We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Database Monitoring and Dynatrace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."AppDynamics Database Monitoring's dashboarding is its best feature."
"The dashboards are very well-defined."
"The feature that is most valuable to us is the snapshot feature. It allows us to get a snapshot of different SQL scripts that are being executed simultaneously and we can identify everything we need on them."
"The ability to identify the top running queries has been extremely valuable for us."
"AppDynamics is scalable. They can monitor billions of transactions because they're not monitoring all transactions. They're monitoring samples. So, they can offer good monitoring for the huge sites."
"We were able to correct problems, which led to an increase in availability, time savings, and performance for our solutions."
"The most valuable feature in this solution, for our business, is the clear way of projecting the connections between the database and the traffic inflow. This is very helpful when troubleshooting issues."
"Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases."
"The best part of Dynatrace is that the tool is very lightweight and very easy to install."
"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."
"UEM can be used for user impact analysis and troubleshooting."
"One of the features that sets this product apart from its competitors is that it generates a solution."
"For stability, our customers have no complaints."
"If you look in the APM sector, it is a very nice package to install."
"It helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"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."
"The product's drawback is the licensing pricing. It could be better."
"The scalability could be improved."
"I believe they need to increase their level of visibility in the infrastructure, particularly in the infrastructure monitoring section, which currently lacks visibility."
"The application end of AppDynamics Database Monitoring needs to improve by checking which applications consume licenses."
"Based on the user experience feedback that we have had, I think that the most important thing to improve is the availability of the SaaS, the cloud environment."
"Stability-wise, we experienced some performance issues when upgrading from 4.4 to 4.5."
"They could align the product strategy to evolve as a complete solution."
"The solution should add some monitoring similar to Oracle monitoring tools for databases. It has a lot of features to monitor SQL queries, and make some recommendation to resolve it. AppDynamics is just monitoring for delays and doesn't provide any recommendations for that. It's a deficiency."
"Documentation is slightly in error as far as directory set ups and guidance. We came to our own solution for distributing the disk loads."
"SSO options are missing."
"The web version of the client interface needs more features that are in the Java-based thick client."
"The integration of the tools is getting there. It is still not there yet, because we still have to get a lot of tools to put together."
"PurePath exports was a great feature in AppMon, but it is sometimes missing in Dynatrace."
"I did like the old dashboards, the legacy 6.3 for example; the way we were able to do the dashboarding in the client. I would like to be able to see that in the new version of Dynatrace."
"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."
"It could be more affordable and therefore, more widely used by including more features like DEM as part of licensing cost rather than an additional expense."
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AppDynamics Database Monitoring is ranked 19th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews. AppDynamics Database Monitoring is rated 7.8, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Database Monitoring writes "Good application performance features along with a very simple and tool navigation". 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 Database Monitoring is most compared with AppDynamics and AWS X-Ray, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor. See our AppDynamics Database Monitoring vs. Dynatrace report.
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