We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and SolarWinds Server and Application 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 the superior product when compared to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. It has more advanced features including AI capabilities and better visualization capabilities. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"Finds issues that previously occupied people for months."
"The PurePath feature enables you to see the path from click to database query."
"The best feature of the product for me is the real troubleshooting capability through the PurePath analysis."
"Enables me to proactively understand the user experience on our site."
"Synthetic Web Monitoring allows us to automatically react to any issues regarding site reliability."
"This solution has helped our organization on multiple occasions. The synthetic monitor came in particularly handy."
"It reduces our efforts to identify services failing in production."
"This tool enables us to make intelligent, fact-based decisions faster."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"We use the solution as a central monitoring tool. We use it to monitor every transaction that has a relation to the organization’s infrastructure."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value."
"The solution can be deployed quickly."
"The most valuable feature is application monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"The solution is end-to-end from the network and the application to the processes. Everything about the enterprise infrastructure is being covered by the solution. It's easy to use and easy to navigate and one of the leaders among monitoring solutions."
"Experience with relationship/account manager has been really poor, it does not seem to be the firm's priority to support their customers."
"The flexibility when it comes to integrating with other tools is very low."
"There are lots of features to share information, but we need to learn to leverage that, both on the web browser and on the mobile app."
"I would like to see the ability to pull more user-friendly reports."
"Dashboarding and having different templates available for more business reporting, or even other metrics, would be useful."
"Even if the engine can manage a huge amount of data, requests take time to succeed."
"The only challenge is that it's an extensive tool that requires a significant amount of time to learn."
"I would like to have something more along the lines of the old DC RUM, because we have lot of clients with old technologies, legacy technology, and we really want to integrate it with Dynatrace so that they can use just one single product. So, it needs better integration with legacy products."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."
"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."
"Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
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Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Sentry, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Nagios XI and ServiceNow Discovery. See our Dynatrace vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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