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.
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Dynatrace helped us with root cause analysis of poor performing components of our applications."
"The ability to real-time monitor servers and databases without any major drain on application resources is invaluable."
"PurePath gives a lot of flexibility in identifying issues and finding the flow of execution."
"Once you are trained on the solution, it's easy to navigate. It's got very good documentation and training offerings."
"Email alert and mobile app alert are very useful for informing the team that something is going wrong."
"The monitoring is very good."
"Everybody can show charts and metrics, but Dynatrace’s infographics are amazing. The dashboarding is simply best in class."
"The solution provides a link between different items."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"Session export for offline analysis, like it was in AppMon, would be also nice."
"It needs container log monitoring."
"Filters should have a “negative” option."
"There are a couple gaps in the network reporting that we would like to see cleared up a bit."
"On the one hand we have Dynatrace, on the other hand, we have AppMon. We know Dynatrace is more powerful, with a lot of functions, but there are some core functions AppMon has that Dynatrace needs. Our main use is AppMon and we have not gone to Dynatrace because we don't have those specific functions that we need."
"The one thing I am really missing is the final Azure dashboard."
"I would like to see dashboards included, and maybe more possibilities in terms of customization."
"If Dynatrace is capturing everything in your application, it has to "sense" that information, and that sensing needs sensors which we have to include in our applications. The more you apply sensors - the more details you want - the more you have to increase the level of sensing. If I increase the level of sensing, my application's performance goes down, because something is there that is, again and again, checking each and every thing in the application. So that load on the applications increases. So, many times my applications used to crash because Dynatrace was working on them. We had to remove some sensing; either we had to reduce the sensing or we had to remove Dynatrace immediately."
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 341 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, Sentry, Prometheus, 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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