We compared Dynatrace and Splunk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users appreciate Dynatrace's ability to track real users, AI capabilities, proactive feedback, and cost savings. It also provides a comprehensive view of infrastructure topology and microservices interaction. Users find it easy to manage, with a user-friendly interface and scalability. Dynatrace needs improvements in testing modules, cost reduction display, accessibility, user interface, and time zone handling. Despite some difficulties in pricing and licensing, users have seen a positive return on investment with Dynatrace.
"The PurePath feature enables you to see the path from click to database query."
"The tool allows us to see if it is an infrastructural related issue and see what is affected right away."
"The deployment itself is very easy and straightforward."
"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 my experience, Dynatrace is scalable."
"It is easy to see what areas you want to alert on and catch."
"Agentless Transaction Analysis allows my team to granularly decompose complex operations and flows for business applications."
"It was delivered when we wanted it and has performed exceptionally well."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"Sometimes we get incidences during the US morning when we are not at the office. If I can get the benefit of a solution, which can alert us and solve itself. It is an automation thing where we do not want to wake up late at night and work on the application."
"Searches should be faster."
"What needs improvement in Dynatrace is its dashboard. Creating dashboards in Dynatrace is good, but compared to Grafana, which is integrated with Broadcom DX APM, the resulting dashboard in Dynatrace isn't as clear. The Dynatrace dashboard needs to be more graphic."
"Dashboarding and having different templates available for more business reporting, or even other metrics, would be useful."
"Beginner video tutorials would really help."
"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."
"The next release I would like to see is especially with external API monitoring. Right now, everything goes into one bucket, but if it were split into which API is failing, that way we wouldn't have to drill down to find out where the failures are."
"Need better mapping to true business service rather than purely technical monitoring."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Splunk APM 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 Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Observe. See our Dynatrace vs. Splunk APM report.
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