We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and WhatsUp Gold 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 choice over WhatsUp Gold due to its advanced features such as real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities, as well as AI capabilities for automating incident alerts and the Kubernetes module for topology visualization. Additionally, Dynatrace provides good visibility and thorough scanning of services and applications with the ability to drill down and analyze traffic. Although WhatsUp Gold is stable and cost-effective, it lacks some of the advanced features and capabilities of Dynatrace.
"It helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"In terms of explaining to a customer how their data works, it has been a great tool. Instead of trying to draw it out, then hoping that is exactly where the data goes."
"Support from Dynatrace is excellent. They are always on hand for any queries, demos, and/or issues."
"Auto alerting and reporting on the application and the infrastructure aid us in delivering our service with greater value."
"I can get everything on a single page."
"It severely reduces the time spent doing performance test cycles."
"We are quite happy with the support that they have been providing."
"The autodiscovery of service intercommunication has saved countless man hours and is dynamically updated when new services are added."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"The user interface is good enough."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"Searches should be faster."
"Perhaps there is a FAQ which explains the metrics and how to interpret them, and I just haven't seen it. This would be beneficial in providing context to allow sharing the daily metrics reported within the company."
"Graphically, it is not good."
"We would like the AI to produce more scientific data with less configuration."
"It needs improvement with proprietary protocols for the DC RUM part."
"The usability is worse than it used to be."
"Needs support for more technologies."
"It needs container log monitoring."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"The interface needs some work."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Dynatrace vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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