We compared Dynatrace and Splunk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users appreciate Dynatrace's ability to track real users, AI capabilities, proactive feedback, and cost savings. It also provides a comprehensive view of infrastructure topology and microservices interaction. Users find it easy to manage, with a user-friendly interface and scalability. Dynatrace needs improvements in testing modules, cost reduction display, accessibility, user interface, and time zone handling. Despite some difficulties in pricing and licensing, users have seen a positive return on investment with Dynatrace.
"We have been capturing all the information and evaluating whether it can be improved or not."
"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."
"Dynatrace helped us with root cause analysis of poor performing components of our applications."
"We have identified and solved "mystery" issues that we have experienced for a long time, including sporadic latency issues on storage volumes and SQL databases not scaling properly when under certain loads."
"I'm also involved on the practical side, putting in all the automation, that automation platform. To have a tool like Dynatrace, where I don't have to work out for hours how to configure and set up alerts and monitoring - especially in a solution that is not completed yet - it's not only a major time-saver, but I know going forward that it will be able to learn how the system operates. Day one, we're getting all of that stuff for free, out-of-the-box."
"If you look in the APM sector, it is a very nice package to install."
"The stability for the solution is pretty solid overall."
"We also use it in our performance testing. We found an issue that way, and we would have put that change live without Dynatrace. Finding that problem in "live", that would have been three or four days of investigation, whereas we found the issue, fixed the issue, reran the tests, all same day."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"It needs container log monitoring."
"In the new Dynatrace solution, support for legacy applications is still not there. "
"This solution needs more powerful database monitoring capabilities."
"Dashboards and monitoring capabilities can be improved for monitoring applications in Azure. In Azure, it would be cool to be able to monitor network consumption as well as flow communication."
"The only challenge is that it's an extensive tool that requires a significant amount of time to learn."
"Log analytics in the classic synthetic and RUM tools would be a great addition."
"SSO options are missing."
"Configuring nodes and agents should be more like plug and play."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. 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 APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Grafana. See our Dynatrace vs. Splunk APM report.
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