We compared Dynatrace and Splunk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users appreciate Dynatrace's ability to track real users, AI capabilities, proactive feedback, and cost savings. It also provides a comprehensive view of infrastructure topology and microservices interaction. Users find it easy to manage, with a user-friendly interface and scalability. Dynatrace needs improvements in testing modules, cost reduction display, accessibility, user interface, and time zone handling. Despite some difficulties in pricing and licensing, users have seen a positive return on investment with Dynatrace.
"Automatic instrumentation of new services and technology without the need to install specific agents or modules."
"We purchased some coaching sessions and utilized those, which were very useful."
"The User experience monitor is a real added value."
"Dynatrace has designed its agents to capture limited stack traces for each transaction executed."
"For stability, our customers have no complaints."
"Simplified the way to monitor a medium to big environment."
"Through end-user monitoring, we were able to measure the user's perceived performance and build an SLA based on that information."
"The AppMon solution helped the operations guys to pinpoint one problem area and call the specific group, instead of everyone. The mean time to repair and the resource utilization time, they are totally reduced."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"The only challenge is that it's an extensive tool that requires a significant amount of time to learn."
"The business use case is that most people want to see how many orders came in. I'd like to be able to get data out of JavaScript tags, and capture more data. I think that would make it much more useful, rather than using Google Analytics. Instead, have one tool to capture all the stack, that would make it easy."
"I haven't had a chance to go through all of it, but I would like to see the ability, from an administrative standpoint, for it to collect statistics. I want to be able to see the servers that the agents are installed on. I want it to be able to start doing collections for me by platform: How many Linux servers do I have? How many Windows servers do I have? Statistically give me the information of how things are performing, but I want that in a dashboard, where I can look at a dashboard and I can look at a section. So the ability for me to drill down will make it easier for me."
"The extending of Dynatrace with plugins can be better."
"For an easy view of global and entity-specific configurations, a separate tile or pane aggregating these configurations should be implemented."
"Enterprise application monitoring for synthetic, as is, only captures http/https transactions."
"With Linux or Windows, it automatically takes care of everything, so there's no need for you to do any manual config changes. But when it comes to AIX - because I implemented it two weeks back - you have to go back to kind of an AppMon approach, where you instrument agents for .NET applications. So if Dynatrace could make those changes and make it automated, that would be one of the biggest action items."
"Pretty much every month there are new features. However, its information on those new features is scarce."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Splunk APM 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 Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Grafana. See our Dynatrace vs. Splunk APM report.
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