We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Database Monitoring and Dynatrace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Knowing which tables on the database were working the most was valuable. It helped the client understand where they need to focus. They streamlined a lot of their queries and brought the resource usage down. It helped them to find long-running queries. They rewrote them completely so that they don't take as long and the application performs better."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring's dashboarding is its best feature."
"Visibility to the end-users is a valuable feature."
"The product is easy to install, it took about half an hour. The use and the configurations are simple as well."
"The features related to the application performance in AppDynamics Database Monitoring are the most valuable."
"To be honest, it's a fantastic product."
"AppDynamics is a good tool that offers excellent out-of-the-box dashboards and application topology."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ability to discover and track transactions."
"We started monitoring our VMware hypervisors and that gave us valuable system specific metrics into our virtual environments."
"The most valuable function is the ability to replay a customer session."
"The deployment itself is very easy and straightforward."
"We use Dynatrace for performance testing. We use it to dig down for application layer or slowness issues, getting a clear idea of what is causing the issues, then reporting back to the engineering team."
"Dynatrace's documentation is great. I love the university."
"This is a stable solution."
"Real time monitoring helps reduce downtime. It saves a lot of time in determining what is the likely cause of an issue an end user may be experiencing."
"It provides the whole perspective in a single place when trying to guide the right people to go to the right solution at any given point in time."
"This product has an issue with initial lag upon opening that we would like to see improved."
"It could be more user-friendly for beginners."
"Stability-wise, we experienced some performance issues when upgrading from 4.4 to 4.5."
"Based on the user experience feedback that we have had, I think that the most important thing to improve is the availability of the SaaS, the cloud environment."
"I have found it sometimes a bit difficult to trace the transaction all the way through to the application. I'm not sure if that problem is on the database side or on the application side, but that would be something that I would like to be improved. The traceability from the application to the database, sometimes, is a bit of a challenge. If you're using AppDynamics, with the Java agent, for instance, you need to be able to trace it through."
"The product lost its place as an industry leader."
"The application end of AppDynamics Database Monitoring needs to improve by checking which applications consume licenses."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be a better product if it could support new technology, such as cloud technology. Even Dynatrace lacks support for newer technologies."
"Under heavyweight, Dynatrace becomes slower when listing PurePaths."
"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."
"Getting the EM data, we have to open a browser. Generally, one of the asks from our clients or our engineering team is to change this."
"I would love to see Dynatrace get more involved in the security realm. I get badgered by so many endpoint protection companies. It seems like a natural fit to me, that Dynatrace should be playing in that space."
"Nginx monitoring service did not work out-of-the-box, so we had to tinker with it for quite some time."
"I would suggest to have more rich client features on Appmon as soon as possible."
"For AppMon, there is always room for improvement: charting, dashboarding, and user management."
"SSO options are missing."
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AppDynamics Database Monitoring is ranked 17th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews. AppDynamics Database Monitoring is rated 7.8, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Database Monitoring writes "Good application performance features along with a very simple and tool navigation". 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". AppDynamics Database Monitoring is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, AppDynamics and AWS X-Ray, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor. See our AppDynamics Database Monitoring vs. Dynatrace report.
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