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Updated on Jun 27, 2023

We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Alluvio Aternity based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Ease of Deployment: Dynatrace's setup process is generally easy, except for the Managed version, which requires more technical expertise. Navigation can be a bit tedious, but maintenance is natural. On the other hand, Alluvio Aternity is simple to use and requires minimal configuration. With just one engineer, it can be deployed in about a week.
  • Features: Dynatrace offers real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring features, while Alluvio Aternity provides insights into machine health and performance, including usage patterns for desktop applications. Aternity's DXI feature allows for customization and prioritization of improvements, while Dynatrace's AI capabilities automate incident alerts. Both solutions offer good visibility, but Dynatrace's Kubernetes module for topology visualization is a standout feature.
  • Pricing: Dynatrace's pricing is confusing and lacks transparency, while Alluvio Aternity's pricing is fair but can be expensive in some markets.
  • Service and Support: Reviews for Dynatrace's customer service were mixed, with some positive experiences and others feeling that support could be faster. On the other hand, Alluvio Aternity's support was highly competent and responsive, with quick issue resolution and local support available. However, technical queries may require assistance from overseas engineers.
  • ROI: Dynatrace was praised for its ability to provide significant ROI through automation, feedback, and cost savings. On the other hand, Alluvio Aternity was criticized for its difficult-to-measure ROI as it operates on the expense side and doesn't generate revenue.

Comparison Results: Dynatrace is the preferred option over Alluvio Aternity due to its more comprehensive features such as real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities, as well as AI capabilities for automating incident alerts and topology visualization. While Alluvio Aternity provides valuable data on machine health and performance, users suggest that it could benefit from more customizable reporting options and detailed performance counters. 

To learn more, read our detailed Alluvio Aternity vs. Dynatrace Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Q&A Highlights
Question: APM tools for a Managed Service Provider - Dynatrace vs. AppDynamics vs. Aternity vs. Ruxit
Answer: Hi Avi! It's great to see your thorough approach to selecting an APM package for your MSP company. Considering your focus on SMBs and enterprises in Israel, Dynatrace seems like a solid choice with its strong local support. AppDynamics is a familiar name and Aternity brings a fresh perspective, although Ruxit might need a closer look for MSP compatibility. Keep in mind the unique needs of your clients and the pricing model that aligns best. Check out this link (https://www.cleveroad.com/mana...) for additional insights into managed IT services that might complement your APM selection process.
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Pros
"The dashboards of this platform are the most valuable, especially the Desktop Health dashboard.""The item we use the most and what upper management wants is the SLA reports. It's a good summary of how the applications are performing over time from month to month.""The most valuable features for us are the Incident Management dashboard, Application Status dashboard, and Activity Analysis UI.""The two most valuable features for us are its abilities to validate the customer experience and to measure performance before and after upgrades.""Desktop monitoring, and being able to understand the performance of applications that runs on the desktop.""The user experience it provides is the most valuable feature for us.""DEM-Q (Digital Experience Management Quadrant) is very useful. This is where they stand out with their dashboard, because it gives us a picture of how our company is doing compared to the other businesses out there.""Aternity easily provides visibility of all the endpoint machines to my clients."

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"Synthetic Web Monitoring allows us to automatically react to any issues regarding site reliability.""It reduces time and provides detailed info, showing problem correlation, and a single point of diagnosis.""The main benefit is being able to pinpoint problems.""UEM can be used for user impact analysis and troubleshooting.""Simple classic but effective UI (unlike some modern UI's out there that have too much white-space)""The most valuable feature of the solution would be the level of visibility that you get. I haven't seen anything that gives us that level of visibility yet""Mean time to root cause analysis decreased drastically.""We can see each session, end-to-end, and discover issues."

