We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and SolarWinds Pingdom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can analyse problems more quickly, and detecting problems becomes easier with Dynatrace."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to perform synthetic checks for monitoring sites using click paths."
"Real time monitoring helps reduce downtime. It saves a lot of time in determining what is the likely cause of an issue an end user may be experiencing."
"We use it, in many instances, to find the root cause in production."
"It is a 100 percent stable solution...Dynatrace is a highly scalable product since it is a SaaS-based application."
"We have not had any stability issues with it at all. This has been the most stable solution that I have worked with."
"Reduces the amount of knowledge that is needed by applications consuming this data."
"Being able to get down to the individual code level to see where transactions are taking time. It has helped troubleshoot issues immensely and other tools can't provide this."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"This solution would be improved with the addition of annotations for automated custom metrics creation."
"On the side of the end user experience, I would suggest adding a new service for analyzing the backtrace of users."
"Perhaps there is a FAQ which explains the metrics and how to interpret them, and I just haven't seen it. This would be beneficial in providing context to allow sharing the daily metrics reported within the company."
"Cloud monitoring and reporting need improvement, as well as how to manipulate data and export it to share with business executives."
"It still has a long way to go to reach that single pane of glass."
"Sometimes it is hard to find the right setting for what you want to change."
"We'd like it to be more user-friendly, which, in our case, might be a big ask as we have a fairly complex environment."
"We had one issue when we tried to enter one agent and it just does not work. We got to work with the highest level of support, but it took a while to get there."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. 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 Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Dynatrace vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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