We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM 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 Recorder for setting up a synthetic monitor is a really great tool for non-technical staff to be able to set up a monitor."
"It identifies problem areas and performance issues."
"The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management)."
"We are able to get insights into our systems, which previously took us weeks to be able to detect."
"The product installs quickly and immediately. It begins to learn the architecture of the systems which need to be monitored. It then learns what “normal” looks like, so there really is no need for manual configuration."
"Dynatrace provides probable root cause for any issues which assists our support team to quickly address issues identified by Dynatrace."
"Scalability is great. My biggest concern when we first put it in was the resources that it would take up, network traffic that it might create. But it seems perfectly scalable to any environment. Even on some of our heaviest use servers, it doesn't seem to affect anything."
"Improves the ability to isolate issues and determine root cause with the same tool."
"Provides a good level of tools and covers essential components."
"What I've found most valuable about the solution is that it's scalable."
"I love the GUI. Almost everything is accessible through the web interface. It is very user-friendly. It is easy to drag and drop resources wherever you want them."
"Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerts."
"I can do everything remotely, including running PowerShell scripts or performing standard updates."
"The ability to quickly identify downtime is the most valuable."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"Monitoring asynchronous code requires manual instrumentation (most of the time)."
"The integration of the tools is getting there. It is still not there yet, because we still have to get a lot of tools to put together."
"The one thing I do not like about Dynatrace is that their web dashboards are very very slow. They seriously have to improve their web dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts."
"The functionality needs improvement."
"One thing I'm missing and that is the JMX from the MBeans, it's missing completely."
"One thing that I would like to see is for companies like us - large AppMon customers that have a lot of presence in AppMon, a lot of manually configured things and customizations - would be something that would help us be able to make that journey more easily, the transition from to AppMon to Dynatrace."
"The only challenge is that it's an extensive tool that requires a significant amount of time to learn."
"What needs improvement in Dynatrace is its dashboard. Creating dashboards in Dynatrace is good, but compared to Grafana, which is integrated with Broadcom DX APM, the resulting dashboard in Dynatrace isn't as clear. The Dynatrace dashboard needs to be more graphic."
"Having more technical and support resources available in Saudi Arabia would be helpful."
"The improvement would be that SolarWinds NPM thoroughly checks its patches before releasing them to the market. Better testing, alpha testing, and then releasing it to the market."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"The product is scalable, but at a cost. Extra modules have to be purchased for each extra server. The initial set up isn't complex, but will require someone who is experienced with the network monitoring system"
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved. We would like to divide the dashboards to give a clear view to our management team to show what we have and what deficiencies exist in our network."
"Currently lacks integration with SMS services."
"Time: A worldwide deployment can be confusing for dispersed users with non-local times. Each node should have a local time (with summer offset if appropriate) & each user should view & report in their local time."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. 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 SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity.
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