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Cons
"I think the workflow needs improvement""The licensing model doesn't suit the market we are in and has room for improvement.""Its user interface and features should be improved. They don't support new versions of certain Linux editions. That is one of the reasons why we have to move to another solution.""The solution is available at a higher price than other solutions.""Reports were a lot easier in the older versions""The only thing I can say which has been frustrating are the Tableau workspace/dashboard options out-of-the-box, at least prior to version 8.""When it comes to a lot of the features that I would want, they will tell you they are in their SaaS version, which we don't use... They put all the new features on the SaaS solution and that's where you get the latest and greatest stuff... Why not have those features available for on-prem users?""Aternity doesn't currently provide metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps. It's something you have to build out. It's not 'canned' that way and there is a lot of configuration that you have to do to the environment to collect the data you want to collect and that is important to you."

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"In the new Dynatrace solution, support for legacy applications is still not there. ​""Due to the fact that you doing a lot, you have a problem with the learning curve. We're really looking for ways to make this product more accessible.""If you want to see a month's data, it keeps on spinning. Here is an improvement which needs to happen, which is the case with all applications or tools. There is a lot of data, and either we have to change the way we are logging or the application needs to be enhanced.""We have had some struggles with scaling. We were on AppMon, and AppMon has its own monolithic drawbacks.""We had one issue when we tried to enter one agent and it just does not work. We got to work with the highest level of support, but it took a while to get there.""An area for improvement would be security. In the next release, I'd like to see more network-centric capabilities - Dynatrace is good at the network level, but I have to leverage other network solutions and integrate with them, but a holistic approach including the network as a one-stop-shop would be great.""The dashboarding in Dynatrace is not very good. We have used other monitoring tools like AppDynamics. We are also using AppDynamics for some of our products. If I compare Dynatrace with those monitoring tools, the dashboarding is not as good. If I have to create a dashboard it takes me time, the experience is not that good.""The other feature that Dynatrace should have is - from what I see in Dynatrace in our PoC - when you auto-upgrade the agents, the JVM or the application has to be restarted. But if you have something like an "auto-attach" feature, to attach the agent for the running process, it would not require a JVM restart. That would be nicer. That is a killer point."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Our management squeezed Aternity pretty hard on the pricing, in my opinion a little too much. I advise negotiating for sure, but I do think it left kind of a sour taste in Aternity’s mouth that we were being so pushy despite the fact that we were only purchasing a small number of licenses."
  • "It’s a little on the costly side, but if you license intelligently, accounting for your various hosts connecting in through VDI or terminal servers, you can make it well worth your money."
  • "If the scale of your monitoring will be to go everywhere in an organization, a site license is key."
  • "Pricing is a bit high. Don't take that as the "be all, end all"."
  • "In my opinion they are asking a lot for their SaaS solution, but I also know that that's the direction they're going... The current, on-prem solution is probably a fair price."
  • "The pricing for the users and agents is reasonable compared to other solutions and vendors."
  • "Regarding cost, compared to other solutions, Aternity is pretty low. It's definitely lower-cost than others that we looked at, like Nexthink."
  • "The pricing is fair."
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  • "Pricing is based on the number of servers monitored, so for big applications, it is a bit expensive."
  • "Licensing is a bit complicated for Dynatrace, and pricing is dependent on how much your organization invests."
  • "We found an issue within the first week of ownership that has been costing us more than the entire license cost."
  • "Product pricing can seem a little over complex, however this is minor and does not detract from the benefits of the solution."
  • "Getting the first agents installed, getting information, and coverage in a initial set of systems can be done in hours and with a low cost entry point."
  • "Price (of the product) is a major concern for all the clients I work with."
  • "The licensing model is confusing in solutioning clients for the number of hosts needed to deploy."
  • "The product is superior to others, but it comes with a price tag that is often difficult to position back to clients."
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    Answers from the Community
    Anonymous User
    it_user409614 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user409614 (Data Analyst with 10,001+ employees)
    Vendor

    We did a trial of the Dynatrace vs AppDynamics vs New Relic Real User
    Monitoring tools and based on this we selected New Relic, mainly because of
    their powerful Insights tool that easily allows you to create your own
    dashboards / alert using a variant of SQL.

    Since we acquired the RUM tool (Browser) we have trialled their APM tool
    which we are currently appraising vs our existing CA APM tool (Introscope)
    - early signs are encouraging for New Relic.

    After 9 months we have found the New Relic tools that we use to be very
    useful and they have excellent post implementation support.

