might be critical for ensuring your business success.
Tom Fisher
HPE APM
tfisher@hpe.com