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.
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"AppDynamics makes it much easier for us to detect problems or issues before they become problems. We have alerting on all of our business transactions."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement...It is a very stable solution."
"The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"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."
"Dynatrace AppMon has allowed a deep dive review of performance problems in near real-time for our primary external website and related web apps and web services."
"The real-user monitoring is mostly used to gauge the difference in performance for multitenant applications, This is so we can discern if there are any local network or client-facing issues when we do a comparison between each customer. It is quite important for us to be able to identify a client-side issue, as opposed to a feature managed problem, because we're essentially providing managed services of business applications."
"The installation and configuration were very straightforward and nice."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you can drill down to the code level and get a breadth of information."
"Provides one consolidated view on application performance."
"Reduced incidents, as alert monitoring aids in quicker resolution of events."
"Our main use is to monitor our applications for any issues that might arise and use the data to assure that our performance trending is headed in the right direction."
"We are able to drill down and detect what the problems are; providing high-quality performance monitoring."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"AppDynamics is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"The integration part in AppDynamics with other systems is an area with a little difficulty, especially when it comes to the configuration area. The integration of AppDynamics with other products takes a lot of time."
"The new Managed Edition is too complex. I feel like a fish out of water."
"For an easy view of global and entity-specific configurations, a separate tile or pane aggregating these configurations should be implemented."
"The GUI has the most room for improvement. Sometimes, it can be a little cumbersome to find things and be able to create your own views, or be able to dig in and understand where things are."
"Hard to use for beginners, to setup and explore."
"Nginx monitoring service did not work out-of-the-box, so we had to tinker with it for quite some time."
"Make sure older frameworks, like PHP 5.3, are supported."
"Documentation could be improved. E.g., you don't know how to properly use Dynatrace because documentation is almost lacking behind the features being deployed."
"Enterprise Synthetic of DC RUM can be made more robust."
AppDynamics is ranked 2nd in Container Monitoring with 24 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Container Monitoring with 16 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Good tracing capabilities and helpful technical support but needs better analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "Allows us to monitor application performance, underlying infrastructure, and relationships with Smartscape technology". 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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