We compared Dynatrace and Splunk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users appreciate Dynatrace's ability to track real users, AI capabilities, proactive feedback, and cost savings. It also provides a comprehensive view of infrastructure topology and microservices interaction. Users find it easy to manage, with a user-friendly interface and scalability. Dynatrace needs improvements in testing modules, cost reduction display, accessibility, user interface, and time zone handling. Despite some difficulties in pricing and licensing, users have seen a positive return on investment with Dynatrace.
"Simple classic but effective UI (unlike some modern UI's out there that have too much white-space)"
"It is very stable and reliable."
"It's very easy to reach the root cause of the problems in the applications, due do the analysis with Dynatrace. The timeframe to update and fix the applications has been reduced a lot compared to what we had before Dynatrace."
"We like the user's experience piece: being able to see, from the browser perspective, the user's behavior; being able to answer questions from our customers about why such and such happened, why the performance was slow, why we had an error."
"The ability to create any dashboard that you want for different levels of reporting for technical people, managers, or even executive level. They can get a one page view of what the system health and performance looks like."
"The solution has a very good user interface."
"Improved visibility on performance and application issues."
"The web dashboards are quite useful, good looking, and easy to use."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"I would like to know if classes and methods selected in "Method Sensor Rules" were changed in the applications, and not depend on the developers to warn us."
"Because we are financial, there are certain things that we cannot put on the cloud. However, that is a given fact, not only for us. It is a given fact for any financial company because of PCI compliance. Because of PCI compliance, companies don't take the risk of putting data in the cloud."
"Include network monitoring in more detail for deep dive analytics of network components."
"It's not really user friendly. You need to go through a certain type of training."
"We sometimes have to run plugins on docker containers."
"The solution could improve on integration, cloud services, and making the configuration less difficult."
"It is not clear what are our long-term strategy should be to upgrade (Appmon vs Dynatrace)."
"With Dynatrace in our environment, the managed server required root access to run. As a government agency with tight security, this has been an audit concern for us."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. 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 APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Monte Carlo, Elastic Observability and Grafana. See our Dynatrace vs. Splunk APM report.
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