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.
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"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."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"It is really comfortable and easy to use for application monitoring. We are able to see and go deep into the problem. We didn't have any issues with this product."
"A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."
"The product allows us to build preferred/customized business transactions to track complex transactions. UEM (User Experience Monitoring) agents track user experience on webRequests. The advantage is that Dynatrace correlates the measures on the devices with those on the backend servers, giving us an end-to-end view of the transaction, from the user's phone deep into the backend servers."
"I think the design is pretty scalable. It's pretty easy to add additional nodes if we need to. Also, it's easy to migrate changes from one environment to another."
"The PurePath stuff for deep dive analysis on problems. That is massive as far as having a benefit."
"With the Agentless monitoring and ability to create custom plugins, we've been able to transform the tool not just into a great APM solution but a really good enterprise monitoring solution too."
"Dynatrace is capable of following all user actions across all monitored infrastructure, even to systems not monitored, but interconnected."
"I'm also involved on the practical side, putting in all the automation, that automation platform. To have a tool like Dynatrace, where I don't have to work out for hours how to configure and set up alerts and monitoring - especially in a solution that is not completed yet - it's not only a major time-saver, but I know going forward that it will be able to learn how the system operates. Day one, we're getting all of that stuff for free, out-of-the-box."
"There are a lot of things that take more time to do, such as charting, alerting, and correlation of data, and things like that. Azure Monitor doesn't tell you why something happened. It just tells you that it happened. It should also have some type of AI. Environments and applications are becoming more and more complex every day with hundreds or thousands of microservices. Therefore, having to do a lot of the stuff manually takes a lot of time, and on top of that, troubleshooting issues takes a lot of time. The traditional method of troubleshooting doesn't really work for or apply to this environment we're in. So, having an AI-based system and the ability to automate deployments of your monitoring and configurations makes it much easier."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"In terms of pricing, Azure Monitor's billing based on data size can sometimes lead to increased costs, especially when developers need to purge data frequently. While there are mechanisms in place to track and manage this, there is room for improvement in terms of optimizing data pausing and related processes. Enhancements in this area could help mitigate potential billing concerns and provide a more seamless experience for users."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"I would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"Session export for offline analysis, like it was in AppMon, would be also nice."
"Filters should have a “negative” option."
"The UX/UI needs improvement. It is not easy to learn."
"I would like to see internal synthetic tests in the next release, which is already on the roadmap."
"End-to-end monitoring could use more default dashboards."
"Infrastructure monitoring could be improved."
"The dashboarding in Dynatrace is not very good. We have used other monitoring tools like AppDynamics. We are also using AppDynamics for some of our products. If I compare Dynatrace with those monitoring tools, the dashboarding is not as good. If I have to create a dashboard it takes me time, the experience is not that good."
"I would like to see the same features as in the New Relic Insights in the dashboard. That is the only thing I want to see improved in Dynatrace."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 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, Prometheus, Sentry, 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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