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's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"Dynatrace alerts are based off of deviations from baseline metrics, which it is constantly collecting."
"Auto alerting and reporting on the application and the infrastructure aid us in delivering our service with greater value."
"We leverage on Dynatrace technology to trace and identify issues in the test environment before launching to production."
"The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management)."
"The speed and problem resolution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the level of visibility that you get. I haven't seen anything that gives us that level of visibility yet"
"It has created total transparency between technology and business on all aspects of systems and performance as well as being a proxy for network performance through user experience monitoring. This followed a major performance degradation of our primary frontline system, which highlighted inadequacy of infrastructure focus tools, e.g., Nagios and Zabbix. It helped detect and remediate several performance issues on systems on both vendor supplied packages as well as in-house developed systems. It also improved InfraOps and development teams understanding of system behaviour and performance characteristics."
"Some of the main benefits are being able to quickly identify when transactions start to slow or run into issues, or hiccups if you will."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"We would like to see more dashboarding capabilities and the ability to export custom reports."
"Searches should be faster."
"Scalability has improved quite a bit from the beginning."
"Configuration could be simpler."
"The pricing of the product could be improved."
"There is still a certain amount of technical skills needed to be able to understand what you are seeing on it. You also need a large amount of technical or infrastructure skills to understand how and where to install it."
"Even if the engine can manage a huge amount of data, requests take time to succeed."
"They could spend more time and effort in creating brand awareness."
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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