We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Selenium HQ 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."The most valuable features of Dynatrace are the ease of installation and management, as well as its extensibility."
"Reduced incidents, as alert monitoring aids in quicker resolution of events."
"The solution offers a better overview of applications. It offers end-to-end monitoring, and the user experience is real."
"Synthetic Web Monitoring allows us to automatically react to any issues regarding site reliability."
"We found Dynatrace is a robust tool which provides pretty good monitoring for a PCF environment"
"I think one of the most valuable features is the Dynatrace API, for both metrics and configuration."
"It reduces our efforts to identify services failing in production."
"Simplified the way to monitor a medium to big environment."
"The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are it is open-source, has a good interface, and integrates well."
"It is programming language agnostic, you can write tests in most currently used languages."
"The most valuable features are ExpectedConditions, actions, assertions, verifications, flexible rates, and third-party integrations."
"The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to configure a lot of automated processes."
"Selenium's open-source nature is a key advantage. Its extensive support for diverse web technologies."
"Selenuim helps us during testing. We are able to reduce the number and frequency of manual efforts by using scripts."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"We can run multiple projects at the same time and we can design both types of framework, including data-driven or hybrid. We have got a lot of flexibility here."
"I would like a testing module focused on quality gates."
"There are lots of features to share information, but we need to learn to leverage that, both on the web browser and on the mobile app."
"Nginx monitoring service did not work out-of-the-box, so we had to tinker with it for quite some time."
"I would like them to add serverless capabilities, because everyone is going there."
"PurePath exports was a great feature in AppMon, but it is sometimes missing in Dynatrace."
"Mainly navigation needs improvement. It is easier to follow a flow. Following the flow of the admin now is not easy."
"With Dynatrace in our environment, the managed server required root access to run. As a government agency with tight security, this has been an audit concern for us."
"We are happy with the server monitoring, but we feel like the application monitoring should be improved."
"One drawback to Selenium is that there is nothing like an object repository, such as that found in QTP, especially considering continuous integration practices that have become common nowadays."
"Shadow DOM could be improved and the handling of single page applications. Right now, it's a bit complicated and there are a lot of additional scripts required if you want to handle a single page application in a neat way."
"I would like to see a library of bomb files with an automated process and integration with Jenkins and Slack."
"I continuously see failures in threads when it is running in parallel."
"The login could be improved, to obviate the need for relying on another one for integration with Selenium HQ"
"There is no good tool to find the Xpath. They should provide a good tool to find Xpath for dynamic elements and integrate API (REST/ SOAP) testing support."
"Improvement in Selenium's ability to identify and wait for the page/element to load would be a big plus. This would ensure that our failed test cases will drop by 60%."
"There's no in-built reporting available."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Functional Testing Tools with 102 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Continuously being developed and large community makes it easy to find solutions". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and OpenText Silk Test.
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