We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and AppDynamics 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. It is praised for its strong AI capabilities, better real-user monitoring and session replay functions, and user-friendly interface. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"The solution saves time and cost."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management)."
"Being able to identify the blind spots. Before, we had lots of monitoring, but it was all very manual. You only monitor what you know about. As soon as we put Dynatrace in, it sprung to life, and we identified problems instantly."
"For stability, our customers have no complaints."
"It helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"The best part of Dynatrace is that the tool is very lightweight and very easy to install."
"Dynatrace has the most features compared to other products we looked at."
"For me, the most valuable feature of this solution is that deep dive that we get out of the AppMon product with the PurePath technology, and the way that the PurePath stack works."
"The most valuable features for us include problem detection, root cause identification, Smartscape, and integration with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"AppDynamics is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"This solution is expensive."
"The infrastructure is not as good as other solutions."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first screen you see."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"The user interface for the management functions is not particularly intuitive for even the most common features."
"The installation process had quite a few moving parts, so it was a little tricky getting everything to work in first go."
"I still don't see the full depth of database metrics for database performance management. For example, I use Oracle Enterprise Manager and I use a type of access that provides me a lot of metrics and meaningful ways to evaluate database performance. That is something I don't see in Dynatrace yet."
"We have had to resolve a lot of things and had a lot of issues with the tool."
"It would be nice to have a simplified monitoring feature for non-Java applications."
"I would like to see the same features as in the New Relic Insights in the dashboard. That is the only thing I want to see improved in Dynatrace."
"I would suggest to have more rich client features on Appmon as soon as possible."
"More integrations could prove very beneficial to us."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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". AppDynamics is most compared with Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability. See our AppDynamics vs. Dynatrace report.
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