We compared Dynatrace and Splunk Enterprise Security across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Dynatrace is highly regarded for its advanced AI engine and ability to identify infrastructure automatically. It also offers session replay and impressive visualization features. Splunk Enterprise Security stands out for its efficiency, extensive integration options, and powerful search functionality.
Room for Improvement: Some Dynatrace reviewers feel the learning curve is a little steep, and the documentation could be clearer. Users say that Dynatrace should offer more security options and improve integration with other tools. Splunk users recommended improvements in AI capabilities, user-friendliness, and analytics.
Service and Support: Users generally found Dynatrace's customer service to be satisfactory, but some said that the response times and documentation have room for improvement. While some users found Splunk support to be responsive and helpful, others reported slow response times and a lack of expertise.
Ease of Deployment: Dynatrace's setup is simple, efficient, and requires minimal technical configuration. It takes a few hours at most. Some users thought Splunk Enterprise Security was easy to deploy, while others found it challenging and needed assistance from Splunk engineers or third-party integrators.
Pricing: Users say Dynatrace is expensive. Some noted that the licensing model is complicated and not transparent. Some said they struggled to accurately predict the number of units needed. Some users consider Splunk Enterprise Security to be expensive, but others said the price is reasonable. A few users expressed concerns about the cost of scaling up the solution and managing large volumes of data.
ROI: Dynatrace users said the solutions saved them money and reduced downtime. Users said that it’s challenging to calculate an ROI for Splunk Enterprise Security, and the return varies depending on individual circumstances. While some users have observed a substantial ROI, others have not actively explored or been engaged in ROI conversations.
"It can hook on at the code level, then tell me all the details that I need."
"The Dashboard is very useful, as you can monitor different parameters on the same screen."
"Of the entire stack, DC RUM and DT SaaS are definitely the most asked for in our offering catalog."
"This tool has been essential for monitoring our systems, gathering all performance data, and helping to quickly resolve difficult problems affecting our customers ability to process their work through our systems."
"Knowing what services are impacted by infrastructure host issues is critical to the service we offer."
"Quick availability of multiple aspects of performance from infrastructure to application layers."
"We can report and monitor on specific use cases which could not be monitored with SAP or other tooling."
"Reduces the amount of knowledge that is needed by applications consuming this data."
"Splunk would be my choice for the presentation layer because it comes with inbuilt reports and a dashboard that you can customize."
"We are much faster finding and addressing issues with Splunk."
"Its usability is the best part. It is easy for our developers to use if they want to search their logs, etc."
"Recently, Splunk upgraded to version 9.0.02, which includes excellent data dashboards and visualization effects."
"Splunk has significantly reduced the time in performing the task of aggregating logs, reviewing as well as time spent during investigations."
"The solution is the market leader."
"Easy to deploy and simple to use."
"The ability to manipulate data in Splunk is unparalleled. Splunk’s powerful, flexible query language can morph difficult to understand log formats into usable data."
"JIRA integration should be enriched and more granular."
"I was hands on in the setup of the solution. Initially, it seemed a little daunting."
"Waiting for the session replay needs improvement."
"Searches should be faster."
"End-to-end monitoring could use more default dashboards."
"Mainly navigation needs improvement. It is easier to follow a flow. Following the flow of the admin now is not easy."
"We should be able to easily simplify both the charting and slicing-and-dicing of user metrics with cookies that contain customer/user information."
"The plugin architecture is not very flexible, which makes it difficult to add the custom monitoring not available through Dynatrace, specifically around file monitoring."
"The GUI can be improved to include some of the capabilities that other BI solutions have."
"The UI can be difficult to understand for non-technical people."
"The security can be improved."
"The product's price may be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The GUI can be improved. Splunk has always suffered from having a kind of goofy UI, it needs some updating."
"The product's price may be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"On-premises scaling of the solution is a bit more limited than it is on the cloud."
"We had an instance when Splunk failed and it took us a couple of days to recover."
Dynatrace is ranked 4th in Log Management with 341 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 240 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. 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 Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security, Microsoft Sentinel and Datadog. See our Dynatrace vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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As far as I know, Splunk is used as a syslog system only and DynaTrace is an application monitoring system. So you will use Splunk to collect events/logs from servers and devices and you will use DynaTrace to monitor applications and send alerts to end users, provide dashboards etc.
Dynatrace is for APM / ITOM solution. Dynatrace trace can inspect the .net, Java, PHP Program. Splunk is for Log management and SIEM which Dynatrace does not focus on.
They are two different function products.
We use Dynatrace for deep dive transaction tracking to find performance issues of applications. We use Splunk various log analysis tasks mainly in the area of security.
It really depends on the use case. Dynatrace can actually enrich the data collected by Splunk and Dynatrace has an out of the box connection to Splunk. If the goal is application performance and end-user analytics then Dynatrace is the better solution. If the goal is security and threat analytics then Splunk is the right solution.
Splunk and Dynatrace are two different solutions. Most organizations use both of them. Splunk can aggregate logs from Dynatrace. It also depends on what is the purpose of the usage. If you intend to measure end to end application performance and the application logs are instrumenting the metrics, then Splunk alone can do the job. It also allows you to correlate other events like firewall, network and other dependent applications/services.
Dynatrace and Splunk are two different solutions that provide insight from different perspectives. Dynatrace is installed on servers/applications to provide APM and Splunk is more a log and data analytics solution that processes logs (traps/syslog/Windows Events/Firewall Logs/etc.).
Dynatrace provides application performance management (APM), artificial intelligence for operations (AIOps), cloud infrastructure monitoring, and digital experience management (DEM), with products for the information technology departments and digital business owners of medium and large businesses. The company's services include performance management software for programs running on-premises and in the cloud. This software manages the availability and performance of software applications and the impact on user experience in the form of deep transaction tracing, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and network monitoring.
Splunk (the product) captures, indexes, and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.
Splunk makes machine data accessible across an organization by identifying data patterns, providing metrics, diagnosing problems, and providing intelligence for business operations. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.
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