We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and AppDynamics 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. It is praised for its strong AI capabilities, better real-user monitoring and session replay functions, and user-friendly interface. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"The most valuable feature is the ability to take a report, and in particular, a visual, and link it to actual application performance and then the consequences. This means you can show how an incident or action has an effect on the business."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"The ability to check parameters for microservice applications is most valuable. It is important for me. I can manually create new business transactions for applications and individually monitor business transactions. I can also use a lot of extensions. It has a lot of extensions to monitor other third-party applications, such as NoSQL applications, memory cache applications, Kafka applications, and Couchbase applications. It is very useful. We are also using the end-user monitoring site to follow all end-user activities. It is important for us to check the errors on the customer site."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"The SAP monitoring element is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"The initial setup is simple."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"The most valuable feature is the beautiful UI."
"One of the key things with Dynatrace is that they are very open to influence on product development side. So, we've influenced them fairly heavily on development and capabilities for Citrix and DC RUM. They've given us integration and support components around some odd technologies that we've got, and they have always been very open and accommodating to going after and developing capabilities around the stuff that we are looking for."
"Dynatrace helps to build business and non-business dashboards and the appropriate alarming on mail groups."
"We enabled UEM for all of our applications. This allows us to see exactly what the client is experiencing."
"The installation and configuration were very straightforward and nice."
"The stability for the solution is pretty solid overall."
"The PurePath stuff for deep dive analysis on problems. That is massive as far as having a benefit."
"The most valuable function is the ability to replay a customer session."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"The UI could use a little help."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"End-to-end monitoring could use more default dashboards."
"The one thing I do not like about Dynatrace is that their web dashboards are very very slow. They seriously have to improve their web dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts."
"This solution needs improvement in terms of automation."
"We'd like it to be more user-friendly, which, in our case, might be a big ask as we have a fairly complex environment."
"One thing we'd like to see is mobile native replay. They don't have a timeline on it yet, but that's one of the key things we're looking at, to get rid of one of our incumbent products that does replay."
"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."
"Another area for improvement is that I would like the alerting to be set up a little bit more easily. Currently, it takes a lot of work to add alerting, especially if you have a large environment, and I consider our environment to be quite large. The alerting takes a lot of administration."
"There are a couple gaps in the network reporting that we would like to see cleared up a bit."
AppDynamics is ranked 2nd in Container Monitoring with 153 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Container Monitoring with 340 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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 is most compared with Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability. See our AppDynamics vs. Dynatrace report.
See our list of best Mobile APM vendors, best Container Monitoring vendors, and best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors.
We monitor all Container Monitoring reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