    Being SAAS only has not been an issue, and for example on Black Friday
    their tools did not slowdown at all.

    it_user469245 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user469245 (Works)
    Vendor

    Hello,

    Thank you all for the very kind and informative comments.

    Some ideas regarding the requirement list.
    Looking at a high level, the requirement list will contain:
    - This is strategic tool, so go after the big/leading names.
    - Easy remote deployment& management.
    - Quick learning curve and strong local support.
    - Flexible& competitive pricing model.

    Technically speaking:
    - Client side application level support: Browser based, Mobile Native App., Smart (Fat..) desktop
    applications (mainly in Microsoft environment - .Net , C#).
    - Client side Operating Systems: Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Win7 and up).
    - Server side Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
    - Virtualization: Microsoft, VMware,Citrix.
    - Various server side applications (DB,ESB, HDFS....).

    -Features:
    Easy to set thresholds and automatic "trigger to action" capabilities.
    Management console that can show information from a different customers in an easy way.

    Another question I struggled with:
    How do you deal with Information Security issues of remote connection to the client's production environments (both technical and business agreement aspects) ?

    Best,
    Avi

    it_user364554 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user364554 (COO with 51-200 employees)
    Vendor

    Avi,
    How are you ?
    I am Elad and I am the COO at Correlsense.
    HQ in Boston and R&D site in Israel we have a very extensive partnership program that we have signed with companies that have the offering you describe here.
    Would be happy to talk : eladk@correlsense.com
    I am looking forward to talking to you.
    Regards,

    Diego Caicedo Lescano - PeerSpot reviewerDiego Caicedo Lescano
    Real User

    Hi Avi,

    A lot of technical aspects had been discussed, but in my experience the most valued features include>

    Multi Tenancy
    Service Level Management Module is mandatory which supports service, calendars, offerings, etc.

    Another great feature is the monitoring tool, which must support agent and agentless deployment

    The thing is:

    Measure -> Manage -> Improve

    it_user172986 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user172986 (Works)
    Vendor

    Hi,

    What about Correlsense?

    Thier APM product is called Sharepath and they are based in Israel.

    Good luck

    it_user446577 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user446577 (Sr Solutions Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees)
    Real User

    Hi Avi,

    I AM biased working for CA Technologies but have you considered us?
    We have recently released some highly innovative updates to our APM suite and work with quite a number of MSPs globally - I think you would be pleasantly surprised if we had a chance to take you through our capabilities.

    Kind Regards

    Paul Casaneanu
    CA Technologies

    it_user473361 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user473361 (Co-Founder at a tech services company)
    Consultant

    Hi Avi,

    My name is Gil and I've been working with APM solutions since 2005 when it just began. In my experience, it is most important for you to define your requirements from the APM platform, besides its pricing, before starting to evaluate solutions.

    Let me give you some examples:
    - Do you need to provide useful information for developers when there is an application problem and pin point the problem ?
    - Do you need to monitor the full end to end user experience of global customers accessing sites and mobile apps for your customers and also gain some insights about the specific user session ?
    - What technologies are required to be monitored ?
    - Can you install anything on the client machines (if not - for example Aternity is not on the table) ?
    - Do you need some auto discovery capabilities with regards to architectures, data flows, dynamic baselines, etc. ?

    So you see, there isn't a simple answer. That being said, from my experience in the past 5 years, I found the Dynatrace platform the be the most complete one, and suited for both small and large companies. Additionally, the fact that it has 750 people in R&D makes me sleep well at night when my customers are using this platform. I don't have a hands on experience with AppD or Atternity, but have seen the customers comparing Dynatrace to them and heard about their reasons for making a choice.

    Hope this helps,

    Gil

    it_user418716 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user418716 (Works at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees)
    Vendor

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise is another APM vendor you might consider. HPE is an innovator in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and that rating is based upon advanced user experience monitoring capability as well as a wide range of SLA management features – both critical for an MSP.

    HPE AppPulse APM excels at User Experience Monitoring. Its capabilities extend beyond just identifying the user action that precedes a problem into mapping out the entire “User Flow”. This enables you to see all of the transaction steps that the user follows to initiate their transaction.

