We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and AppDynamics 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 option. It is praised for its strong AI capabilities, better real-user monitoring and session replay functions, and user-friendly interface. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement...It is a very stable solution."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."
"The User experience monitor is a real added value."
"What I like about it, is how it auto-discovers everything rapidly; within a matter of seconds you get to see the business transaction and how it's mapped within the product itself."
"Overall, it has provided improved stability to our system both within prod and non-prod environments."
"It highlights areas that we could be doing better and increases our performance metrics by showing the biggest pain points."
"The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management)."
"The most valuable feature is that we can see every database call executed from Java applications."
"I would give Dynatrace's technical support a 100% rating. I feel like whenever I call or send an email that I get the right person automatically. For the most difficult answers, the most I have to wait is about three days and the answers have been relevant."
"The deployment itself is very easy and straightforward."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"The UI could use a little help."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"Dynatrace must reduce the required resources for on-premise, because they are too high."
"It would help if Dynatrace allowed more features that work with metrics like Grafana or New Relic."
"I need more experience."
"It needs container log monitoring."
"I do know that for the size of our organization, we're talking thousands of agents and hundreds of applications, it does get to the point where the servers themselves that house Dynatrace are at a point where, in some cases, they are just too big for one machine, since you have to have an entire application ecosystem all funnel into a single system."
"We have some issues with react user sessions."
"This tool had a feature of doing load test in production or lower environment, which was shut down earlier this year. We are missing that feature badly and we definitely want to see that feature back."
"I would like to see the same features as in the New Relic Insights in the dashboard. That is the only thing I want to see improved in Dynatrace."
AppDynamics is ranked 2nd in Container Monitoring with 154 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Container Monitoring with 340 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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 is most compared with Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability. See our AppDynamics vs. Dynatrace report.
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