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.
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"We can see which step in a transaction is causing latency, right down to the particular Java class"
"Never seen anything so complex be so simple to install."
"The most valuable feature is the 360-degree view for monitoring, infrastructure, and application worlds."
"Dynatrace provides probable root cause for any issues which assists our support team to quickly address issues identified by Dynatrace."
"We have used Dynatrace in our performance testing environments to get ahead of issues before they make it into production."
"Dynatrace is heavily automated which is a big advantage. You don't have to configure a lot, it installs and it runs straight away. There's direct return on investment and you can focus on more interesting stuff than always have to configure and change the configurations. Issues or problems in detection is also fully automated, which is great."
"We use the Dynatrace AI to assess impact. Because it links to real users, it is generally pretty correct in terms of when it raises an incident. We determine the severity by how many users it is affecting, then we use it as business justification to put a priority on that alert."
"Dynatrace alerts are based on deviations from the reference metrics which are constantly collected."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"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."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"It requires manual intervention to uninstall the cloud agent from servers you want it removed from."
"We're thinking about moving to Dynatrace because AppMon is not scaling for us."
"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."
"PurePath exports was a great feature in AppMon, but it is sometimes missing in Dynatrace."
"Possibly include some network monitoring capabilities."
"The challenge with AppMon is, what if you don't have an AppMon agent on a host, but it talks to the database. It talks to it, but I don't have either a host agent or an AppMon agent on it. That has been a challenge, but I believe the Dynatrace agent, the OneAgent, will solve that, potentially."
"I would like the ability to export a user session into csv format. (I am aware that I can export a user session via a webhook)."
"Filters should have a “negative” option."
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 340 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, Prometheus, Sentry, 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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