We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Azure Monitor 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 a better option than Azure Monitor, as it offers more advanced monitoring features such as real user tracking, AIOps automation, Kubernetes module, and session replay, along with a user-friendly interface, good AI capabilities, and easy deployment. In contrast, Azure Monitor is easy to set up and maintain but lacks visualization and integration with third-party services, and needs more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence for event correlation. Dynatrace also provides better ROI through cost savings from automation and decreased mean time to identification and repair.
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"Being able to get down to the individual code level to see where transactions are taking time. It has helped troubleshoot issues immensely and other tools can't provide this."
"It has more functionality, better additional components, and better management of problems. It also has a good AI."
"Since things are getting more complicated, it is nice to have artificial intelligence to correlate issues and events to come up with root cause."
"Support was very quick to help us identify a problem and fix it immediately"
"Provides bespoke dashboards and reports which help our business to grow."
"PurePaths help us drill down to the root cause of problems and escape the war room."
"The solution has a very good user interface."
"If you look in the APM sector, it is a very nice package to install."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"The GUI has the most room for improvement. Sometimes, it can be a little cumbersome to find things and be able to create your own views, or be able to dig in and understand where things are."
"Every time we spin up an EC2 instance, we have to slap an agent on it and that is more work. So, if it could go agentless, that would be great."
"The dashboarding process and creating measures and metrics, it needs to be made a little bit easier and more simplified. "
"It needs a dashboard for cluster events in general, and for Kubernetes specifically."
"It can be improved in narrowing the exact exception/ERROR in application monitoring."
"Right now, for AppMon, the maximum handling load, the transaction per minute, is around 6,500. We had an issue on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, some kind of stability issue for users who could not log in. I want to see an increase in the load, at least to 7,000 or 8,000 transactions per second"
"I'd like to see self-healing and I'd also like to see more automation. It looks like is that's the direction Dynatrace is heading in, in their Dynatrace product."
"If Dynatrace is capturing everything in your application, it has to "sense" that information, and that sensing needs sensors which we have to include in our applications. The more you apply sensors - the more details you want - the more you have to increase the level of sensing. If I increase the level of sensing, my application's performance goes down, because something is there that is, again and again, checking each and every thing in the application. So that load on the applications increases. So, many times my applications used to crash because Dynatrace was working on them. We had to remove some sensing; either we had to reduce the sensing or we had to remove Dynatrace immediately."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana and New Relic, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Elastic Observability. See our Azure Monitor vs. Dynatrace report.
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