We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Instana Dynamic APM 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 over Instana Dynamic APM as it offers more comprehensive features and better AI capabilities, and has provided significant ROI through cost savings. While Instana Dynamic APM has a user-friendly GUI and fast implementation, it lacks certain features and detailed information about issues. Dynatrace's higher pricing is outweighed by the benefits of automation and decreased mean time to identification and repair.
"We are using it on most of our platforms, which are on a big scale and across the globe."
"It is a very good APM tool. There is a lot of thorough scanning of services and applications. It has got great monitoring features."
"We're able to tell them which calls, which methods, which interface were the problem."
"Great tool for deep diving into performance data and tracking issues through all the connected systems to better diagnose and pinpoint the real issues."
"Dynatrace helps us to improve overall performance and allows us to detect the root cause of an outbreak on our systems."
"The Recorder for setting up a synthetic monitor is a really great tool for non-technical staff to be able to set up a monitor."
"Since Appmon has been leveraged, we are now down to just hours (sometimes minutes) in resolution times."
"The server monitoring is very accurate in this tool. We are able to prevent many critical Incidents."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"It is a stable solution."
"Improvements in Synthetic monitoring would be great. Certain features of thick client, if available in the web interface, would also be a great improvement."
"Some of the APIs and integrations are a bit tougher than others to integrate."
"Dynatrace has been difficult to set up and use to diagnose problems in the past due to the complex nature of the tool."
"There is a limitation on timeframe. Now, if you look at the dashboard, it will state five minutes, then 15 minutes, then one hour, then six hours, and finally 24 hours. I would like them to provide a set of options defining the business hour."
"There is still a certain amount of technical skills needed to be able to understand what you are seeing on it. You also need a large amount of technical or infrastructure skills to understand how and where to install it."
"PurePath exports was a great feature in AppMon, but it is sometimes missing in Dynatrace."
"It would be nice if there were a way that it could be made simpler, given the complexity of the things that we're monitoring."
"It still has a long way to go to reach that single pane of glass."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"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"
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"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."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 16 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 7 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "Allows us to monitor application performance, underlying infrastructure, and relationships with Smartscape technology". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "Empowering applications with real-time insights and seamless performance". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and SCOM, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with AppDynamics, New Relic, Elastic Observability, IBM Application Performance Management and Datadog. See our Dynatrace vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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