We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The NeoLoad plugin is awesome, and it gets results from load tests correlated with test scenarios."
"One of the features that sets this product apart from its competitors is that it generates a solution."
"Dynatrace covers the important tiers and allows us to quickly find trends and root causes in all our critical application lifecycle steps"
"The User Sessions Query language has definitely been the most helpful with its key user actions and user session properties. Using those together, that has completely transformed how we're able to identify customers and their problems on our site. It has made a very big impact over the year."
"Support from Dynatrace is excellent. They are always on hand for any queries, demos, and/or issues."
"The product allows us to build preferred/customized business transactions to track complex transactions. UEM (User Experience Monitoring) agents track user experience on webRequests. The advantage is that Dynatrace correlates the measures on the devices with those on the backend servers, giving us an end-to-end view of the transaction, from the user's phone deep into the backend servers."
"The visibility that it provides through the application's behavior allows us to find trends based on our customized metrics."
"It alerts us, or can detect, potential problems which are building up."
"Selenuim helps us during testing. We are able to reduce the number and frequency of manual efforts by using scripts."
"The solution is free to use."
"In general, I would say that the API set is the most valuable feature."
"The stability and performance are good."
"It is very stable."
"Ability to integrate with every other tool."
"Some of the most valuable features of this solution are open-source, they have good support, good community support, and it supports multiple languages whether you use C-Sharp or not. These are some of the most important benefits."
"The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to configure a lot of automated processes."
"Some of the analytics that you get in, e.g., a waterfall analysis of a web page could be clearer. A lot of that is not directly attributable to Dynatrace. Sometimes a vendor will implement a tag or JavaScript plugin that's named something entirely different than what it does. This makes it difficult to track that from the waterfall list, figure out where exactly that component is, and dig more into what it's doing. Dynatrace could probably improve a bit on that waterfall layout to make it clearer as to what exactly is there. It does a wonderful job of telling you what loads and when, but it could be improved in terms of telling me what exactly it is loading."
"Cloud monitoring is insufficient. We would prefer Dynatrace to make more partnerships with major cloud applications like Salesforce, C4C, etc."
"It's not very scalable, we cannot add another server onto it."
"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."
"We would like the AI to produce more scientific data with less configuration."
"One thing that would help it tighter integration with DCRUM. It's somewhat difficult to drill down and see everything, but I think that's in the future versions. We just haven't seen that yet."
"I would like to see income monitoring for the servers and infrastructure monitoring."
"We found it was quite challenging in terms of the learning curve."
"Selenium Grid set-up is bit complex."
"Technical support isn't very good. Sometimes their recommendations were not very clear."
"It would be very great if Selenium would provide some framework examples so newcomers could get started more quickly."
"There is no good tool to find the Xpath. They should provide a good tool to find Xpath for dynamic elements and integrate API (REST/ SOAP) testing support."
"You need to have experience in order to do the initial setup."
"The latest versions are often unstable."
"For people that don't know about technology, maybe it's difficult to use."
"Could have additional readability and abstraction."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 5th in Functional Testing Tools with 103 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Selenium HQ 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 Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Automation Anywhere (AA).
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