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.
"We have configured the alerting so the error or the incident will go to the respective team. Then, the team can contact the user once they see that they have an issue and ask if they can them resolve the issue."
"We spend less time investing in problems. We can spend more time on developing new projects."
"We spend less time on troubleshooting issues since Dynatrace proactively informs us of an impending bottle neck."
"Often, we are busy working on other tasks when something goes wrong with the site. Getting timely alerts is very important to our needs as a business."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you can drill down to the code level and get a breadth of information."
"Dynatrace's new AI stuff really out shines its competitors. "
"I think with Dynatrace, it has helped to bring value to the business because now we can speak using the same language."
"We were able to decrease the number of production defects ever since we started using Dynatrace in our test environment."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"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."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"It's easy to use."
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"We had one issue when we tried to enter one agent and it just does not work. We got to work with the highest level of support, but it took a while to get there."
"This solution could be improved with better compatibility with legacy applications."
"I would also like to see it baselining more metrics out-of-the-box. We have a lot of rich data, but if someone says, "Well how did that look last week?" If you're looking at a problem and you see, for example, a long SQL statement, is that the root cause, or is it always slow. it's difficult to get historical data."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"From the Dynatrace SaaS platform, they talk about the APIs. The approach they take is, "We create the APIs, you use them however you want." I like it, that gives us flexibility. But at the same time, if your company does not have a huge number of APM specialists, or it does not have the time and resources available to spend on these kind of technology developments, it would be helpful if there were out-of-the-box solutions available from the platform. I would certainly consider that, because that would make us go to market much faster, rather than redeveloping our own solutions based on those APIs."
"There should be more visibility for network performance monitoring. There should be more metrics for things like 5G and IoT. That would be the main thing because they've moved more to mobile performance rather than fixed networks."
"The initial setup was challenging for us. However, it was complex until you grasped the nuances of the product and the building blocks."
"More integrations could prove very beneficial to us."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be even more automated."
"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 27th 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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