We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The Recorder for setting up a synthetic monitor is a really great tool for non-technical staff to be able to set up a monitor."
"The solution has a very good user interface."
"The solution is amazing, it does well when you need to use it."
"The deployment itself is very easy and straightforward."
"The ability to really drill into performance issues and help our application teams understand what is causing the business's problems."
"The most valuable features are ease of deployment, UI, and collected data. Its deployment is really easy. In just a few hours, you can have a very good outcome, and you can see everything, which is very valuable. It collects a good amount of data."
"The dashboards are a really cool feature when I get to talking to clients. I ask them, "Why Dynatrace?" Because I need to push the tools that I have in my application. Then, they explain the monitoring of Dynatrace, saying the rate of the updates and features. They want to go with Dynatrace."
"In general, it has helped me go through different logs more easily when something breaks."
"The SolarWinds NPM framework, upon which most of their flagship products are built, empowers a wide variety of admins and users to quickly find value in their installed products."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"I found a lot of valuable features in SolarWinds NPM, such as the customized application monitoring that allows you to customize any monitoring and script customization, and you also have the option to deploy and upgrade SolarWinds NPM online, which is very useful for my organization."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"Technical support is very helpful with our upgrades."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"Network performance is the main issue clients are facing. SolarWinds checks if a node is down, and we can set thresholds for performance metrics. For example, we set it up to get an alert automatically if a value is over 80 percent. It has a full dashboard that covers CP, hard disk, and node monitoring."
"The integration of the tools is getting there. It is still not there yet, because we still have to get a lot of tools to put together."
"It often produces "false alarms" and cannot identify failure patterns over days/weeks that do not indicate concern."
"I would like to see the Business Transactions made easier, so you can distinguish users and companies (this can get very hairy for a large multi-tenant application)."
"The challenge with AppMon is, what if you don't have an AppMon agent on a host, but it talks to the database. It talks to it, but I don't have either a host agent or an AppMon agent on it. That has been a challenge, but I believe the Dynatrace agent, the OneAgent, will solve that, potentially."
"They seriously have to improve their Web UI dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts. Their Web UI dashboards are very slow."
"The integration with PagerDuty is currently broken on mobile."
"Make it easier to define applications. E.g., provide an API for applications defined by REST services."
"Improvements in Synthetic monitoring would be great. Certain features of thick client, if available in the web interface, would also be a great improvement."
"Time: A worldwide deployment can be confusing for dispersed users with non-local times. Each node should have a local time (with summer offset if appropriate) & each user should view & report in their local time."
"The solution is not always good with new features, so it's take a long time."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"Application Performance Monitoring should be included in this solution."
"The reporting module that got integrated into the system itself, used to be a standalone solution and I preferred that."
"Technical support can be slow to respond."
"We are looking to change away from this solution because of the documentation and the solution doesn't have enough integration in our country. The documentation is too weak."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while SolarWinds NPM 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 SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity.
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