We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and SolarWinds AppOptics 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."Quick Fault Domain Isolations: When people are having a problem, understanding where to look."
"It severely reduces the time spent doing performance test cycles."
"End-to-end visibility of the applications, since we have them instrumented. Understanding where the hotspots are in the applications."
"The most valuable feature is capture of 100% of the traffic. Also, exposure to downstream services, that might not necessarily be new, to everybody who's using applications. It triggers them and captures them and it gives visibility to some pieces that might be forgotten or even obscured."
"The OneAgent technology does a brilliant job of simplifying what was earlier one of the pain points in enterprise monitoring."
"If you look in the APM sector, it is a very nice package to install."
"Everybody can show charts and metrics, but Dynatrace’s infographics are amazing. The dashboarding is simply best in class."
"We are using it on most of our platforms, which are on a big scale and across the globe."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The extending of Dynatrace with plugins can be better."
"They seriously have to improve their Web UI dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts. Their Web UI dashboards are very slow."
"It needs a better way to figure out how to dig deeper into the details, e.g., sometimes we have to wade through multiple logs, etc."
"We would like to see: * More Integration with cloud services * Simplified licensing * Single pane of glass view * Simplified reporting I* ntegration with ServiceNow and PagerDuty"
"Our environment is very complicated anyway, so the initial setup was a bit of a struggle, but only because we have so many applications and JVMs that we have been working on for long time."
"We would also like to see all the good data in a single view across multiple tools, so that access to integration is critical."
"I would like more flexible data export functions and APIs. The end user experience data is very useful to the solutions team to determine actual system usage and misuse. Flexible, easier data APIs would allow us to export the data more easily to other analytics platforms to enable this analysis as well as enable storage of this data for longer term analysis since DynaTrace only holds user data for 35 days."
"Session export for offline analysis, like it was in AppMon, would be also nice."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while SolarWinds AppOptics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Datadog, New Relic and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Dynatrace vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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