We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and SolarWinds Server and Application 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 the superior product when compared to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. It has more advanced features including AI capabilities and better visualization capabilities. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"My primary use of the tool is to keep revenue coming into the business and to use it to help our business team in running their site analytics and web performance tools. They have things like Adobe Analytics that provide them with one layer of data. We use Dynatrace as another railroad metric to both confirm the Adobe Analytics data and enhance it in certain places where Adobe won't give us the answers that we need. In terms of metrics, we've had roughly about 120,000 unique sessions per hour on our website. So, we're capturing a lot of session data and real user data, and all of that data is kept in user sessions. We can look this information up by user ID to tag any given session that we want to find by date/client. E.g., if the user said that they had an issue last Thursday at 11:00 PM, then we can just do a search on their email address, go through all their sessions, and find the one that they mentioned, then dig directly into that one."
"Dynatrace gives us and our clients information about all layers and components of their platform, including the most important starting point for us: real-time and historical end user experience."
"PurePath does deep dive analysis, has dashboards, and provides real user experience monitoring. It has allowed us to do analysis which was never possible before."
"The most valuable features for me are the dashboard panels because they enable you to monitor multiple applications in one single site."
"Of the entire stack, DC RUM and DT SaaS are definitely the most asked for in our offering catalog."
"The graphical interface is helpful, as it illustrates things well for anyone who wants to know about the information it provides."
"It eases the investigation process (faster feedback loop with clients), better pro-activity on possible outages (in order to avoid outages), and eases the process of fine tuning allocation of resources to processes."
"Dynatrace has allowed us to pinpoint quickly any pain points our clients experience with our applications and respond accordingly."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"Manage Groups: The capability to group appropriate devices gives better visibility of sites, categories, or critical regions. The same can be used to represent a dashboard for higher management."
"Identifying the problem statement is easy."
"This product can monitor application environments no matter where they reside and provides capabilities for deep insight into infrastructure."
"I adore the NTA module that provides deep details on ingress/egress traffic for any interface. With a few clicks, you can correlate who is accessing what and when, beside the bandwidth consuming applications/users."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"Pretty much every month there are new features. However, its information on those new features is scarce."
"Improvements are needed in the navigation and timeframe selection when browsing problems."
"I would like to see the ability to pull more user-friendly reports."
"I would like better plugin support, because they are constantly asking us to do plugins, saying "Yeah, we can do that. Use this plugin." Then, the moment something goes wrong with that plugin, I have no way of getting help."
"Dynatrace must reduce the required resources for on-premise, because they are too high."
"The web version of the client interface needs more features that are in the Java-based thick client."
"They seriously have to improve their Web UI dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts. Their Web UI dashboards are very slow."
"It needs improvement with proprietary protocols for the DC RUM part."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
"There is one feature that is a report writer. And they are currently trying to take it out from being a stand-alone application and integrating to the web. This doesn't give us the flexibility and it doesn't expand what we can get when it comes to reporting. So, putting it on the web is going to make it difficult to get some information. Leaving it where it is now will help us a lot."
"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
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Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Sentry, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, AppDynamics, Prometheus, ServiceNow Discovery and Nagios XI. See our Dynatrace vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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