We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Selenium HQ 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."Dynatrace has reduced our total headcount in operations and the mean time to detect and resolve problems. As a result, those challenging offline times are much shorter, if not non-existent, because of this solution."
"Complete visibility into end-to-end user transactions."
"Dynatrace alerts are based on deviations from the reference metrics which are constantly collected."
"The real user experience monitoring is very helpful. We can see what real users are seeing, what JavaScript errors, what pages are very slow for them. As well, it helps to correlate the front-end users to the back-end application components, and the corresponding Method which is failing, as well. We are able to go to the correct spot and fix the issue."
"It has been doing a good job of alerting us to issues. It has been very helpful and effective at identifying how we can do things to make our infrastructure and application a little better."
"The User Sessions Query language has definitely been the most helpful with its key user actions and user session properties. Using those together, that has completely transformed how we're able to identify customers and their problems on our site. It has made a very big impact over the year."
"Agentless Transaction Analysis allows my team to granularly decompose complex operations and flows for business applications."
"This solution has helped our organization on multiple occasions. The synthetic monitor came in particularly handy."
"For me, the most valuable feature of Selenium lies in its ability to help us find elements quickly. Apart from that, the driver interface is really useful, too. When we implement the Selenium driver interface, we can easily navigate through all of the pages and sections of an app, including performing things like clicking, putting through SendKeys, scrolling down, tagging, and all the other actions we need to test for in an application."
"The primary benefit is its cost and the ability to use the cloud."
"Selenium has helped to complete tests in less time, which would not be possible relying on manual testing only."
"It is compatible with and supports multiple languages, such as Java and Python. It is open source, and it is widely used."
"It's easy for new people to get trained on this solution. If we are hiring new people, the resource pool in the market in test automation is largely around Selenium."
"The grids, as well as the selectors, are the most valuable features."
"The main characteristic that is useful is that the tool is completely free."
"Data parametrization and parallelization are the most important features in any automation tool."
"We sometimes have to run plugins on docker containers."
"For AppMon, in order to use the rich client especially, I think you have to be somebody who is in there more often than not. It's not necessarily as intuitive as it could be."
"Beginner video tutorials would really help."
"Graphically, it is not good."
"Dynatrace has been difficult to set up and use to diagnose problems in the past due to the complex nature of the tool."
"In AppMon, the performance could be improved. That is the one thing I am most interested in."
"Even if the engine can manage a huge amount of data, requests take time to succeed."
"The web interface, in some cases, is a little ambiguous to use."
"I would like to see a library of bomb files with an automated process and integration with Jenkins and Slack."
"Selenium HQ can improve by creating an enterprise version where it can provide the infrastructure for running the tests. Currently, we need to run the test in our infrastructure because it's a free tool. If Google can start an enterprise subscription and they can provide us with the infrastructure, such as Google Cloud infrastructure where we can configure it, and we can run the test there, it would be highly beneficial."
"Coding skills are required to use Selenium, so it could be made more user-friendly for non-programmers."
"It is not a licensed tool. The problem with that is that it won't be able to support Windows desktop applications. There is no support for Windows desktop applications. They can do something about it. Its user interface can also be improved, which is not great compared to the other latest tools. Anybody who has been working on functional testing or manual testing cannot directly work on Selenium HQ without learning programming skills, which is a disadvantage."
"The drawback is the solution is not easy to learn."
"They should leverage the tools for supporting Windows apps."
"When we upgrade the version, some features are missing. I want the product to include some AI capabilities."
"The solution is open-source, so everyone relies on the community to assist with troubleshooting and information sharing. If there's a complex issue no one has faced, it may take a while to solve the problem."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 5th in Functional Testing Tools with 103 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Selenium HQ 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 Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Automation Anywhere (AA).
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