We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and AppDynamics 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. It is praised for its strong AI capabilities, better real-user monitoring and session replay functions, and user-friendly interface. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"The most valuable feature is the ability to take a report, and in particular, a visual, and link it to actual application performance and then the consequences. This means you can show how an incident or action has an effect on the business."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"It's good for a larger scale deployment such as what my company is working on."
"The OneAgent technology does a brilliant job of simplifying what was earlier one of the pain points in enterprise monitoring."
"The main benefit is being able to pinpoint problems."
"Dynatrace can look into application transactions at the packet level, which pretty much relieves us of the work of manually collecting, analyzing, summarizing, and presenting the data, as we had done in the past."
"UEM (User Experience Management) is an optional feature that we acquired and use a lot. It provides indicators from the customer's browser, reflecting more precisely on what our internal users are experiencing."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the level of visibility that you get. I haven't seen anything that gives us that level of visibility yet"
"We found Dynatrace is a robust tool which provides pretty good monitoring for a PCF environment"
"This tool helps us gather information from all hosts and services, then cross reference the information."
"It gives complete stats of the user and what they are doing."
"When you have high stress of visits I do not know if you are more stress because of the amount of visits or because you have to wait eternal 60 seconds to find out it things are going well or you already have mess."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"Installation and configuration can be very tough. An average user without specialized knowledge can't do this. You need to have DevOps and QA teams handle it. During installation, a lot of customers get stuck trying to track the database or the API part, and they have to contact customer support."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"UEM (User Experience Management) works great for web clients and Android and IOS apps, but for other rich clients it's a lot more challenging."
"As we move into using more AWS native architectures, it should support everything that we want to do. We don't want to adopt another tool."
"The functionality needs improvement."
"I would like to see more features from the desktop client included in the web client."
"They should make hooks into some of the more modern performance testing tools a little easier. I think that would go a long way."
"One thing we'd like to see is mobile native replay. They don't have a timeline on it yet, but that's one of the key things we're looking at, to get rid of one of our incumbent products that does replay."
"For an easy view of global and entity-specific configurations, a separate tile or pane aggregating these configurations should be implemented."
"Sometimes we get incidences during the US morning when we are not at the office. If I can get the benefit of a solution, which can alert us and solve itself. It is an automation thing where we do not want to wake up late at night and work on the application."
AppDynamics is ranked 2nd in Container Monitoring with 153 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Container Monitoring with 340 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". AppDynamics is most compared with Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability. See our AppDynamics vs. Dynatrace report.
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