    Since there are usually multiple flows that a user can choose from while starting from the same initial action, so that you’re able to determine if any of you user flow paths are more problematic than others. Listing the initiating user action alone, as most of the other products do, isn’t enough to show you which transactions the action has impacted and which are fine.
    This creates a 3D view of user interaction versus the more 2D picture that pointing to the user action provided by competitive offerings creates.

    Another very strong capability for MSPs that HPE APM provides is SLA management. HPE AppPulse Active provides a range of SLA alerts, notifications, and reports to enable you to continuously monitor SLA compliance for all of the app environments under management.
    These SLA management capabilities along with scripting capability based on HPE LoadRunner TruClient and VuGen technologies and allows load test to be run against apps in production using the same protocols used in QA/Test.

    HPE Mobile Center, which is part of HPE’s ADM software suite along with LoadRunner and StormRunner, enables you to capture test scripts directly from actual mobile devices and then use them for pre-production load testing as well as within AppPulse Active APM in production.
    Overall, this provides the most comprehensive range of performance management and testing tools available to enable you to ensure optimum service for your customers. You can also offer them additional service capabilities to enable them to support “bring your own device”, web apps and enterprise app monitoring.

    Most of the HPE APM products are offered as SaaS offerings to make them very affordable for your SMB customers to whom overall cost is critical. They also offer very intuitive point and click web interfaces, which makes them easy for Line of Business users to use.

    Best of all, all HPE APM products are developed in Israel. Our team there would be glad to assist you in implementing your MSP programs. We also have numerous reference customers in Israel to whom you could speak to obtain their insights about HPE APM products. That can also enable rapid local support which might be critical for ensuring your business success.

    Tom Fisher
    HPE APM
    tfisher@hpe.com

    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Hi Avi! It's great to see your thorough approach to selecting an APM package for your MSP company. Considering your focus on SMBs and enterprises in Israel, Dynatrace seems like a solid choice with… more »
    Top Answer:The dashboard is very effective.
    Top Answer:The solution's price is pretty comparable to the industry.
    Top Answer:The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not… more »
    Top Answer:While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything else… more »
    Top Answer:There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra… more »
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    Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity
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    Overview

    Alluvio Aternity full-spectrum Digital Experience Management provides insight into the business impact of customer and employee digital experience by capturing and storing technical telemetry at scale from employee devices, every type of business application, and your cloud-native application service.

    It also helps you resolve issues quickly by showing you response time breakdown between client device, network, and application back ends. Aternity provides AI-powered visibility into the end user experience of every cloud, SaaS, thick client, or enterprise mobile app, whether it runs on a virtual, physical, or mobile device.

    Aternity Features

    Aternity has many valuable features, including:

    • Automatic discovery of every application in your enterprise portfolio, including SaaS and Shadow IT apps.
    • Click to render - measuring users' interactions with applications in the context of a business process.
    • Change validation - validating the impact of any type of device, application, or infrastructure change on end user experience.
    • Self-healing - automated remediation actions to recover from the most commonly expected user experience issues.
    • Anomaly detection - proactive notification of end-user issues
    • Transaction tracing of distributed applications - including cloud-native apps, via OpenTelemetry
    • Application troubleshooting - identify the cause of application issues

    Aternity Benefits

    Some of the biggest advantages the Aternity offers include:

    • Resolve problems quickly: With Aternity, you can monitor client-side latency, analyze the health and key metrics of the end user’s device, and correlate app performance to the virtual systems they are running on.
    • Reduce virtualization sprawl: Aternity helps you eliminate under-utilized resources with its ability to correlate the inventory of virtual desktop infrastructure to actual usage.
    • Experience level agreement (XLA): Aternity’s XLA feature can help your organization prove quality of service. Specifically, the XLA validates that business activity performance across all applications meets expectations by geography, department, and data center.
    • Mitigate IT transformation risk: Aternity helps you achieve success of both strategic and tactical IT initiatives.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Aternity users.

