We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) 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 choice over Google Cloud's operations suite. It has more comprehensive features, better AI capabilities, and offers better visibility for network performance monitoring. Google Cloud's operations suite is user-friendly and scalable, but lacks certain metrics and tools for application logs and automation in the monitoring process.
"Dynatrace AppMon has allowed a deep dive review of performance problems in near real-time for our primary external website and related web apps and web services."
"The deployment itself is very easy and straightforward."
"The UEM feature, User Experience Management: Understanding how users are perceiving the application and then connecting that back into back-end systems to understand why things have gotten slow and then dealing with things."
"It allows you to better utilize and focus your talent, and tell management that you are not only looking at problems, but how you can ultimately make the product better for the end user."
"Integration with other tools in company using SNMP traps."
"Since we moved to OneAgent, we are much quicker to address live incidents and problems that occur in our systems."
"It eases the investigation process (faster feedback loop with clients), better pro-activity on possible outages (in order to avoid outages), and eases the process of fine tuning allocation of resources to processes."
"No other provider gives us log ingestion, Kubernetes/Docker monitoring, and application monitoring for NodeJS."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"
"We find the solution to be stable."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"I like the monitoring feature."
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"Graphically, it is not good."
"For an easy view of global and entity-specific configurations, a separate tile or pane aggregating these configurations should be implemented."
"I think scalability is what we're struggling with. I would say it's okay, but there's a little bit of room for improvement."
"It needs education and training to ensure you get the full value of your purchase. Maybe add in a certification for Dynatrace."
"We are happy with the server monitoring, but we feel like the application monitoring should be improved."
"One thing we'd like to see is mobile native replay. They don't have a timeline on it yet, but that's one of the key things we're looking at, to get rid of one of our incumbent products that does replay."
"Setting up the thresholds and alerting, it is complicated to understand their use cases."
"It would be nice if there were a way that it could be made simpler, given the complexity of the things that we're monitoring."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It could be more stable."
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Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 24th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 10 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Elastic Observability. See our Dynatrace vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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