We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and SolarWinds Server and Application 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 the superior product when compared to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. It has more advanced features including AI capabilities and better visualization capabilities. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"Dynatrace is stable."
"I can get everything on a single page."
"We can go back to when a specific user had an issue and trace the entire transaction from the client to the database."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to perform synthetic checks for monitoring sites using click paths."
"A monitoring system that can show us code level details."
"It gives you a great level of detail into whatever the issue is: Using troubleshooting and getting to the root cause."
"We can see all the degradation of services in real-time, then we know exactly what the root cause of degradation is."
"We use the solution as a central monitoring tool. We use it to monitor every transaction that has a relation to the organization’s infrastructure."
"This product can monitor application environments no matter where they reside and provides capabilities for deep insight into infrastructure."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"Manage Groups: The capability to group appropriate devices gives better visibility of sites, categories, or critical regions. The same can be used to represent a dashboard for higher management."
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"We sometimes have to run plugins on docker containers."
"A role-based view and a Python monitoring tool would make a simple user interface more usable."
"Scalability has improved quite a bit from the beginning."
"Dynatrace SaaS still lacks configuration API or command line which would allow moving configuration from one tenant to the other."
"They should provide a guide to arrive at the solution for non-super experts."
"Need better mapping to true business service rather than purely technical monitoring."
"Some of the APIs and integrations are a bit tougher than others to integrate."
"It does not have mature enough dashboards."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
"Reporting is the only thing with which we currently have challenges. They have this in two ways. There is the report writer, which is the backend, and we also have web reports, which are on the console. So, they have removed the report writer for the backend reports, and we are making use of the web console, but most of the users are not finding it very interesting to use the frontend reports. I would like them to bring back the report writer. That's the key area within it to improve on the reporting. If they can bring back the report writer, then most users will actually be comfortable. I have some customers who are trying to export their report to an Excel format, but it is not possible because they said any report that has been done from the web console cannot be exported to Excel, but most of the customers need to export their reports to Excel. That's one area they need to work on."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"It should also be easier to upgrade SolarWinds. AppDynamics is harder to deploy but easier to upgrade. So AppDynamics takes a lot of time and effort to install, but you can upgrade it in minutes. SolarWinds is the opposite. It's easy to deploy, but upgrades take forever. To date, nobody can complete it on time, so the production environment is sitting idle."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
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Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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 SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Sentry, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Nagios XI and ServiceNow Discovery. See our Dynatrace vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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