    PeerSpot user Ryan P., Head of Cyber Security Engineering & Oversight at a media company, says, "The most valuable thing that you get from Aternity is very broad visibility. You get visibility of your network, of your endpoints, of your software usage, your application performance, capacity, in one pane of glass. We had 20 to 30 IT tools, including application performance monitoring, network monitoring, security, endpoint detection, network protection, capacity management, service management — every kind of monitoring you can imagine. But Aternity was always the first place that I turned for anything, because you can see everything in it."

    An Endpoint Administration Manager at a financial services firm mentions, “It gives you the ability to filter the comparison by geography, industry, or company size.” He also adds, “We have absolutely seen ROI. It's really given us a very high level of visibility that we've just not ever had.”

    A Regional Network Manager at a recruiting/HR firm comments, "Aternity provides metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps, rather than just a few. It does some out-of-the-box monitoring for the Office suite, but you can create custom monitoring for any of your applications, whether a web client or a desktop application."

    A Sr. IT Manager at a manufacturing company states, "The most valuable feature is the application performance troubleshooting because Aternity is able to provide the performance from the end-user perspective. It doesn't just give the standard application logon time, etc., rather it's also able to measure the performance inside the application, the performance of specific transactions in the application, and break it down into three elements: the client time, the network time, and the server time. This gives us a lot of insights into what we need to focus on to improve the performance of an application."

    Dynatrace is an AI-powered software intelligence monitoring platform that accelerates digital transformation and simplifies cloud complexities. Dynatrace is an entirely automated full-stack solution that provides data and answers about the performance of your applications and deep insight into every transaction throughout every application, including the end-user experience. By modernizing and automating enterprise cloud operations, users can deliver an optimal digital experience with higher quality software to customers faster.

    Dynatrace offers an all-in-one automated artificial intelligence solution that brings together application performance, cloud and infrastructure, and digital experience monitoring. Dynatrace accelerates performance-driven results through operations, development, and business teams with a shared metrics platform. In addition, users are provided a full-stack monitoring experience with three patented technologies:

    • Smartscape - visualization mechanism that maps the totality of everything working in your environment and detects any casual dependencies between your applications, processes, websites, services, hosts, cloud infrastructure, and networks.

    • OneAgent - a technology that analyzes, gathers ,and unifies all business performance metrics throughout every layer of your technology stack.

    • PurePath Technology - code-level context and timings are captured from the mainframe to the cloud for all end-to-end transactions.

    What does Dynatrace offer?

    Dynatrace redefines how organizations monitor their digital ecosystems. The solution offers:

    • Cloud Automation: With AI engine Davis®, users can see the exact reason for problems and facilitate quick auto-remediation and intelligent cloud orchestration.

    • Application Security: With automated application vulnerability management, users can deliver applications faster and more securely.

    • Infrastructure Monitoring: Convenient broad visibility across your environments is provided with streamlined, automated infrastructure monitoring.

    • Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): Optimize your applications, provide better support, and improve user experience with a combination of Real User Monitoring (RUM), Session Replay, and synthetic monitoring throughout your environment.

    • Applications and Microservices: For complex cloud environments, Dynatrace can automatically provide visibility and root-cause answers. It can also monitor microservices.

    • Digital Business Analytics: Get AI-powered, real-time answers to analytical business queries with KPIs and metrics that are already flowing through applications.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Dynatrace is the only solution that provides answers to organizations based on deep insight into each user, transaction, and organization's environment.

    Barry P., a managing performance engineer at Medica Health Plans, writes, "With Dynatrace, we have synthetic checks and real-user monitoring of all of our websites, places where members and providers can interact with us over the web. We monitor the response times of those with Dynatrace, and it's all integrated into one place."

    A consultant at a tech service company notes, "A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."

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    Computer Software Company9%
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    Insurance Company9%
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    Midsize Enterprise11%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Alluvio Aternity vs. Dynatrace
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Alluvio Aternity vs. Dynatrace and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Alluvio Aternity is ranked 4th in Mobile APM with 37 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Mobile APM with 340 reviews. Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". 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". Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Nexthink, SysTrack, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Dynatrace report.

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