We compared Dynatrace and Splunk Enterprise Security across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Dynatrace is highly regarded for its advanced AI engine and ability to identify infrastructure automatically. It also offers session replay and impressive visualization features. Splunk Enterprise Security stands out for its efficiency, extensive integration options, and powerful search functionality.
Room for Improvement: Some Dynatrace reviewers feel the learning curve is a little steep, and the documentation could be clearer. Users say that Dynatrace should offer more security options and improve integration with other tools. Splunk users recommended improvements in AI capabilities, user-friendliness, and analytics.
Service and Support: Users generally found Dynatrace's customer service to be satisfactory, but some said that the response times and documentation have room for improvement. While some users found Splunk support to be responsive and helpful, others reported slow response times and a lack of expertise.
Ease of Deployment: Dynatrace's setup is simple, efficient, and requires minimal technical configuration. It takes a few hours at most. Some users thought Splunk Enterprise Security was easy to deploy, while others found it challenging and needed assistance from Splunk engineers or third-party integrators.
Pricing: Users say Dynatrace is expensive. Some noted that the licensing model is complicated and not transparent. Some said they struggled to accurately predict the number of units needed. Some users consider Splunk Enterprise Security to be expensive, but others said the price is reasonable. A few users expressed concerns about the cost of scaling up the solution and managing large volumes of data.
ROI: Dynatrace users said the solutions saved them money and reduced downtime. Users said that it’s challenging to calculate an ROI for Splunk Enterprise Security, and the return varies depending on individual circumstances. While some users have observed a substantial ROI, others have not actively explored or been engaged in ROI conversations.
"It alerts us, or can detect, potential problems which are building up."
"We have not had any stability issues with it at all. This has been the most stable solution that I have worked with."
"The most valuable feature the solution offers right now is the PurePath. When we see a web request, and something failing, we can drill down using PurePath."
"The primary use case is to monitor all our applications. We want a single place where we can monitor all our applications that we are building. Therefore, if something goes wrong, we immediately can find out what went wrong."
"It used to take a lot of time to troubleshoot. Now, we can actually see the logs anytime we want. I can just find the problem. It has improved performance from a time perspective."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It has enabled us to have a deeper insight into our application availability and performance."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The connections to the database are very good and updating the data files is simple to do. The dashboards are useful and user-friendly."
"You can check up on security from the dashboards."
"The solution helped reduce our alert volume."
"The solution's newly developed dashboard is pretty amazing."
"Easy to deploy and simple to use."
"It is a one stop shop as a full monitoring and alerting solution for operations and application analysis for most of our back-end systems."
"There are quite a lot of things that we find useful. Splunk agents are useful and good. Its UI is quite impressive."
"The solution is the market leader."
"The AI is not that intelligent and there are different places where it could be even more automated."
"Sometimes we get incidences during the US morning when we are not at the office. If I can get the benefit of a solution, which can alert us and solve itself. It is an automation thing where we do not want to wake up late at night and work on the application."
"Dynatrace needs to improve its configuration."
"An additional feature that we could use is the rollover. If we could rollover to different datacenters, then it would satisfy our requirement. I.e., if one datacenter fails, then we could rollover to another datacenter."
"I would love to see Dynatrace get more involved in the security realm. I get badgered by so many endpoint protection companies. It seems like a natural fit to me, that Dynatrace should be playing in that space."
"Documentation could be improved. E.g., you don't know how to properly use Dynatrace because documentation is almost lacking behind the features being deployed."
"Scalability has improved quite a bit from the beginning."
"There should be more visibility for network performance monitoring. There should be more metrics for things like 5G and IoT. That would be the main thing because they've moved more to mobile performance rather than fixed networks."
"It would be great if I could have a certain dialogue box in Splunk that uses innovative AI tools like ChatGPT, which are available now in the tech department."
"The historical data extraction needs improvement. I would like the capability of taking data and having it trend longer."
"Make it easier to include roles and user controls, as it is horrible now."
"It is a hugely complicated product."
"It needs to improve the way to install third-party apps and enable installation without logging into splunk.com."
"The solution could use a different licensing model."
"It needs more thoroughly tested releases. Every new big version (6, 7, etc.) has had so many bugs that it makes me wary of customers upgrading right away."
"In the next releases, I would like to see more pricing flexibility."
Dynatrace is ranked 4th in Log Management with 341 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 240 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. 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 Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security, Microsoft Sentinel and Datadog. See our Dynatrace vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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As far as I know, Splunk is used as a syslog system only and DynaTrace is an application monitoring system. So you will use Splunk to collect events/logs from servers and devices and you will use DynaTrace to monitor applications and send alerts to end users, provide dashboards etc.
Dynatrace is for APM / ITOM solution. Dynatrace trace can inspect the .net, Java, PHP Program. Splunk is for Log management and SIEM which Dynatrace does not focus on.
They are two different function products.
We use Dynatrace for deep dive transaction tracking to find performance issues of applications. We use Splunk various log analysis tasks mainly in the area of security.
It really depends on the use case. Dynatrace can actually enrich the data collected by Splunk and Dynatrace has an out of the box connection to Splunk. If the goal is application performance and end-user analytics then Dynatrace is the better solution. If the goal is security and threat analytics then Splunk is the right solution.
Splunk and Dynatrace are two different solutions. Most organizations use both of them. Splunk can aggregate logs from Dynatrace. It also depends on what is the purpose of the usage. If you intend to measure end to end application performance and the application logs are instrumenting the metrics, then Splunk alone can do the job. It also allows you to correlate other events like firewall, network and other dependent applications/services.
Dynatrace and Splunk are two different solutions that provide insight from different perspectives. Dynatrace is installed on servers/applications to provide APM and Splunk is more a log and data analytics solution that processes logs (traps/syslog/Windows Events/Firewall Logs/etc.).
Dynatrace provides application performance management (APM), artificial intelligence for operations (AIOps), cloud infrastructure monitoring, and digital experience management (DEM), with products for the information technology departments and digital business owners of medium and large businesses. The company's services include performance management software for programs running on-premises and in the cloud. This software manages the availability and performance of software applications and the impact on user experience in the form of deep transaction tracing, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and network monitoring.
Splunk (the product) captures, indexes, and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.
Splunk makes machine data accessible across an organization by identifying data patterns, providing metrics, diagnosing problems, and providing intelligence for business operations. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.
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