We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Instana Dynamic APM 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 option over Instana Dynamic APM as it offers more comprehensive features and better AI capabilities, and has provided significant ROI through cost savings. While Instana Dynamic APM has a user-friendly GUI and fast implementation, it lacks certain features and detailed information about issues. Dynatrace's higher pricing is outweighed by the benefits of automation and decreased mean time to identification and repair.
"If you look in the APM sector, it is a very nice package to install."
"It can hook on at the code level, then tell me all the details that I need."
"I like the PurePaths dashlet the most. This is mostly because as soon I open the PurePaths dashlet and sort by response time, there is the problem. Every time."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to perform synthetic checks for monitoring sites using click paths."
"Dynatrace makes it so much easier to proactively solve problems before they become big headaches, and easily pinpoint the root cause of an issue."
"It gives more visibility into all the coding (the black screen). It gives a nice screen. You can see ups and downs. You can see where the traffic is getting impacted, more on the convergence side."
"We use it for monitoring all the applications in our bank, and it works fantastically."
"Our customers are now able to control their infrastructure with a single tool, and can easily check the connections with all components."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"This tool had a feature of doing load test in production or lower environment, which was shut down earlier this year. We are missing that feature badly and we definitely want to see that feature back."
"The plugin architecture is not very flexible, which makes it difficult to add the custom monitoring not available through Dynatrace, specifically around file monitoring."
"Hard to use for beginners, to setup and explore."
"Experience with relationship/account manager has been really poor, it does not seem to be the firm's priority to support their customers."
"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."
"They should make hooks into some of the more modern performance testing tools a little easier. I think that would go a long way."
"Scalability has improved quite a bit from the beginning."
"Include network monitoring in more detail for deep dive analytics of network components."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. 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 Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and SCOM, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with AppDynamics, New Relic, Elastic Observability, IBM Application Performance Management and Datadog. See our Dynatrace vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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