We performed a comparison between Dynatrace, Instana Dynamic APM, and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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."Automation and anomaly detection has helped reduce MTTR and MTBF."
"Dynatrace provides visibility into the application and its performance from the user to back-end services."
"You can do deep dive analysis and find root cause quickly."
"Comprehensive suite of solutions that can address all aspects of applications from dev to ops."
"The most valuable features are ease of deployment, UI, and collected data. Its deployment is really easy. In just a few hours, you can have a very good outcome, and you can see everything, which is very valuable. It collects a good amount of data."
"It gives us all the data on all the calls, which is something that is very different from any other APM solution that I have seen or used in the past."
"Synthetic Web Monitoring allows us to automatically react to any issues regarding site reliability."
"We're able to tell them which calls, which methods, which interface were the problem."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"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."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"The application dependency feature identifies issues between applications and servers or within the network where the application is hosted. It highlights related problems, whether related to packet processing or other issues, enabling the creation of alerts and reports accordingly."
"Solarwinds has an open database that allows you to do serious integrations. It doesn't matter which service desk you have, you can implement and integrate it with SolarWinds."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"The dashboarding process and creating measures and metrics, it needs to be made a little bit easier and more simplified. "
"Nginx monitoring service did not work out-of-the-box, so we had to tinker with it for quite some time."
"The other feature that Dynatrace should have is - from what I see in Dynatrace in our PoC - when you auto-upgrade the agents, the JVM or the application has to be restarted. But if you have something like an "auto-attach" feature, to attach the agent for the running process, it would not require a JVM restart. That would be nicer. That is a killer point."
"I would like to see dashboards included, and maybe more possibilities in terms of customization."
"Needs support for more technologies."
"Alert triggers could be easier to setup and more granular."
"Network monitoring is lacking and could be improved."
"The one thing I do not like about Dynatrace is that their web dashboards are very very slow. They seriously have to improve their web dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"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."
"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"SAM's software-defined network monitoring capability is also low and could be improved."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
"Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc."
"There is one feature that is a report writer. And they are currently trying to take it out from being a stand-alone application and integrating to the web. This doesn't give us the flexibility and it doesn't expand what we can get when it comes to reporting. So, putting it on the web is going to make it difficult to get some information. Leaving it where it is now will help us a lot."
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