We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Honeycomb.io based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."There is a strong user community. There is no need to talk to the technical support, because all the questions which I have had, all the solutions were in the documentation. Or, I have been able to post a question to the user community and get an answer within a day or two."
"We have not had any stability issues with it at all. This has been the most stable solution that I have worked with."
"We spend less time on troubleshooting issues since Dynatrace proactively informs us of an impending bottle neck."
"I like the auto email alerting feature the most, as it is set up based on the application error or condition."
"PureStack, I just love it. It can give visibility from the end-user perspective right through to the code level. That's the most valuable feature."
"They have a feature that allows you to monitor the user, and we are able to create a VIP customer."
"We can know exactly what happened in what time with PurePath."
"In terms of AI, I love the base-lining Dynatrace provides us. It baselines the application over a seven-day period; we have it at the default of seven days. The artificial intelligence is so amazing because it can automatically track each transaction and their response times: how much CPU they use, how much memory, resources that they use. If there’s any deviation from that Dynatrace will tell me like right away. If there’s a deployment and the deployment has increased response time or is taking up CPU or has caused a memory leak, I can say, “Hey guys, you need to look at this, it’s this function on this page in this microservice, in this docker container. You need to go here, you need to fix it, it’s not going live.” It has just increased our productivity off the charts."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"I would like to see internal synthetic tests in the next release, which is already on the roadmap."
"I would say it's not scalable, because we've had to move large applications that were in a shared environment to their own separate Dynatrace server instance."
"I would like Dynatrace to be more flexible and user-friendly."
"The one thing I do not like about Dynatrace is that their web dashboards are very very slow. They seriously have to improve their web dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts."
"The new Managed Edition is too complex. I feel like a fish out of water."
"I have not had very positive experiences with tech support in the last year. I found them to be arrogant, rude, not solving my problems, and not interested in solving my problems."
"When it comes to monitoring, we did the integration with VMware vCenter, and we were able to see some good stuff. The VMware vCenter integration was really great, but what we really missed was the integration with the network management stuff such as Cisco ACI. We wanted to see integration in that area, but it was not provided by Dynatrace. So, the main feature for us is integration with things like Cisco ACI. If they can bring that one in, with vCenter in there, it would be a total solution. It would be absolutely incomparable to anything else in the market."
"One piece that we think that's missing is, there were thread names that were missing in analytical information in the Dynatrace solution, versus the AppMon solution. The AppMon solution gives you that information, and it is very helpful for connecting dots and bringing all the pieces together."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 36th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Honeycomb.io 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 Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Datadog, Chronosphere and New Relic.
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