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.
"It is a stable solution."
"Technical support is helpful."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"From the performance management side, I like everything from business transaction work to tracking. On the database side, we can get a lot of insights from the database. On the server monitoring side, it helped us a lot to find out some of the issues on the VM side because VMs were creating a little trouble for us."
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"It gives complete stats of the user and what they are doing."
"The most valuable things that we have seen are the user experience and capturing what the users are doing inside the browser."
"Reduced MTTR, thanks to smart problem detection and automated root cause analysis."
"We can go back to when a specific user had an issue and trace the entire transaction from the client to the database."
"Support was very quick to help us identify a problem and fix it immediately"
"We’re monitoring our SQL databases, we’re monitoring our microservices infrastructure, we’re monitoring our front-end we’re monitoring our mobile apps. It has increased our productivity, we’ve been able to optimize all of our applications."
"Global overview of all app layers, including web servers."
"During the building of a system that is new, there are a lot of bugs. Being in the cloud it is very difficult, sometimes, to diagnose where the issues are. Dynatrace gives us that deep insight into errors."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"This solution is expensive."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"When the tool ingests data from other tools, being able to correlate those with the existing topology, so that the AI engine can draw more conclusions in case Dynatrace does not monitor those instances."
"The extending of Dynatrace with plugins can be better."
"Improvements are needed in the navigation and timeframe selection when browsing problems."
"Include network monitoring in more detail for deep dive analytics of network components."
"Every time we spin up an EC2 instance, we have to slap an agent on it and that is more work. So, if it could go agentless, that would be great."
"The one area that we get value out of now, where we would love to see additional features, is the Session Replay. The ability to see how one individual uses a particular feature is great. But what we'd really like to be able to see is how a large group of people uses a particular feature. I believe Dynatrace has some things on its roadmap to add to Session Replay that would allow us those kinds of insights as well."
"Our main problems have been that it has a high learning curve to it. I've used it for about three years now and I'm still learning it. There are some videos and there is some documentation out there, but it still requires you to delve into the tool to learn it. A little bit more comprehensive self-paced training would help."
"We do not have any web monitoring with Dynatrace."
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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