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.
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"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."
"The OneAgent technology does a brilliant job of simplifying what was earlier one of the pain points in enterprise monitoring."
"Smartscape display for ease of visibility, pinpointing a exact problem, and providing necessary details for fixing and even improving on."
"Automation and anomaly detection has helped reduce MTTR and MTBF."
"We like the on-premises platform and the horizontal scalability."
"Integration with other tools in company using SNMP traps."
"We have used Dynatrace in our performance testing environments to get ahead of issues before they make it into production."
"Our development group has started using Dynatrace extensively. It helps them find bottlenecks caused by code."
"It helps DevOps find all its problems easily and analyzes performance problems."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"Integration with third-party tools from other vendors than Azure is more time-consuming"
"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."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"In the new Dynatrace solution, support for legacy applications is still not there. "
"Improvements in Synthetic monitoring would be great. Certain features of thick client, if available in the web interface, would also be a great improvement."
"The dashboard could improve."
"This solution would be improved with the addition of annotations for automated custom metrics creation."
"Hard to use for beginners, to setup and explore."
"There continues to be some opportunity to expose the infrastructure from a broader reporting standpoint. Overall, the opportunity is in the reporting capability and the ability to more flexibly expose or pivot the data for deeper analysis. Oftentimes, the solution is good at looking narrowly at information, but when you want to broaden that perspective, that's where the challenges come in. At this point, it requires the export of data to external systems to do this."
"I would like to see the ability to pull more user-friendly reports."
"Filters should have a “negative” option."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 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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