We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and WhatsUp Gold 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 choice over WhatsUp Gold due to its advanced features such as real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities, as well as AI capabilities for automating incident alerts and the Kubernetes module for topology visualization. Additionally, Dynatrace provides good visibility and thorough scanning of services and applications with the ability to drill down and analyze traffic. Although WhatsUp Gold is stable and cost-effective, it lacks some of the advanced features and capabilities of Dynatrace.
"The solution's ability to assess the severity of anomalies based on the actual impact to users and business KPIs is great. It's exactly what we need. The severity impact is based on the users, the availability, and the impact it has on your business."
"You can always get in touch with support representatives and the developers if you want to, and you can get the solution directly from them. They are good about giving customer service, which I really like."
"Service discovery with artificial intelligence automatic anomaly root cause detection, and problems replay."
"The proactive monitoring that we can do with Dynatrace where it is 24/7 on with all the user experience indexed and everything coming into us."
"Interrelating the logs and infrastructure issues, application issues, DC RUM, everything in one dashboard, saves us time in troubleshooting."
"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."
"The graphical interface is helpful, as it illustrates things well for anyone who wants to know about the information it provides."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of application performance."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"It is stable."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"Infrastructure monitoring could be improved."
"The functionality needs improvement."
"Getting the EM data, we have to open a browser. Generally, one of the asks from our clients or our engineering team is to change this."
"PurePath exports was a great feature in AppMon, but it is sometimes missing in Dynatrace."
"Monitoring asynchronous code requires manual instrumentation (most of the time)."
"Dashboards are too clumsy, so it is good to keep less on dashboards and be easier to find the sections."
"Some of the APIs and integrations are a bit tougher than others to integrate."
"The mobile app provided by Dynatrace could be improved, especially the DCR mobile app because it does not have some of the basic functions, like push notifications or even customized reports."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Dynatrace vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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