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About 2 years ago
We also selected Dynatrace but for different reasons.   We were looking for a solution that integrated user experience to backend systems. The RUM data captured by Dynatrace and integration to the transaction trace is phenomenal.   Datadog was lacking in the APM space when…
About 2 years ago
We did an evaluation of the top products (Dynatrace, AppD, New Relic, & CA) and have been very happy with our selection of Dynatrace.   The entity relationship mapping along with transaction trace which is leveraged by the AI provides a ton of insight and value.  This has…
About 2 years ago
We did an evaluation that happened to include the 4 options.   Most companies can be successful with any of the solutions. Our selection aligned with the highest rated product, Dynatrace, therefore they appeared to get it right.
Over 2 years ago
Where do you want to spend your money, on people or licenses ELK requires a long-term investment in engineering resources to manage the system and to provide the capability.   Datadog provides capabilities for you so you only need some administrators. What are the…
Over 2 years ago
Server is a rather vague term in these days of virtualization but also gets to the point, context.  If you are monitoring any entity, that entities context in the environment is the most important thing to consider which means you need to understand the role of the "server"…
Over 2 years ago
Each vendor will typically provide a certification for their tool.  I expect this for every vendor.  I'm not aware of a tool agnostic APM certification .... which would be an interesting cert I would love to use when evaluating candidates. 
Over 2 years ago
Our organization is large and has a long history.  We had a lot of on-premise, monolithic applications and tons of business logic included in places it shouldn't be.  This caused a lot of pain to implementing new architectures.  Several years back we implemented new…
Over 2 years ago
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitoring. We maintain critical processing on our mainframe so there was a desire…
About 3 years ago
I'll answer based on my requirements.... Cloud for me is just another platform.  PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, on-premise hosts, VMWare, mainframe, multiple clouds are all part of my problem.  With an APM solution a key capability is transaction trace so I need a common solution across…
About 3 years ago
My experience having done a similar analysis.  considering the 4 top tools from Gartner magic quadrant which includes Broadcom (CA) APM, New Relic, App Dynamics and Dynatrace Dynatrace is the tool we selected.  It has the most robust traceability, simplest…
Over 3 years ago
Replied to Adrian Antonypillai Any advice about APM solutions?
@Adrian Antonypillai Easiest deployments?  this is easily Dynatrace.  You deploy the oneagent on the host and much of the rest is taken care of for you.  There is a lot of automation offered by the solution for deployment and maintenance.  For example, you don't need to…
Over 3 years ago
Replied to Adrian Antonypillai Any advice about APM solutions?
@Adrian Antonypillai There was complexity in implementing AppD and configuring for cloud applications (a private openstack deployment). The team trying to implement the product struggled and was not able to deliver some expected features. This was aside from license issues…
Over 3 years ago
Like all enterprise software, it's all negotiable. What gets at the heart of the question is an ability to estimate the volume. Dynatrace is measured by # of sessions & synthetics One user session costs 0.25 DEM and is measured as a user interacting with a monitored app for…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitoring.  We maintain critical processing on our mainframe so there was a desire…

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