We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Instana Dynamic APM 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 preferred option over Instana Dynamic APM as it offers more comprehensive features and better AI capabilities, and has provided significant ROI through cost savings. While Instana Dynamic APM has a user-friendly GUI and fast implementation, it lacks certain features and detailed information about issues. Dynatrace's higher pricing is outweighed by the benefits of automation and decreased mean time to identification and repair.
"It helps to improve code efficiency and has quicker performance analysis."
"It helps to show where the problem is and isolates the issue."
"The features that we find most valuable are automatic root cause detection, topology discovery, and session replay."
"Smartscape display for ease of visibility, pinpointing a exact problem, and providing necessary details for fixing and even improving on."
"Support was very quick to help us identify a problem and fix it immediately"
"Scalability is outstanding. It won't tax our environment at all as it will scale sideways."
"This tool helps us gather information from all hosts and services, then cross reference the information."
"I think Dynatrace has good integration. I saw an integration with xMatters where, when there's a problem, it can kick out a message to the whomever it is, with xMatters."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"Perhaps there is a FAQ which explains the metrics and how to interpret them, and I just haven't seen it. This would be beneficial in providing context to allow sharing the daily metrics reported within the company."
"Nginx monitoring service did not work out-of-the-box, so we had to tinker with it for quite some time."
"AppMon is lacking the AI that can be found in Dynatrace Managed."
"For the user, for the customer, they expect a solution to be not so expensive."
"The thing that is preventing us from moving forward with Dynatrace right now is that we can't tag our customer traffic with a customizable tag. All of our students have a unique identifier and in AppMon we tag that and we can search by it very easily and it's very useful. But in Dynatrace, you can't yet customize and find people like that, so that's really preventing us. I heard that it's being worked on but I'm not sure when it's coming out."
"We called support mostly about implementation issues. Docker was one which was early on and the support structure for Dynatrace. Typically, they were trying to help us figure out third-party applications and where the monitoring agent should be located."
"A role-based view and a Python monitoring tool would make a simple user interface more usable."
"I'd like to see self-healing and I'd also like to see more automation. It looks like is that's the direction Dynatrace is heading in, in their Dynatrace product."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. 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 Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and SCOM, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with AppDynamics, New Relic, IBM Application Performance Management, Elastic Observability and Datadog. See our Dynatrace vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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